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Transition Radio Industries September 2012
Transition Radio Industries September 2012
After spending 60 years living what most Southern Baptists would consider a “normal life” which included marrying and raising four children, Lou Anne Smoot faced a painful truth about herself--she was homosexual.
This retired public school teacher, holder of two college degrees, mother of four, grandmother of six, and Baptist Sunday School teacher, courageously changed her life in the direction she felt God was “prodding” her to go. Despite the uncomfortableness of remaining a member of her Baptist church when she divorced and began “coming out,” she remained faithful to God and to her church at a time when most homosexuals her age either remained “in the closet” or turned their backs on the churches that seemed to turn their backs on them.
Lou Anne is now an activist for gay rights and was awarded the 2010 Project TAG (Tyler Area Gays) Advocate of the Year Award. She published her “brutally honest” story, “A Christian Coming Out, A Journal of the Darkest Period in My Life” in 2013 and has been busy speaking and sharing how God has moved in her life.
This retired public school teacher, holder of two college degrees, mother of four, grandmother of six, and Baptist Sunday School teacher, courageously changed her life in the direction she felt God was “prodding” her to go. Despite the uncomfortableness of remaining a member of her Baptist church when she divorced and began “coming out,” she remained faithful to God and to her church at a time when most homosexuals her age either remained “in the closet” or turned their backs on the churches that seemed to turn their backs on them.
Lou Anne is now an activist for gay rights and was awarded the 2010 Project TAG (Tyler Area Gays) Advocate of the Year Award. She published her “brutally honest” story, “A Christian Coming Out, A Journal of the Darkest Period in My Life” in 2013 and has been busy speaking and sharing how God has moved in her life.
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