I applaud you for coming out to yourself and to this community, and I hope that your coming out to your friends will be a positive experience. Iknow a lot of people, may not understand how one can come out as other-than-standard-heterosexual and still be a part of one's faith, but I can empathize. I am an openly gay male and openly Christian (just on the progressive side of the Christian spectrum). There are a greater number of people of faith who also identify as somehow "queer." I hope you can also find those connections in your own life.