If you wanna learn what Christianity is beyond the homophobic, racist and sexist Bible thumpers portray it is my messages and asks are always open.

The biggest barrier I ever felt to becoming a Christian was Christian-homophobia. I have always been a supporter of the queer community, for as long as I can remember, and from my teenage years I've known that I am not-straight.

How could I love a God who hated all these beautiful and wonderful people?

When I was first beginning to know him, before I'd even attended church, I prayed and asked him this over and over again.

Soon after I was given a pamphlet to attend a non-religious event at a local chruch, a Uniting church. I walked through the door that even and next to a Christian cross I saw a pride flag.

As I took a moment for contemplation I felt the overwhelming love of God inside of me and I know him for the first time in my long life as an atheist.

I know his answer to my prayer, something so obvious as you look at the life and legacy of Christ - God loves all his children, and a homophobic Christian should be an oxymoron.

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

& God Bless You 💟🌈

Elizabethtown, North Carolina

Church Mission San Jose doors in San Antonio, Texas, UNITED STATES

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

(Michigan Law School)

the ask about marriage recently made me think of that thing i thought up when we were chatting about Separation: Machete reading up about how there were some same sex marriages in pagan Rome ages before and disregarding the church for once to have a little ceremony with Vasco out in the countryside. and i thought your tumblr readers would like to think on that

Oh yeah, I remember that! I actually think about it every now and then, but I've yet to do any meaningful research on the idea.

Machete is kind of an antiquity fanboy and it wouldn't be far fetched to say that his fascination and admiration for ancient Greece and Rome might've made it a tiny bit easier for him to accept his orientation. And even if he'd feel uneasy about acting behind his church's back and the ceremony would be purely symbolic, the need to have their union recognized and sealed in some type of way would be immense.

despite opinions on Restoration, I think that the fanfictions that are gonna come out of s19 are going to be insanely good

No desire to convert to catholicism but the desire to kind of pretend that no schisms ever happened.

GEOpolitical analyst

(I love Hyunsu Yim)

I’m not Catholic.

When I’m talking about my faith I’m not talking about Catholicism.

When I’m talking about Christianity 99% of the time it isn’t about Catholicism.

I have nothing against Catholics but stop assuming I’m Catholic.

I’m a Anglican wannabe Episcopalian.

Not Catholic.

St. Conan's Kirk - SCOTLAND

Jason DeRose at NPR:

The United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the U.S., has voted to repeal its ban on LGBTQ clergy as well as prohibitions on its' ministers from officiating at same-sex weddings. Delegates overwhelmingly approved the changes, 692 to 51, during the United Methodist Church's General Conference. The meeting is taking place this week in Charlotte, N.C. after the pandemic delayed the 2020 General Conference where these decisions has been slated to take place.

The tone of the Charlotte meeting has been decidedly upbeat, in sharp contrast with the last, highly contentious global meeting back in 2019, when heated floor debates left many feeling hurt. In fact, there was no floor debate over the clergy and marriages rules this time around. Rather, they were included on a consent agenda. However, in the years leading up to this General Conference, about one-quarter of United Methodist congregations in the U-S left the denomination. Those congregations tended to be among the most conservative in the church. Their departure made the decisions this year less fraught. Some of those departing congregations left to form the more conservative Global Methodist Church and others decided to become independent. The main reason many of those congregations left the denomination is that despite the church's official rules against LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings, some local geographic conferences chose to not enforce them.

At the United Methodist Church's General Conference today, the UMC voted overwhelmingly to lift its ban on LGBTQ+ clergy and denominational clergy officiating same-sex weddings.

This is made possible in party by the departure of more conservative churches to either the Global Methodist Church, independent of any denomination, or other Wesleyan denominations.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: United Methodist Church ends ban on LGBTQ+ clergy in historic vote

CNN: United Methodist Church lifts 40-year ban on LGBTQ clergy

🚨COMMUNITY ALERT🚨 The Westboro Baptist Church is targeting Mag.Pi, the store where Laura Ann Carleton was murdered by Christian fascist Travis Ikeguchi over a Pride flag. They will be rallying at the Mag.Pi storefront as well as several other locations throughout the Lake Arrowhead community this weekend. On Saturday, they’ll be at Mag.Pi. Sunday and Monday they’ll hit multiple other spots in the community.

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