#or. *not*

[moonmoonthecrabking]

yeah, okay, i'm going to be a bitch. was this post inspired by fandom bullshit that i don't know if i'm going to main tag? sure, but i also stand by it.

so queer christians exist. that's just a fact. queer people of any religion exist. because, even when one of those identities makes us feel pushed out of the other's community, religion is not exclusive to allocishet people.

exhibit a: i am a bisexual christian. when i realised i was bisexual and actually remembered it, i didn't stop being a christian. but, by that same metric, my going to church and praying and reading my Bible didn't stop me from liking girls.

exhibit b: i'm a bit more of a progressive christian than other people i know in real life, but i also know more conservative christians who. are queer. and aren't much older than me. they have different outlooks on how they practise it (for example, my main concern with dating someone of the same gender is not being super out, while theirs is more theological).

my christianity is a core part of my identity. personally, it is the primary part of my identity. however, the secondary aspects, like my gender, my sexuality, my upbringing etc all inform my faith, how i interpret the Bible. in that same way, my faith informs those things, like how i see my sexuality and what it means to me.

christianity is not a monolith. a character, yes, even a hyper-religious christian character, can discover they are queer. furthermore, a deconstruction arc for them doesn't have to end in them abandoning their faith, but reshaping their faith from what they have been brought up with in context. if they know a lot of queer people, it's also possible they recognise their behaviour as queer more quickly than they would in a different environment, even if they're trying to repress themselves.