“Ex-lesbian” Melissa Fryrear, of Colorado Springs, spent last Saturday at a church in Trucksville, Pennsylvania, answering questions from Christians with gay family members.

Fryrear said “everyone is created heterosexual” and said many women are gay because they’re searching for a mother figure or because they have been sexually abused by a man. She said some women are gay because it’s “en vogue.”

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Fryrear, a middle-aged woman originally from Louisville, Ky., said that as a teenager she knew she was a lesbian and “closed her heart to God” when she read a Bible passage that says, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.”

“I thought God was saying Melissa (Fryrear) was detestable,” she said, noting she had her first lesbian relationship at 16.

“I was unwilling to resist the draw and the temptation.”

After college, Fryrear said she began attending church again and stopped her lesbian relationships. She said she and her girlfriend were treated by her church with “kindness and friendliness.”

She said the church decided to take her in just as they have taken in other “sinners.”

Fryrear said Christians should embrace gays by “not just telling them what is wrong, but by inviting them into our family, our church.”

During a question and answer session, Fryrear appeared to become uncomfortable when a reporter asked her what her sexual orientation is now and if she still has sexual urges for women.

“Without question, I’m attracted to men, particularly tall men with red hair,” said Fryrear with a nervous laugh. “Does an alcoholic ever think about having a drink again? … Thoughts may come into my mind.”

All the way from Colorado Springs to Trucksville, Pennsylvania, for this. I guess you’ve got to find things to do with the time a straight woman would use to have sex with men.