Christian Karen Confronts Two Kids She Presumes are Gay in a Restaurant

Woman’s cringe-worthy evangelism fail goes viral

Dan Foster
Backyard Church
Published in
7 min readDec 11, 2021

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Imagine for a moment that you’re a teenager again. You are basking in the glory of the fact that it's the weekend. You decide to do what many teenagers do. You ring up your best friend, who also happens to be your cousin, and arrange to catch up and hang out at your local fast-food restaurant.

You order fries and milkshakes.

You make yourself at home in a cozy booth.

You are happily chatting away— minding your own business.

Suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you notice a middle-aged woman — let’s call her Karen — staring at you and your cousin. You brush it off, try to ignore it, but the staring doesn’t stop. In fact, it intensifies. There is no doubt about it; You are being watched.

And then it happens.

This woman who you’ve never seen before in your life walks over to your table and starts a conversation with you.

Uninvited.

It turns out that this woman is a born-again Christian, and apparently, God has told her to come over to talk to you. She has come over to investigate whether you and your friend are on a date of the… you know……

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Dan Foster
Backyard Church

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