I have some other questions that kind of pertain to the one that I just asked. I have a very close gay friend. We have been best friends for many years. We trust each other in everything. We are like two inseparable sixth graders. Part of the chemistry of this friendship comes from the fact that he is gay so there are no complications or misunderstandings that would result from an opposite sex friendship.

I told him that I was ok with his being gay b/c he has said repeatedly that it is part of himself that was innate. He explained that he has been attracted to men since childhood and also I know that my showing disapproval of his sexuality would ultimately be interpreted by him as saying that I disapproved of him.

I don't know how to not be complicit in this sin and still accept him. This is a very valuable friendship to me and to him. We find all the same things funny and I can tell him almost anything, but he is so sensitive and easily wounded that I think I would do some real damage by saying that.

So that issue is related to the other one to some degree. Getting back to my job though. Many of the women practice witchcraft and the tarot. I had some very severe problems related to both of those practices. I told them it was like talking to the devil and that visualization meditations make you vulnerable. I was highly unsuccessful in convincing them and it took alot of courage to speak up. Their reaction was to 1) See me as someone who was highly irrational and therefore, easy to dismiss. 2) See me as a psychological cripple that cannot be vulnerable and open. One of them told me in a certain tone, as if I was simply ignorant and childish, that it was important to be vulnerable. They did not take anything from my warning since they could not get past their biases. A younger one seems to get more and more into it, as if my words only prompted her to study it more deeply. I feel stuck in this job, as I have fallen into a deep depression.