Coming Out to the Church

Confession

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:25:05 -0400

One of the reasons I suck at writing new content regularly is because I don’t check tags anymore now that they’re hidden. So I don’t see #gaychristian posts and don’t get inspired. Does that make me lazy? (I even have a post I want to write, but I haven’t made the time to do it. Plus I have like 40 drafts…) Sorry.

he’s so beautiful. really just because he loves Jesus, is...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400

he’s so beautiful. really just because he loves Jesus, is charismatic, and can play guitar/sing. his songs are like… really good.

like, i don’t know anything about him, but i would marry him so hard. can we please make out?

“…Christians are now divided over two different...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:00:37 -0400

“…Christians are now divided over two different interpretations of the same verses. So how do we know who is right? Ultimately, we don’t and so that’s why I have redirected my focus to that little thing I mentioned earlier—mypersonal relationship with God. This is where I seek answers outside of what is black and white. As I searched for a response to my questions, I was very deliberate about being as open with God as possible. Based on that very open dialogue, I formed my conclusions. Are they right? Maybe. Or maybe they’re not. But I know that God is just as eager to communicate with me as I am with Him and that if at any given moment He has something to say, He will make Himself heard.”

Nailed it. Go read the whole thing…

“All my days I will live to seek your face, to know your...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:01:16 -0400

“All my days I will live to seek your face, to know your heart.”

An Open Letter to the Church from My Generation

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:06:52 -0400

An Open Letter to the Church from My Generation:

irontitan:

Church, I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday night. If you want to hear about how that went, ask me, seriously, I want to talk about it until I die. The whole thing was great; but the be…

This is one of the most powerful and true things I have read in a long time. Take a look, and consider what it says.

no… this is really good. please read it. thanks Dom for sharing.

watching coming out videos on youtube again. gah. the feels.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:19:33 -0400

watching coming out videos on youtube again.

gah. the feels.

Missouri man ARRESTED for refusing to leave his husband’s hospital bedside

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:41:28 -0400

Missouri man ARRESTED for refusing to leave his husband’s hospital bedside:

We need more facts to this story, but it certainly is interesting.

Dealing with people I'm not out to.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:05:00 -0400

So I just shared on Facebook that post about Homophobia in France. My friend Brad wrote a comment:

There are millions of topics in the world, and you seem to obsess primarily over this one (maybe in addition to a couple of others). Is there a reason for that?

I deleted his comment. And Facebook gave me the opportunity to give him feedback (how neat!) Here’s my message to him.

Hey Brad. I deleted your comment. I’m happy to talk about it over messages, though.

I think that gay people, particularly those in the US, face a huge variety of problems that their straight counterparts don’t have to face.

If we look at equality for the past 100 years, women have grown more equal to men, blacks have grown more equal to whites. But more than that, people of other nationalities (irish, japanese) gained “acceptance” after the petty hatred was realized to be unjust.

We face that problem today with muslims and people who are from the middle east. They’re not terrorists; they’re people.

But what I think is crazier than any of those… is the way Christians hate gay people. We hear “love the sinner, hate the sin” or all kinds of other trite sayings. But I’m convinced of this: we will only be able to love the sinner when we know them.

Jesus, by default, knew the hearts of the people he interacted with. And he showed love and grace to the adulterous woman, to Zaccheus, to Matthew, to the criminal hanging next to him on the cross.

But most times I talk to Christians about gay people, their knowledge is incredibly lacking.

There is a saying: We all fear what we do not understand. There are other ways to say it —- We fear the unknown.

I think that the easiest way for a Christian to be more like Jesus… is to choose to make friends with gay people. To serve them and to encourage them and to celebrate with them. To totally forget about their sexuality. Every one has sin, and God will take care of that. We should let the Cross be the great equalizer—bringing Christian and homosexual into the same room, with weapons lowered, ready to learn from one another.

Then, we will finally let our ears be open to their stories. They will share with us the way our churches feel like oppressive prisons, how Christians scorn their presence, how hopeless and alone their situation feels.

Jesus wants to break in. And he wants to use his Church.

With time, their friends and family will realize the need to treat people without regard to their sexual orientation. And maybe we’ll realize that they are just as deserving of marriage as we are. Or maybe not. But at least we’ll learn to love just a bit better.

They are his. And he wants them like mad.

buzzfeed: This is what French homophobia looks like. Hard to...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:54:44 -0400

buzzfeed:

This is what French homophobia looks like.

Hard to believe that could happen in a city like Paris…

theatlantic: Being Gay at Jerry Falwell’s University And as I...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:27:43 -0400

theatlantic:

Being Gay at Jerry Falwell’s University

And as I looked at his perfectly formed, muscular ass, I closed my eyes and asked myself, “Why would I, the world’s most hypersexual fag, come to Jerry Falwell’s university?!”

It’s a typical story, really. Boy meets girl. Girl goes to college. Boy follows her to college. Girl decides to date other boys. Boy decides that’s a good idea, and also dates other boys. Like I said, typical.

Read more. [Image: Flickr]

SERIOUSLY. READ. THIS.

Homophobia —- Words of Past I want your help. See, I’ve had a hard time finding a website or...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:54:56 -0400

Homophobia —- Words of Past

I want your help. See, I’ve had a hard time finding a website or a video or an article that has collected a lot of the crazy things people have said about homosexuality… So, comment here. Submit something to me. Or, if you know of a resource that has listed a lot of the anti-gay hate spewed from people’s mouths, share that here. Will you help?

closetedgaychristian answered your question: Homophobia —- Words of Past

I already forgave and forgot.

I don’t see that as being kind. or helpful. Christians need to hear where their current position came from. They think it’s harmless. They think that their opinion is about keeping what’s of God pure. BUT, what they need to see is how this anti-equality position is fully rooted in hate and persecution.

Homophobia --- Words of Past

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:52:35 -0400

I want your help. See, I’ve had a hard time finding a website or a video or an article that has collected a lot of the crazy things people have said about homosexuality… So, comment here. Submit something to me. Or, if you know of a resource that has listed a lot of the anti-gay hate spewed from people’s mouths, share that here. Will you help?

Has anyone read "God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality?"

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:09:58 -0400

Just wondering?

Do you ever post something on Facebook, whether on a page or in a group, and think “please be...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:49:27 -0400

Do you ever post something on Facebook, whether on a page or in a group, and think “please be funny, please be funny.” and waiting for likes is just painful.

"It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:57:39 -0500

“It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself.”

- I don’t typically reblog stuff, but I think this is quite awesome. It’s interesting to think that we might not really get to see the very best of our outside… nor that we get to experience what it feels like to receive the very best offerings of our heart…

"There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:47:12 -0500

“There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.”

- Augusten Burroughs (via underthecarolinamoon)

also side note. i have a really exciting post about this very same idea coming up. just need more time to gather my thoughts. but think about the MOST controversial relationship/marriage in the Bible. :)

This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in weeks....

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:42:56 -0500

This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in weeks. Just sharing for the awesome.

dominictapia: I wish I had friends to watch movies with. And that I didn’t just sit alone in my...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:32:04 -0500

dominictapia:

I wish I had friends to watch movies with. And that I didn’t just sit alone in my apartment all the time.

GPOY. except i live at home. lonely, even with people—family—around me.

you know that feeling when you give a kiss, and you smile afterward. and you know in that moment...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:19:35 -0500

you know that feeling when you give a kiss, and you smile afterward. and you know in that moment that everything is pretty awesome… and that there’s probably not anything better in the world for you than that person and the kisses you will share for a lifetime?

yeh. i can’t wait to give that smile.

"One of the ways in which many Christians in our particular setting have failed to exercise their..."

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:56:27 -0500

“One of the ways in which many Christians in our particular setting have failed to exercise their imaginations, I think, is in our concept of the family. We’ve perceived benefits of the heterosexual nuclear family structure to the degree that we no longer imagine healthy and satisfying relationships outside of that formal structure, and we’re unconscious of the way Jesus initiated a new family paradigm that was an absolute economic and social necessity for many of the people who left brothers or sisters or mother or father or children to follow him.”

- Odd Man Out