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cbayer

(146,218 posts) Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:12 PM Oct 2014

From Their Lips To God’s Ears: 21 Secret LGBT Struggles With Religion

http://www.queerty.com/from-their-lips-to-gods-ears-21-secret-lgbt-struggles-with-religion-20141020

There’s an instinctual flinch in our community where sexuality and religious faith intersect. And for good reason. For many LGBT people growing up in strict religious households, rigid belief systems can mean the difference between acceptance and disownment.

It really boils down to whether or not someone takes the time to think things through on their own. If you only base your beliefs on what someone else tells you, there’s bound to be trouble.

In a video that went viral of a boy coming out to his religious parents a few months ago, the mother explains to her son that “you can deny it all you want to, but I believe in the word of God and God creates nobody that way. It’s a path that you have chosen to choose.” There’s nowhere to go from there, really — the boy gets kicked to the curb.

We were interested in hearing from more people caught in the conflict of religious prejudice, so we asked the team at Whisper to see what they could find.

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From Their Lips To God’s Ears: 21 Secret LGBT Struggles With Religion (Original Post) cbayer Oct 2014 OP

a life based on myth and superstition is fatiguing at best and debilitating at worst msongs Oct 2014 #1

Yes, but for some a life based on belief and faith is invigorating cbayer Oct 2014 #2

I'm sure the mother in the video found her faith invigorating and life sustaining Fumesucker Oct 2014 #3

You are talking about the video that prompted this piece, I cbayer Oct 2014 #4

I already indicated I think that, as I said the mother was obviously sustained by her religion Fumesucker Oct 2014 #5

I have also seen it. I saw it with my college roomate cbayer Oct 2014 #6

Fumesucker did NOT "paint all with that brush." trotsky Oct 2014 #7

So you posted this op in the hopes that somebody would agree that Warren Stupidity Oct 2014 #8

msongs

(67,420 posts)

1. a life based on myth and superstition is fatiguing at best and debilitating at worst

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:28 PM

Oct 2014

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

2. Yes, but for some a life based on belief and faith is invigorating

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:58 PM

Oct 2014

and life sustaining.

Would you like to take it up with the GLBT people of faith that are featured in this piece?

Bet you wouldn't, because a life based on one-liners and snarky attacks on people who see things differently than you is fatiguing at best and debilitating at worst.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

3. I'm sure the mother in the video found her faith invigorating and life sustaining

Reply to cbayer (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:31 PM

Oct 2014

Her son I would think somewhat less so.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

4. You are talking about the video that prompted this piece, I

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:35 PM

Oct 2014

am guessing.

That was horrible. She is a horrible person.

But what about some of the people highlighted in this piece?

I don't think religions invigorating and life sustaining for everyone and I said some. Do you think it never is?

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

5. I already indicated I think that, as I said the mother was obviously sustained by her religion

Reply to cbayer (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:43 PM

Oct 2014

How else could she bear to turn her child away from her countenance otherwise?

I've seen the heartbreak this sort of family rift can cause up close and far too personal, it colors my perceptions in a lot of ways.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)

6. I have also seen it. I saw it with my college roomate

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 07:03 PM

Oct 2014

and very close friend whose mother died last year never even acknowledging or accepting her daughter.

It's tragic and inexcusable.

But it's not everyone and not fair to paint all with that brush.

I also have GLBT friends who have found their strength in their religion when times were particularly hard.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

7. Fumesucker did NOT "paint all with that brush."

Reply to cbayer (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 08:54 PM

Oct 2014

Why use that phrase, why attack, when they didn't do that?

Raise the tone.

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)

8. So you posted this op in the hopes that somebody would agree that

Reply to cbayer (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 08:58 PM

Oct 2014

religion can really fuck up families and devastate LGBT people so you could admonish them?

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