Walking back and forth around the church, I happened upon a conservatively-dressed woman and a young gay man yelling at her: “The Bible is just a BOOK!”. I intervened. The woman was not a member of the church, but had heard about the protest and turned up to support the church. She was respectful in her conversation. I calmly explained to her what my life with my partner was like, that I wasn’t anti-religious or anti-Christianity, but that this was something that spoke deeply to me. That I was exploring my relationship with God, but that being with my partner was something I experienced as deeply spiritual.
At the end of our conversation she thanked me. She said she’d always thought gayness was “just a sex thing,” that hearing from me about how I experienced my relationship was really causing her to question what she’d been told. She offered me a hug, and then she went home to do Bible study.
clearly the homophobe was the victim all along bc she just didn't realize that being gay was more than sex!
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-01 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)http://partysoft.tumblr.com/post/51903604459/one-more-thing-about-homosexuality-homophobia-within
Walking back and forth around the church, I happened upon a conservatively-dressed woman and a young gay man yelling at her: “The Bible is just a BOOK!”. I intervened. The woman was not a member of the church, but had heard about the protest and turned up to support the church. She was respectful in her conversation. I calmly explained to her what my life with my partner was like, that I wasn’t anti-religious or anti-Christianity, but that this was something that spoke deeply to me. That I was exploring my relationship with God, but that being with my partner was something I experienced as deeply spiritual.
At the end of our conversation she thanked me. She said she’d always thought gayness was “just a sex thing,” that hearing from me about how I experienced my relationship was really causing her to question what she’d been told. She offered me a hug, and then she went home to do Bible study.
clearly the homophobe was the victim all along bc she just didn't realize that being gay was more than sex!
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-01 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-01 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)how do u know he's gay tho
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-01 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)which is where " The woman was not a member of the church, but had heard about the protest and turned up to support the church." comes in
she was just showing up to anti-gay protest nbd
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(Anonymous) 2013-09-02 12:00 am (UTC)(link)gj gay ppl