“I mean, it’s interesting to think of it this way. I haven’t ever really, before.” “To think of what?” Lydia asked. “Homosexuality,” I said. “There’s no such thing as homosexuality,” she said. “Homosexuality is a myth perpetuated by the so-called gay rights movement.” She spaced out each word of her next sentence. “There is no gay identity; it does not exist. Instead, there is only the same struggle with sinful desires and behaviors that we, as God’s children, each must contend with.”

