What do you do if you are an evangelical Christian, politically conservative AND transgender? Evangelical Christians are often attacked by the Left.
Equally important are the efforts to help the.
It\'s a difficult and often emotionally exhausting ministry. just as they are.
Now Laurie reaches out to Christians who are transgender, who are still struggling to believe God loves them for who they are...
But, in fact, He was the first to accept me.
I thought God would be the first to reject me.
Since that day, God has led her on a path to heal her deep wounds of rejection by family as well as other Christians, and Make peace with the way she was created.
Who would even want to stop me? Wouldn\'t it be easier for everyone this way? It was at that desperate crossroad she heard the voice of God simply say, You\'re okay.
Raised with a doctrine she believed condemned her, she decided the only way out of her constant misery was to end her life.
But she knew there was no keeping it from God.
So, she kept her secret from everyone.
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She knew if her true identity became known, she would lose everything.
And eventually even a good husband.
A good Christian.
She became a good son.
She had no choice but to keep up the pretense and keep it a secret. and there was no one who could understand.
She was a living, breathing dichotomy...
In God Doesn\'t Make Mistakes: Confessions of a Transgender Christian Laurie tells her story of growing up playing a role as unnatural to her as the body she was born with.
A journey she barely survived.
Raised in a devoutly Christian home, she endured the unbelievably difficult and complicated odyssey of finding her identity as a woman ...without losing her identity in Christ.
She is, indeed, both an evangelical Christian and transgender.
Meet Laurie Suzanne Scott.
Rejected by Christians for being transgender.
But what happens to the people who are scorned by both sides? Shut out by the Left for their conservative views.
The growing divide between the political, ideological Left vs Right and Religious vs Secularist is so sharp that even attempting to bridge the gap is a perilous endeavor.
There is a struggle going on in our culture that produces more victims than champions--we all seem to agree on that.
It\'s human nature to align with those who share our world view, and dismiss those who don\'t.
People who are Transgender are often attacked by the Right.
What do you do if you are an evangelical Christian, politically conservative AND transgender? Evangelical Christians are often attacked by the Left
