There is a woman i have worked with in the second half of the year for 2 years. She's a bit of a tomboy, in her early 40's perhaps, and i've always thought she was nice.This year i found out she was gay. That didn't alter my opinion of her at all, and if anything our work relationship progressed. She could talk about gay/woman related stuff around me, About her new girlfriend etc, and i thought, as friends, things were coming along nicely. Nicely enough that i thought we'd still be chatty after our seasonal work had ended.
But i was wrong.
One day she walked past and noticed me working in the local Christian book shop, and she seemed a bit taken back.
Since then she seems to have gone out of her way NOT to talk to me.
Ok, so i'm one of those born again Christian types. She's worked with me for 2 years and talked openly about being gay, and i haven't made any sign of judging her or even disapproving.
What she does in her bedroom is none of my business. I value her as a person and it's not my job to pass judgement on her for anything she does. Just as it's not anyone elses job to pass judgement on me for anything i do.
Yet she seems to have done the very same thing to me, that gay people hate the most.
Maybe she's had a bad run in with Christians in the past? I dunno. But i thought we might have got to a point where she could say that.
It's very sad that we couldn't be friends..very sad!
