I see another post by a homophobic christian. She's entitled to her beliefs, isn't she?

It's really not surprising how many Christians are homophobic and anti-BLM. That was a huge thing that made me realize how NOT Jesus-like Christianity is.

It’s no coincidence that the ex-vangelical and Christian deconstruction movement happened at the same time as the movement for Black lives. Christian Supremacy is such a huge source of injustice in the US. One of the most important aspects of my own anti-racism journey started with deconstructing the Christian faith that I was raised in.

This is controversial because Christian supremacist ideology is really pervasive in Black churches too. They don't like the racist parts but they do embrace the homophobia and sexism. And they don't see how it's all related.

When you think beyond White supremacy to see that's it's just one part of the umbrella of Christian supremacy, it's really a game-changer. Christian Supremacy is multiple forms of oppression and Supremacy, all wrapped into one.

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bijouxbroussard · F

Yes. Most organized religions are homophobic. And in the U.S., a lot of these white Christian churches who won’t marry same-sex couples refused interracial couples before Loving v. Virginia. When people from black churches were calling, seeking support for a "sanctity of marriage" state proposition (before Obergefell v. Hodges) I informed several of that fact and asked how someone who’d probably known discrimination could visit it upon others. 😳

markansas

@bijouxbroussard Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities.

In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. In 1960 interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 U.S. states. It became legal throughout the United States in 1967, following the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Earl Warren in the case Loving v. Virginia, which ruled that race-based restrictions on marriages, such as the anti-miscegenation law in the state of Virginia, violated the Equal Protection Clause
for those who dont remember and need to read it themselves thanks for reminding me bijouxbroussard and that was not long ago was it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@bijouxbroussard And here's me who was raised in a Christian home where we were taught that "Jesus loves everyone", well except for them queers, sand people, Communists and unbelievers, they're all going to hell! While they were good people, very well educated and quite moderate, my parents were products of Generations who were taught to believe those things and they died believing them too. We're in the 21st Century, it's time for a real change!

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@bijouxbroussard

It’s hard for me to fathom that I was such a devout Christian at one time. I actually believed in that nonsense and I just ignored all of the contradictions. But hey, they buffered it with emotional pleading and fancy words like redemption and salvation. 😅

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@Randi1125 I wasn't that devout as I could see the fallacies even as a young kid but my parents certainly were. Gawd help me if I ever questioned, then I'd get to spend the entire day Sunday repenting for my sins against Gawd! Still in the 60's children were "meant to be seen and not heard", we weren't allowed to have a dissenting opinion, ever!

Randi1125 · 31-35, F

@spjennifer

Oh, I most certainly questioned it.

DIABLISS

@Randi1125 i was the same...and then i turned 14

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@Randi1125 Well, I questioned it by myself, I mean I knew it was all fantasy and fiction but at that time, I wasn't old enough, 12-13, or wise enough to understand the implications of disputing it all. As a gay teen, I kept it all deeply in the closet as neither my parents or the Church would have accepted me as I was an "evil sinner"!

DIABLISS

@spjennifer the church is where the evil sinners are

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@DIABLISS That isn't necessarily true, I'd more say misguided or misinformed, some intentionally. Not all people who belong to churches are bad or evil, same as it is in day to day life. I have met and know some very decent people who happen to be religious, as long as they don't judge me, I don't judge them.