The soccer star discussed overcoming her traumatic church upbringing on wife Glennon Doyle's podcast.
,” Abby Wambach talked about her experience with religion and being gay. While it wasn’t always easy to grapple with God, the church and queerness, Wambach admits she’s facing her past trauma with religion.
“Sadly, we stopped being friends after this moment,” she said. “I understood that I had a choice to make. And it was I was either going to choose me or God … I chose myself.” “You see Jesus as a reason to fight for the underdog,” Wambach said to Doyle. “One thing that you’ve been able to give me is almost like a dictionary at how to read through some of the BS.”
But Doyle admitted that she, too, has struggled. She felt Jesus stood for one thing but how churches acted seemed to be different and those differences made a huge impact on LGBTQ people.