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Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.

—FLANNERY O’CONNOR, “REVELATION”

If I’m looking at that wall and suddenly I say, “It’s blue,” and someone else comes along and says, “No, no. It’s gold.” But I want to believe that that wall is blue. It’s blue, it’s blue, it’s blue. But then God comes along, and He says, “You’re right, John, it is blue.” That’s the help I need. God can help me make that wall blue.

—EX-GAY LEADER JOHN SMID, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE Memphis Flyer