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My name is Jeff. I have never been an official member of any church. My mother is a member of one church and my father a member of a different church; both Baptists. Sometimes one will go to the other's church on Sundays. When I was young, I would usually be taken to my mother's church. When I was about 12 or 13 years old, I stopped going to church partly because of a lack of interest. There's a lot more to it than that but it is irrelevant to this story. I am a student at NC State University. I started during the summer a few years ago. When I moved here I desperately wanted to meet some nice, intelligent people and make some, hopefully, lifelong friends. I never really had any before that time and I guess that made me vulnerable. That summer, one of the first people I met was Jeff E., who was (and probably still is) a member of Triangle Church. Jeff and all of his friends asked me if I wanted to go to church and bible study with them, but I politely declined. I noticed they all seemed to be using the same "lines" on me. It seemed very strange and I just had a feeling that I shouldn't go. I don't care much for church or religion anyway. I always thought they were weird but I had no idea about them until I read the pages on this web site. Let's fast forward to the summer of the next year. I was living in a frat house. I wasn't a fraternity member. I was only renting a room for the summer. It just so happened that Jeff E. was renting a summer room in the frat house next door. One day, he asked me if I wanted to buy a ticket to and ride along with him to King's Dominion, an amusement park in Virginia. He told me that two other people would also be riding along. From what I understood, the tickets were being sold through a local business and not the church. I couldn't refuse half price tickets that also included lunch so I went. I didn't know that many, many college members of the church, if not all of them, would be going too. I go to King's Dominion a lot. I know my way around the park pretty well. When we got there, we somehow got into a group of about 8 or 10 people and they wanted me to lead them around the park and be their "Jesus" as some girl in the group put it. I can't even describe the feeling I got when I heard that. Some time before lunch, we stopped to rest at the Eiffel Tower. Someone in our group noticed a group of maybe 3 or 4 men hand-holding, hugging, and some of them kissing. That person in our group commented about it. Then I said to everyone, "You haven't noticed it's 'red shirt day'?". Then they all started looking around and seeing gay and lesbian couples and groups, many of whom were wearing red shirts. I noticed it as soon as we got there that morning but I didn't say anything. Of all the days Triangle Church should go to King's Dominion, it happened on "Gay Day". For the rest of the day they talked and stared and talked and stared some more. Some of them refused to believe that these groups of people in red shirts were gay even when it was so obvious. I wanted so badly to point out things to them like "hey look at those bull dikes" or "there goes a bottom boy and his top daddy" but I didn't. Strangely, no one from NCSU was wearing the school colors of red and white. In the back of my mind I was laughing one of those mad scientist/ criminally insane laughs. It was divine. On the way back home we stopped at a gas station. I made the mistake of buying a couple of lottery tickets. They did NOT like that at all and I felt really bad. Then there was that criminally insane laugh again and everything was OK. Recently, I heard someone say they saw a news report about Triangle Church being a cult. That led me to do do a web search which led me to this. Like I said before, I had no idea. There are more stories where this one came from but they will have to wait as I am on the floor in a fit of, you guessed it, criminally insane laughter.
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