Water Dog wrote:JLHPROF wrote:According to the podcast they did tell her what to say. Well, at least they helped her write a couple of drafts to get the final product.
But apparently the whole thing was her idea.
podcast?
http://iliketolookforrainbows.com/2017/ ... ahs-story/
for what it's worth, here's a summary of her speech:
Hi my name is Savannah, and I want to share my testimony with you.
I believe I am a child of heavenly parents.
I don't know if they talk to us
but I feel in my heart that they made me and that they love me.
I believe I was made the way I am, all parts of me, by my heavenly parents.
They did not mess up when they gave me brown eyes or when I was born bald.
They did not mess up when they gave me freckles or when they made me to be gay.
God loves me just this way, because I believe that he loves all his creations.
I do believe he made me this way on purpose.
No part of me is a mistake.
I do not choose to be this way, and it is not a fad.
I cannot make someone else gay and being around me won't make anyone else this way.
I believe that God wants us to treat each other with kindness, even if people are different.
Especially if they are different.
Christ showed us this.
I believe that we should just love.
I believe I am good.
I try my best to be nice to each other and stick up for those that are hurting.
I know I'm not a horrible sinner for being who I am.
I believe God would tell me if I was wrong.
I hope someday to go on dates, go to school dances, to hold hands, to go off to college.
I hope to find a partner and have a great job.
I hope to get married and have a family.
I know these dreams and wishes are good and right.
I know I can have all of these things as a lesbian and be happy.
I believe that if God is there, he knows I am perfect, just the way I am.
and would never ask me to live my life alone or with someone I am not attracted to.
He would want me to be happy.
I want to be happy.
I want to love myself and not to feel shame for being me.