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Dear Christian-friends-who-are-more-conservative-on-matters-of-sexuality: I want to offer you an account of a painful experience, and share how you might consider supporting your LGBT+ Christian friends. A personal thread🧵:
I sometimes try to share snapshots of my experience as an LGBT+ evangelical Christian, on a one-to-one basis, with those who are more conservative on sexuality, especially my leaders. I try to explain what it feels like to read particular statements or hear certain messages.
I’m thankful for relationships of mutual respect that allow me to do so, and the deeper understanding built as we share painful experiences. For this reason, I don’t often do it on Twitter.
Saw a closeted Christian rockstar friend of mine while I was in Nashville last week, and my heart is just broken for them. I love them so much. And I’m also pissed off. There is a dark cloud over the Christian music industry, and several things anger me about all of this...
1. People who work with him and don’t have a relationship with me anymore know he is gay or convince themselves that he struggles with “same sex attraction”, but as long as he don’t say those words and they all pretend he’s not, they work together and they can love him.
2. The Christian music industry thrives in hiding things that are supposedly wrong and make it all taboo. If this person would come out it could change countless lives & possibly force the Christian music industry to change or crumble. Either one would be a positive step forward.
"Black & white" dogma has harmed so many #faithfullyLGBT folks (and even straight / #exvangelical peeps too) so it's understandable to avoid ANY of that rhetoric, but some things *are* really bad and the harm comes not from binary language but from not naming that
Racism is bad.
Transphobia is bad.
Sexism is bad.
Homo/bi/queerphobia is bad.
We can have grace *for people* and be clear about the *impact of action*
Transphobia is bad.
Sexism is bad.
Homo/bi/queerphobia is bad.
We can have grace *for people* and be clear about the *impact of action*
Even the Bible (at risk of being a cherry-picker like evangelicals) admonishes against this "middle ground" sometimes: "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth." - Revelation 3:16
Several of us have been chatting about “cancel culture” and speculating as to its origins, acknowledging damage done by this type of engagement.
I would like to offer some thoughts on what I believe to be the formative soil of this culture in hopes of softening our posture. 1/
I would like to offer some thoughts on what I believe to be the formative soil of this culture in hopes of softening our posture. 1/
Those of us who share this space and engage with one another typically overlap in one of the following areas:
•progressive politic
•background in the Christian faith
•LGBTQ+ experience or allyship
We gravitate towards one another in this virtual space due to shared POV.
•progressive politic
•background in the Christian faith
•LGBTQ+ experience or allyship
We gravitate towards one another in this virtual space due to shared POV.
However, for those of us who share a faith background AND identify as LGBTQ+, there is a certain repetitive trauma that fuels “cancel culture” that we might be may be missing entirely in our efforts to be well-read, well-liked, or understood.
Hi new followers!
I imagine you’re here because you also were also touched by Rachel’s life in some way.
I am a life coach (see @TheChristianCL), content creator, and small biz owner living in Denver.
I write about identity, integration, & what it means to be beloved by God.
I imagine you’re here because you also were also touched by Rachel’s life in some way.
I am a life coach (see @TheChristianCL), content creator, and small biz owner living in Denver.
I write about identity, integration, & what it means to be beloved by God.
I wanted to introduce myself, because if this space has taught me anything, it’s that we are all connected.
There are no strangers here; we all belong to each other. Over the past 24+ hours, we carved out a space to grieve and process together.
Thank you for holding space. đź’™
There are no strangers here; we all belong to each other. Over the past 24+ hours, we carved out a space to grieve and process together.
Thank you for holding space. đź’™
If you came here because you also belong to the #FaithfullyLGBT family, here is a thread I wrote a while back about that experience.
One of the biggest and ongoing challenges, for me, of fully stepping into a new space as someone who is #faithfullyLGBT is to ensure that I am not merely trading one “us/them” tribe for another.
Dehumanization is not a practice exclusively reserved for evangelical spaces. It happens on both sides of the political, theological, and ideological divide and I am daily mindful of whether or not I am perpetuating the dehumanization of someone I do not agree with.
I do not get a “free pass” to treat someone as less than human merely because I have been treated that way before.
Rather, I am even more responsible for my words and actions because I know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of ill-intended words.
Rather, I am even more responsible for my words and actions because I know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of ill-intended words.
TW. Abuse, child abuse, ableism, 'discipline'
This is the last (part 6) of my live-tweet threads about To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl, also talking openly about my own experience.
Mute if appropriate.
This is the last (part 6) of my live-tweet threads about To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl, also talking openly about my own experience.
Mute if appropriate.
The previous thread is here:
At the end of my last thread, I said a few things that I want to clarify first up.
I said that I never wanted the family to be separated as if staying together is the goal. That was quite a selfish way of speaking.
I said that I never wanted the family to be separated as if staying together is the goal. That was quite a selfish way of speaking.
I like to think that the fact that evangelical Christians assume that the opposite of purity culture is a 24/7 lascivious sexual smorgasbord says more about them than it does about any of us lol
I have THINGS TO SAY about this and about the idea of pleasure as a useful moral guide but I just got home and I am very hungry so I need to make soup first
Okay I made soup and yes it is as delicious as it looks and I thought about this while I was making it and here is the thing: 
Conservative friends, affirming friends, and LGBTQ fam - this one's for you. I share my journey and why Pride is so important to the community it celebrates.
nomoreordinary.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/why…
nomoreordinary.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/why…
An excerpt: "What Pride is really about is restoring human dignity, celebrating belonging, and championing honesty and authenticity over closeted darkness." Can I get an amen?
"Pride is a reclaiming; a declaration that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that no one can refute or diminish that Divine and blessed truth." #FaithfullyLGBT
