#as long as you confirm and at least appear chaste until your union
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pope francis goes, maybe lgbtq+ catholics should have some rights, and conservative catholics lose it.
liberation theology is great actually. i wouldn't know about it without conservative catholics insulting the pope about it. anyway, adopted it into my personal theology. thank you jesuits and people who are upset about them.
also, its still discriminatory. he also says very non-affirming things. yet it's still too much "acceptance" in some people's mind. what happened to loving your neighbor as yourself?
i am happy for lgbtq+ catholics, small steps, i understand. but if it makes you more comfortable in expressing your faith and being included in it, i love that for you.
a lot of people don't get why lgbtq+ persons may stay, and think it's to attract lgbtq+ persons to a non-affirming institution, but i think that's simplistic.
i think people fail to realize that it may be for lgbtq+ persons who are staying. some won't leave bc of their faith, and they should be treated well, you know?
some people simply will not leave because of their beliefs at the end of the day, so progress must be made and is a good thing. this is what i have learned through my conversion elsewhere.
#my church is conditionally affirming#as long as you confirm and at least appear chaste until your union#but i believe and have and built an affirming community around me#you bet we are fighting it#but even that is policing and my local congregation isn't affirming#who absolutely will look at me cross-eyed when i consider a mixed orientation marriage#they have a good freaking point#many christian denominations have been struggling with this recently and good#even the sbc is struggling over women taking leadership roles and their congregations supporting them#revolutionary time to be a progressive christian#people fight me about being mormon a lot and y'know what? they can deal with it.#i am very involved with the wider latter day saint movement and experience racism there too. i just believe change comes from ecumenism#i say this bc even if you go elsewhere and i did - a lot of the same problems will be where you go- i have found
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