I was going to youth group once a week and church every Sunday, tithing, volunteering with the church, doing all the things.

One week at Bible study I got in an argument with the your pastor about his view on gay marriage. He couldn't answer me about why we follow the rules about homosexuality so closely but dismissed other rules... I left that week in tears and didn't go back to youth group for a few weeks because I was so incensed. A month later the bastard was arrested for child pornography. On his work computer. In the church.

Hypocrisy layered, on top of hypocrisy, and the principal of love totally lacking from the message.

I never returned to church again, except for Christmas Eve services with my mom and grandparents (and still not to that church)