Steve Bunting

Like, you know, homosexuality is a sin and that you were going to go to hell.

And I remember me and my brother looking at each other confused because this happened to us.

We didn't get a vote, but a guy did stuff to us that classified as the things they were teaching in church.

And me and him would be like, dude, we're going to hell, right?

Are you serious?

Yeah, man.

You thought you were going to hell because somebody had sexually abused you?

Yeah, man, because there's zero tolerance there, right?

It's like very, it's Pentecostal hard south.

It's black and white.

There's no wiggle room.

And it caused me a lot of distress, man.

I would pray every night before I went to bed begging for forgiveness because I thought I was going to burn in hell because of what happened to me.

And I beat myself up.

It caused a lot of issues for me.

A lot of insecurities affected my relationships.

That's what I want to say.

If anyone's experienced this or they're experiencing it, it's not your fault.

It's not your fault at all.

It doesn't say who you are.