Is it normal to break a 10 year friendship after one horrible conversation?
I've been friends with Sarah (pseudonym) for 10 years since I was 11, but had become closer over the past 8 months due to her moving within walking distance of me and us struggling with unemployment together. She knows I'm bi-sexual and has never had a problem with it, she even suggested going to some Pride marches together in the summer.
She's recently started going to church a lot and going on overnight trips to the coast with other Christians, which I think is where the problem started. On Thursday I met Sarah and my work colleague in town and it was a normal day of laughter peppered with snowball fights, but when we went to Starbucks to shelter from the blustering wind the mood changed. My colleague brought up an interesting study on hormones in the womb and their effects on sexuality and Sarah suddenly clammed up and looked awkward, before telling us "Well, in my view being gay IS a sin".
I was shocked and and asked why on earth two people being in love was suddenly a sin to her and she went on to say "God made man to be with woman and to be gay is going against God's plan- so it's a sin". She then went on a rant about Jesus and how her faith was in Christ, told me to watch Case for Christ on youtube and started attacking straw-man arguments about Jesus not being real - when I never mentioned Jesus in the first place, it was the homophobic hate speech that disgusted me.
The subject somehow got changed and we walked home together, she acted as if nothing was wrong but I felt an enormous elephant in the room. I've had a lot of missed calls from Sarah the last few days and a few "hey/ how are you"texts, but I can't bring myself to answer them. Is it normal that I feel like after 10 years my respect for her has dropped enormously so quickly? It feels like in the space of one conversation she morphed into an entirely new person? Any thoughts will be appriciated.