Actress Jessica Alba turned her back on the Christian church she attended as a teen because elders didn’t approve of her crush on a bisexual dancer.
The Sin City beauty was raised a Catholic but converted to Evangelicalism, where she quickly realised she didn’t agree with the Church’s firm stance on homosexuality and premarital sex.
In a new interview with The Daily Beast, Alba recalls upsetting her friends and leaders in the Christian youth group she was involved in as a teenager. She reveals, “It was very twisted. I fell in love when I was 16 and had this major crush on… I guess he was a drag queen. He was bisexual and a ballerina, and this was while I was at the Atlantic Theater Company in Vermont.
“We used to go to this gay club and I’d dance with him all night, four nights a week. I was so in love with him and thought, ‘There’s no way this guy’s going to hell,’ because in my church, it was, ‘Anybody who’s gay is going to hell’ and ‘Premarital sex is evil’, and I thought, ‘There’s no chance! This guy is amazing!’ So that went right out the window.”
Alba has previously stated that her experience in both churches led her to abandon organized religion all together in favour of a more spiritual experience.
That’s great. We’ve been on this boat since. Welcome on board.
Hheeheehee. The newbie that she is
Why don’t you tell us how you really feel, Ken…
blah … blah … blah … blah … yabbidy yabbidy … yadada #brokenrecord scratchedCDsqueal#
What’s the difference between the two tho… Organised religion and a more spiritual experience
“Finally someone with brains?”
Oh dear gawd, I’m in an organised religion, i must have bricks in my head.
You don’t say… An actual church WANTS to conduct gay marriage?
Yupperino.
http://time.com/79734/united-church-of-christ-sues-north-carolina-to-allow-gay-marriage/
Read. I’m astonished. Lol. That is one heck of a liberal lot.
Not all are conservatives. 😀
Apparently so. For UCC not only to file a suit, but to reach out to other parishioners… Lol. Wow.
It’s encouraging right? To know that the blowhards on FOXNews aren’t it? If they were, there’d be no way I’d still be Christian!
UCC’s present is the future we gay Nigerians are praying for in our churches over here. An unfortunately faraway future.
Sadly, that future is far away for other churches here in the states as well.
Religion incorporates public rituals, doctrines anr generally fictious ridiculous stories. Spirituality is more personal and private.
Jesus was actually spiritual not religious. Notice how he emphasized common sense over what was contained in the books?
Awww so sad..sweetheart u bettter go back to God ooo coz there is one God only and whether you like it or not He created you and loves you big time!!!
Finally someone with brains. Religion is useless irrelevant and stupid.Useless fantasy concocted to suppress and oppress the weak and dull
Na she sabi.
@Kendigin, my thoughts exactly, organised religion is a truckload of false bullshit, propped up by fairytales (the old testament) designed to manipulate and control those too scared to liberate their minds. I abandoned it in favour of a more spiritual experience – no regrets whatsoever!! Nothing can equate the mental growth and maturity that liberation from false religious bonds brings!!
Hm she could have just gone to a different denomination. Like a UCC. They are currently suing for the right to perform gay marriage because marriage is a religious institution and the government shouldn’t be able to regulate religious tradition.