Every church I went to since I was seven talked about gays burning in hell. Gay people were always talked about as a great societal evil, moving behind the scenes to manipulate the media, movies, music, politics, everything to persuade more people to become gay. They were a social movement to be actively combated I was taught.
This isn't just one church either, this was all the churches I was in from seven till I stopped going to church in my 30's, small towns to big cities. EDIT: Probably at least 8 different ones.
Not every church is like that, but they're not unicorns either; they're common enough.
EDIT2: I'm wrong, one of the last churches I went to had a much more liberal view on homosexuality.
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