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Was I in the wrong?

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So to give you a quick background, I'm 17 years old, senior year in highschool, and live in Utah. I was born and raised into the church with two very strict TBM parents. I've never really believed in it growing up as a kid. When I was about 16 I realized that I might be bisexual cause I sometimes thought other guys I knew were cute. My parents always taught me that being gay was a mental disability, and should not be acted upon. My dad especially brings this topic a lot, I started to distance myself from my dad because whenever I talk to him, he always finds a way to talk about the church which I don't enjoy. I think my dad's started to notice that I'm purposefully avoiding him so just a couple weeks ago, he always forces me to read scriptures with him every night and asks me what I thought about it. I woke up this morning and went to my part time job, I took someone's shift that day adding it onto mine so I worked a good 12 hours so when I got home it was about 11pm and I was SO ready to go to bed. Then I see my dad and he tells me we're going to read the Scriptures. I was pissed off but I didn't want to show it or we would have gotten into a long argument. I sat down listening to him read and talk for almost half an hour, and then he asked me what I thought about the scripture. I was kind of tired and I didn't listen to almost half of what he said so I gave him a really dry response. I just told him, "Yeah, that's super cool" and nothing else. I noticed he looked a little sad when I didn't contribute a lot to the conversation. I felt kind of guilty, maybe I should have at least pretended to show interest? I don't know, I was just mad and tired, was I wrong to treat my dad like this?

Posted Sep 13, 2026, 6:16 AM UTC

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