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Jessica Alba Threw Religion "Right Out The Window" Over Church's Anti-Gay Teachings

Jessica Alba, currently tearing it up in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, spoke with The Daily Beast this week about her reasons for abandoning religion.

She grew up Catholic and later converted to Evangelicalism, but walked away from organized religion altogether because of her church's condemnation of homosexuality.

As Alba explains it, it all came together when she was young and in love:

I fell in love when I was 16 and had this major crush on… I guess he was a drag queen? He was bisexual and a ballerina, and this was while I was at the Atlantic Theater Company in Vermont.

We used to go to this gay club and I’d dance with him all night, four nights a week. I was so in love with him and thought, “There’s no way this guy’s going to hell,” because in my church, it was, “Anybody who’s gay is going to hell” and “Premarital sex is evil,” and I thought, “There’s no chance! This guy is amazing!”

So that went right out the window.

She added it was that kind of anti-gay rhetoric that made her throw religion "right out the window."

h/t: GLAAD

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