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21 " The college allows students of different races to date now, but the place is permeated with an air of cheerful fascism. "
― Aaron Hartzler , Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family
22 " I might’ve been able to fool other people into thinking I believed, but the God I was raised with knew my every thought, so there was no fooling him. In the end, it felt disrespectful to pretend. "
23 " Eventually, I realized that social justice, kindness, and honesty didn’t have to come from the theology in which I’d been raised. In fact, not believing that there was some great guiding hand made it even more imperative to help others. "
24 " This is not a place where theater is a tool for telling stories about God. This is a stage where the craft of theater is foremost, and used with reverence for telling the stories of humanity, stories where an audience member can see himself in a character on the stage and know he is not alone. "
25 " A pervasive misconception about sexual orientation doggedly clings to the conversation about being LGBT in our current culture: that one’s sexual orientation is defined by specific sexual acts. But being gay isn’t only about sex. Being gay is an intrinsic part of who I am. It’s all over this book—in every scene—for the simple reason that I’m in every scene. "