Is it normal to hate yourself because of your sexual orientation?
I've been raised in church all my life. My parents are strict baptist fundamentalists and they drag me to church with them 3 times a week. When I said something about it they pretty much said "get over it or get out of the house".
For a very long time, I've been attracted to other guys. Not in a relationship way, but in a "He's hot" kind of way. I feel the same way about women. Until recently, I always just supressed it and ignored it, but I feel like it's something I need to confront. I've never talked about this with anyone, mainly because I don't have anyone I could trust with it.
I'm not really sure what I believe anymore. I believe that if there is a God out there, he knew I would be this way. Even if I wanted to, I don't think I could change it any more than I could change my skin color or eye color. At the same time, it goes against everything I was taught to believe in and I feel disgusted with myself.
There's a lot of things I don't agree with in the church and I feel like I need to decide for myself what I believe even if it means breaking away, but I don't really know how.
My parents would never accept me for who I am because of this, among other things (if they knew what was on my iPod they'd probably throw me out over that alone). I've thought about coming out to my one and only best friend, but I don't know if there's any point in it.
Is it normal to feel this conflicted about one's sexuality?