So this isn't meant to be shady or trolling so don't take offense, it's a serious question. How do you cope with the homophobia in your religion? Most of the major world religions are homophobic and most of the people on here are LGBT so how do you manage to balance your religion with your personal life? There are people in your religion that hate gays what do you say to them?
My own religious convictions are in no way predicated on the opinions of others. If someone within my same vein of belief were to be hateful and vile towards people like me -- and they are -- it ultimately doesn't change what I believe and don't believe. It only changes my opinion of them as a person.
I ALWAYS educate them. Trust me on this one. Just because you're religious doesn't mean you agree with everything. I believe religion was made for the straight man. It's horrible towards women and gay/lesbians.
I have an argument for literally every religious bigot so don't worry.
(I'm a Catholic/Christian)
My religion isn't as bad, all I know is that I believe in god and that it's he who will decide and that's all that matters. My religion's "homophobia" doesn't ever phase me unless I read a certain "story?"in the quran.
No one brings up the hate against homosexuality without being prompted and I never have to talk about it, and there's like a million topics you can talk about so why emphasize on this? My religion and my country are pretty good places to be in right now and as long as I'm safe and happy and can be as flamboyant or butch as I want that's all I need.
I'm a Muslim, so you already know how tough is that, but I'm coping with being myself tbh.
But I've never seen my family (my mother and my two sisters) saying something against gays. They've actually saw a tv show with gay characters and they didn't have any problem with it.
Homophobes and people like WBC aren't real Christians. As a Christian you follow the New testament. The old testaments laws were abolished when Jesus died on the cross. And Jesus never said anything about gay people. He taught love and tolerance
But I've never really gotten any homophobia directed at me. My family is religious but they're tolerant and accepting. I have my older gay cousin to thank for that. He just got married too.
My own religious convictions are in no way predicated on the opinions of others. If someone within my same vein of belief were to be hateful and vile towards people like me -- and they are -- it ultimately doesn't change what I believe and don't believe. It only changes my opinion of them as a person.
