We have an admission: we're in love with an Evangelical. Yes, we know we've given the Evans some shit in the past, but that's because so many of them are pricks. Not Mary Lou Wallner. She's a fucking bad-ass bitch hell bent on rectifying the monster movement's wrongs. The rebellious religionist's firmly aligned against the clamorous Christian's homo-hating ways. But the Little Rock, Arkansas-based activist hasn't always been so inclusive.

When her daughter Anna Wakefield came out of the closet, Wallner wrote her a letter in which she said:

I will never accept that in you. I feel it's a terrible waste, besides being spiritually and morally wrong. For a reason that I don't quite fathom, I have a harder time dealing with that issue than almost anything in the world.

Wakefield offed herself soon after. Reeling from the death of her daughter, Wallner had a spiritual awakening and in an effort to combat homophobia among her peers, she founded To Educate About the Consequences of Homophobia (TEACH) to, well, provide a little pro-gay pedagogy.

Not surprisingly, Wallner's come up against some resistance of her own, even within her own family. Sitting down with Nerve's fantastically named Reverend Astrid Storm, Wallner laments:

No one in my family, really, except my husband. My ex-husband, daughter, son-in-law — they all think I'm completely wrong in this. It really hurts. And they all live in a small rural area within two miles of each other, so I don't have many hopes for them changing their minds.

But at least there's women like Wallner fighting the good fight. Even if she's not making that much progress, she's certainly getting a lot of positive attention outside the movement: she's featured in Daniel Karslake's For the Bible Tells Me So, a Sundance selected documentary about five Christian families and their gay off-spring. So not only is she a rabel-rouser, she's a movie star!

Mary Lou Wallner, we want your babies! Okay, well, maybe not babies (first, we don't like children and second we don't know how that'd work out), but we think you're pretty fucking radical.