(Worthy Insights) – At 13 years of age, Michael Myrand’s father committed suicide without embracing or affirming him. Then a kid at school blamed Michael for his father’s death, telling him, “Your dad killed himself because you’re a {gay slur}.”
Abuse and rejection by boys from kindergarten through high school only reinforced Myrand’s pain and feelings of abandonment growing up without his dad in Michigan, where he lived with his praying mother.
In high school, Myrand became friends with a girl who identified as bisexual. She introduced him to people who, for the first time, accepted him. “I’m getting attention from men. Boys are flirting with me, and I’m liking it. I concluded that I must be gay,” Myrand told a crowd in Oregon on Saturday.
Rejecting LGBTQ identities to follow Jesus, men and women from across the nation gathered in Portland to evangelize, worship, pray and testify at the 14th annual Freedom March, organized by Rainbow Revival. [ Source (Read More…) ]