"How could I get aroused in the presence of one of the world's leading homophobes? I swear, if I was with any other man in the world, I would be certain that I was being seduced..." It's hard growing up a closeted gay man in a small, rural community in Central Florida. One of the people who made Cory Anderson particularly miserable? Their severely homophobic local pastor Dick Morrison, who was known to use the pulpit as a stage for his tirades against 'the abomination' of homosexuality. Cory knew early on that he had to get out of town. He came out to his parents, and then made a life for himself as a successful stock broker in New York City. He still returns home on holidays, where his ashamed parents have kept his coming out to themselves. He still attends the Sunday service with them and still sits through Pastor Morrison's ranting. But his past in Florida is something he can always escape. That is, until it comes to visit him in New York. Pastor Morrison insists on meeting with him for dinner while he is in town for a conference. And an older, bolder Cory is determined to let the pastor know, once and for all, that he's a gay man and there is nothing wrong with that. He plans to come out to the pastor over dinner. But things never go according to plan, and the Pastor's got a big revelation of his own to make, one that would shock Cory to the core...
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