Preaching parents transformed by lesbian daughter’s suicide
”We and our entire lives changed as a result of Anna’s death…. After Anna came out, I think I took her spot in the closet.”
TEACH Ministries founders Mary Lou Wallner and husband Bob Wallner, whose estranged lesbian daughter killer herself in 1997, say they have gone from seeing gays and lesbians as having a troubled lifestyle to figthing for their acceptance and strong supporters of P-FLAG. (Missourian)
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