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Celebrating the gifts LGBTQ+ people bring to faith and the ways in which queerness is a gift to ourselves and the world @thisisbgm (✡️) @shannontlkearns (✝️)

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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
This is why we say “kind” homophobia is still evil. You cannot claim to love your kids and despise who God made them to be. Queer/trans kids who are reading this: you can demand more from your parents. You can set boundaries. You can walk away from “love” like this.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
If you are a Christian, unless you have E X T E N S I V E L Y studied Judaism *from Jewish rabbis and theologians* for like, years, most of what you think you know about Judaism, including Judaism at the time of Jesus, is probably wrong.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
@TheRaDR @Bookshop_Org I got fired up all over again as I was prepping your ep! Can’t wait to share it. It’s so moving. Thanks again for sharing yourself with us + all the work you do + your personal words of encouragement after we finished recording 💙💙 (-b)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
FYI @tumblr is blocking access to our blog (you may be able to view it if you are logged in and have safe mode off). They also removed our logo. We have never posted explicit content—we're just LGBTQ Christians existing. Or trying to. (we support users posting explicit content)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Virginity is not something that you can lose or give. It's a concept designed to shame and control. You have your body. You can share it how you like. Your value is not a finite commodity. Your body is holy. Your love is abundant.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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As a trans man who’s been writing about the intersections between transition and resurrection for over 15 years now I find beautiful serendipity in Easter and Trans Day of Visibility falling on the same day.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Some of y’all have left the evangelical church but refuse to let it go. You don’t have to read their takes. You don’t have to follow their news. You can just let go.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Your queerness does not need forgiving Your queerness does not need forgiving Your queerness does not need forgiving Your queerness does not need forgiving Your queerness does not need forgiving
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
"Disabled people were the only ones equipped to get us through this pandemic in a way that would cause the least amount of harm and you ignored 'cause you left us for dead" - @Imani_Barbarin
Ableds are 2 years late to a conversation that disabled people have been having while they left us for dead. I am so damn tired.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
I don't know who needs to hear this today but: DO NOT get trapped in conversations of "Please explain yourself to me" with people who refuse to read the dozens of books + 100s of articles already written on these topics. They don't want to understand, they want to keep you stuck.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Hot take: people who say this also always believe that their opinion = God's word
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Unpopular opinion: God’s Word > The world’s opinion.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
As we wake on this Transgender Day Of Remembrance to news about a shooting at a queer club in Colorado we remember that all of our liberation is bound up together. We must fight for all of us in a world that does not want us to survive.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but internalized shame built from a lifetime of being subjected to queerphobia is not the same thing as the holy spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Telling LGBTQ ppl to stay in unaffirming churches as members is spiritual malpractice. You can't be nourished by a place that doesnt affirm your full humanity. You can attend in protest, as activism. But it cant be your faith home. Telling ppl to stay is advising them to starve
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Homophobia is a sin. Transphobia is a sin Biphobia is a sin. Queerphobia is a sin. Full. Stop.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 months
The whole "the Bible requires monogamy" is a WILD thing to say with a straight face if you've ever actually read the Bible
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Normalize telling homophobes you'll pray for their souls
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
If Jesus was crucified in America...
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
When we say anti-LGBTQ theology is violent, it's not an exaggeration. Actual LGBTQ people actually die as a direct result of those beliefs. If you hold them, repent. If you're on the receiving end, protect yourself. If you're an ally, obstruct & disrupt them.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
"The Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God — except in the places where it's a metaphor or an allegory or only applies to that specific context ... and btw I'm the one who gets to decide that" is a really shitty hermeneutic (Yeah, we know how to use that word too)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
1 year
Transgender Christians have been writing, speaking, and organizing for A LONG ASS TIME. If you don't know, here ya go. This is (obviously) only a partial list 👇
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
We grieve with the family of Rachel Held Evans and all of those who loved her. Trusting that death is not the end we believe in the hope of the resurrection even as our hearts break.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
7 years
"Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself." - Anais Nin
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Queer chosen families are sacred
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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“‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen." - Ezekiel 16:49-50
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
There is a difference between "I feel called to celibacy" and I "I think I should be celibate because I think that God is against queer sex." The latter necessarily implies an extension to all queer people (even if never explicitly stated). That distinction important. #Qconf19
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX LGBTQ CHRISTIANS CAN AND DO HAVE SEX
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
There are some LGBTQ+ Christian orgs who’s sole purpose is to get approval from Evangelical churches. They just want to be let back in. But the reality is if every evangelical church suddenly became gay affirming overnight alllll the same problems would still exist.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Reminder: homelessness is an LGBTQ Christian issue
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but "sex positive" and "sending sexual messages to people who have not in any way consented to receive those messages" are not the same thing. (-b)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Gay sex is more natural than international borders
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but internalized shame built from a lifetime of being subjected to queerphobia is not the same thing as the holy spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
"The Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God — except in the places where it's a metaphor or an allegory or only applies to that specific context ... and btw I'm the one who gets to decide that" is a really shitty hermeneutic (Yeah, we know how to use that word too)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
Dear White LGBTQ People Who Have Always Wondered What It Would Be Like To Have Been At Stonewall, It's happening now. Show up.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
In case you'd been fooled: Lauren Daigle is aligned with white Christian nationalism and gleefully performing at an unmasked, packed in, likely superspreader event.
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GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS OVER AMERICA tonight in New Orleans with @Lauren_Daigle 😭😭😭😭😭
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but masturbation is a good and holy and healthy thing. Pass it on.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
"Coming out" was originally abt coming out into queer community. Being associated with telling our queerness to straight, cis people came later. You can be out even if you haven't had The Talk™️ w/ your parents or coworkers. Connect with LGBTQ people, that's how you come out!
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Homophobia is a sin. I hope the Pope repents. (-b)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Here are two truths: - the US military is a violent, colonizing force in the world - any discrimination against trans people is an assault on their dignity and a threat to freedom Trans people are not a burden. Gender diversity is a blessing. The #TransMilitaryBan is wrong.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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I don't know who needs to hear this but internalized shame built from a lifetime of being subjected to queerphobia is not the same thing as the holy spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Homophobia is a sin. Transphobia is a sin Biphobia is a sin. Queerphobia is a sin. Full. Stop.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
In this week's podcast ep, Millie encourages Christians to do 2 things 1. learn about our own history 2. learn about Judaism and Jewish people *from Jews* Listen for more of Millie's insights:
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
1 year
If you're leaving evangelical Christianity, make sure you unlearn the arrogance and supremacy along your way out too!
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” - Alice Walker
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but internalized shame built from a lifetime of being subjected to queerphobia is not the same thing as the holy spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
We gotta have a talk about conserv. Christian morality... The convo so often goes, "Well if you can be LGBTQ, what's stopping me from being a thief/rapist/murderer/pedophille???" If fear of God is the only reason you aren't abusive, that's a problem w your morality, not ours
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
LGBTQ folks only (will start a separate thread for cis/straight folks): if you used to believe that being gay / having gay sex / affirming your gender / transitioning / otherwise "practicing" being LGBTQ was a sin, how did your beliefs about that change?
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
This @teenvogue article "Gender Variance Around the World Over Time" and how nonbinary identities have existed for THOUSANDS of years is a reminder that we are ancient and holy 🙏
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
You are not your deepest insecurities. You are not your deepest insecurities. You are not your deepest insecurities. You are not your deepest insecurities.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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This @teenvogue article "Gender Variance Around the World Over Time" and how nonbinary identities have existed for THOUSANDS of years is a reminder that we are ancient and holy 🙏
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Queer chosen families are sacred
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Reminder: you can be queer and Christian Reminder: it's also ok if you come out and decide you're no longer a Christian You don't have to stay in a faith that doesn't fit to *prove* that LGBTQ can be Christian. Choose abundant life wherever you find it.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
"The Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God — except in the places where it's a metaphor or an allegory or only applies to that specific context ... and btw I'm the one who gets to decide that" is a really shitty hermeneutic (Yeah, we know how to use that word too)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Reminder: you don't have to go to a church that doesn't fully accept and affirm the goodness of how God crafted your gender or sexuality. Even on Christmas.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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"The Bible is the literal, inerrant word of God — except in the places where it's a metaphor or an allegory or only applies to that specific context ... and btw I'm the one who gets to decide that" is a really shitty hermeneutic (Yeah, we know how to use that word too)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Reminder: homelessness is an LGBTQ Christian issue
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
LGBTQ people, a liberating word for you today: You don't need their approval. You don't need their blessing. You don't need their ordination. You don't need their recognition. You are good & holy & loved. God is here, amongst us. If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Homophobia is a sin. Transphobia is a sin Biphobia is a sin. Queerphobia is a sin. Full. Stop.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
Not Christian like "Say Merry Christmas!" Christian as in TEAR DOWN THE POWERFUL FROM THEIR THRONES!
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Your "personal religious beliefs" stop being personal when you: - tweet about them - write a book about them - tell them to your kid - form church policy around them - vote according to them - share them at a conference - talk about them in public Then they become public.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏 Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏 Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏 Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏 Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏 Queer 👏 sex 👏 is 👏 sacred 👏
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
7 years
Hey straight Christians: the Gospel is costly. If you support LGBTQ people you might lose everything. Do it anyway.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Nightly reminder that you don’t actually love LGBTQ people if you think that basic expressions of our humanity (aka being relationships with each other, living into our gender) are sinful
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
Every now and then I remember the time I was banned from any property owned by the University of Notre Dame for life because I gave LGBTQ-affirming resources to a closeted gay student there. I would do it again in a heartbeat. (-brian)
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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If your theology leads to literal death, it's not from God.
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Homophobia is a sin Biphobia is a sin Transphobia is a sin All queerphobia is a sin If you call sinful that which God has created as good and beautiful and holy, you are separating yourself from the divine. We pray for you.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
PSA: the "choice" between "worship me unconditionally and mentally assent to the correct abstract statements or be tormented forever" is not actually a choice. It's violent, abusive, coercion. It's definitely not good news.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
Pssst... The reason why pro-LGBTQ arguments based in apologetics end up in endless debates is because the objection was never about logic, it's about disgust. Jesus didn't argue about the humanity of people that society was disgusted by, he served those people.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Queer chosen families are sacred
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Progressive Christians committed to God's liberating work in the world are still Christians bc we believe, specifically, in Jesus who we call Christ, his ministry, and his legacy. If we didn't, we could just be secular humanists. You don't get to tell us we aren't Christians.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
You can never be married enough or monogamous enough or have a white enough picket fence to make your unaffirming family / church / friends accept you. You've got to love and take care of yourself. Here. Now. Just as you are. You are already enough.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Queerness adds something critical and irreplaceable to the world. You're welcome.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
To straight, cis Christians (including affirming ones!) who want to "show God's love to the LGBTQ community": What if YOU are the one who need ministering to? What if LGBTQ ppl (even non-Christian LGBTQ folks), hold the key to God's love? You have something to learn from us!
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
The spirit of God moves at Pentecost The spirit of God moves at Stonewall The spirit of God moves at the border The spirit of God moves at every Black Lives Matter protest Diversity, access, justice are holy fuel for the fire of God's spirit. Listen for her, she's roaring.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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Sometimes when I'm at a gay club, I take a step back & watch my friends shower each other with physical affection. Hugs and kisses and winks and nods and silly faces and pinched cheeks and grinding and making out. If you squint your eyes just right, you can see the Holy Spirit
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
1 year
There are Christian pastors/writers who were very influential to me at a time when I needed it and nudged down the path toward the person I am today. And I can now see clearly that they are harmful to LGBTQ people. And this is what I do about my complicated feelings about them:
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
Trans folks: Your body is good. It's good the way it is. It's good if you've changed it. It's good if you want to change it. It's good both before and after hormones and surgery. Your body is good. And it is yours. And you are loved.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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We don’t “debate” the rightness of LGBTQ lives any more than Moses debated with Pharaoh. “Let my people go!” is his and our charge. #faithfullyLGBT #queertheology
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
Then, you can listen to this episode with the BRILLIANT Dr. Amy-Jill Levine about Christianity & the New Testament through the eyes of a Jewish professor:
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Redefining families is a deeply queer thing to do (see: queer chosen families, taking care of each other during homelessness, the AIDS crisis, trauma) It's also a deeply Christian thing to do (see Matthew 12) Our experiences as queer Christians compliment each other
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
7 years
🗣️ The harm done to LGBTQ people by unaffirming words, action and theology is more than just "hurt feelings" ... A THREAD:
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@QTheology Wow! I don't believe hurt feelings equal people being killed.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
5 years
Friendly reminder that so much of what post-Christians (and even many still-Christians) don't like about "the old testament God" is really anti-semitic lies and distortions from power-hungry evangelical Christians and not actually representative of the Jewish God
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
6 years
Your queerness does not need forgiving
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
7 years
It’s ok to have sex. It’s ok to have gay sex. It’s ok to have kinky sex. It’s ok to have consensually nonmonogamous sex.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
LGBTQ+ lives > unaffirming parents' feelings
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
4 years
Reminder: You don't have to go home to a family who calls you the wrong name or makes your partner sleep in a different bed or tells you that they are disappointed in you or that your queerness is an issue. Your queerness is a gift, protecting it is your sacred duty.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
2 years
We go more into depth on this here: and if your parents are treating you poorly know you’re not alone. We will walk with you as you figure out what to do next and how to protect yourself from them.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
3 years
PSA: if you are an evangelical Christian who openly agrees with anti-LGBTQ ideology but in your heart of hearts, you think actually it’s ok to be LGBTQ… … you are not in the closet! You’re just contributing to the oppression of LGBTQ people.
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Brian & Shay | QueerTheology.com
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When I came out, I thought I was gay. A Christian counselor asked me to do therapy to move my attractions toward bisexual, then I could "choose" women & follow God's plan. JOKES ON HIM because I ended up bi, hella queer & living God's best for my life #bivisibilityday (-Brian)
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