Empress Dee

I was basically interrogated about my sex life to qualify for baptism in Assemblies of God. I was a MINOR and was told that if I wasn’t baptized, I would not go into higher institution. After 3 MONTHS of baptism classes, we had to appear before elders for a baptismal interview. If you failed, you would not be baptized. They asked if I had started having sex, if I had a boyfriend, if I watched porn and if I had ever stolen. They even asked for my phone so they could go through it. I had left mine at home charging. The disappointment on their faces when I said this was something else. A married woman was asked if she had cheated on her husband, how many boyfriends she had before marriage and if she had visited a native doctor. We had a manual. Guess what they barely asked about? The manual. Even as a child, I was irritated. Looking back, I still wonder: what exactly did my sex life have to do with baptism? Pentecostal churches should do better.

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