The Thousand-Petaled Lotus

If you grew up in Nashville, Tennesseethe Buckle of the Bible Beltin the 1960s and had parents who were staunch Southern Baptists, your upbringing likely was strict and quite regimentedSunday school, church, weekday prayer meetings, and numerous rules for being a well-behaved child. If you happened to be "metaphysically minded," navigating your teen years in such an environment was probably tricky at best. And if you also happened to be homosexual, life was most likely rather challenging. The Th