Jock2Go:
Where were you born / raised?
LoveNotJudge:
Born in Cleveland, I grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. My mother was a divorced mother with a deadbeat husband and 3 young children to take care of alone. In the second grade, I moved into house where my step father was like the Archie Bunker of the South. His father was a Baptist minister so every time the church doors were open, we were there. I witnessed brutal domestic violence against my mother for years often before and after we had to kneel by his bedside to pray... "the family that prays together, stays together). He was a fierce Jesse Helms type Republican and part of what today is America's GOP Religious Right Wing. The words behind closed doors are similar to the ones today that are said - Ni*ger, Fa*got or Qu*er, Cu*t, or The Mexicans. Women are subservient to men and ironically, the Catholic Church and GOP RRW have much in common which is why Pence/Pete slid $3 Billion in PPP loan money to The Pope and forgave it without Trump knowing it. As a devout Believer in loving, uniting for the common good, forgiving in order to be forgiven and not judging, I am reluctant to say I am a Christian. They will know we are Christians by our love, not hate like some do.