Whenever I see a queer invalidate another queer's relationship with god, I just get disappointed. "We need more complex queers!" You can't even handle religious queer people.
If you think that abandoning faith is the only solution to religious traumas, I'm REALLY fucking sorry to say you have a very small worldview. Maybe YOU gain comfort from disowning god, but others will redefine their faith to accommodate their queerness.
It is so incredibly difficult to word how complex faith is, there's a lot I could say.. But I guess to set the record straight, queer religious folk AREN'T your enemy. A queer religious person likely gets treated like shit just like you do, except now you're putting them into a position where they're simultaneously getting shit on by bigoted religious people AND the queer community that's supposedly oh so accepting of them.
This isn't even touching on how tunnel visioned you are that you forget how broad religion is in the first place. You guys DO know that when someone says "god", they might not be referring to the Christian god.. Right?? RIGHT?? (which is implying that major religions like christianity even have consistently AMONGST THEMSELVES like holy fuck they can't even agree on what day you're meant to go to church and what calendar is correct)
Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you Christian queers. I love you Muslim queers. I love you Jewish queers. I love you religious queers that fall outside the abrahamic religions: Taoists, Buddhists, Hindus.. I love you religious queers whose religion is too niche or unappreciated to ever come up. I love you religious queers who have many gods or no gods. I love you indigenous queers.
If you think religion is completely incompatible with queerness then fuck off, this isn't the blog for you.
gay rights includes the right to religion
THIS.
