Happy Pride Month!
🏳️🌈 It’s a time to celebrate, and yet it’s a time to mourn. We are surrounded and filled with sadness over a society in moral drift. Fundamentalists would say that you being Queer is moral drift, nonsensically blaming you for the very real problems of violence, disease and poverty.
Have you noticed more of your LGBTQ+ family and friends coming out? Since 2020 I have become aware of a dozen people who, being away from the gaze, developed enough self-love to not care about the judgment of others.
It’s also true that cis-hetero folks who paused to reflect over the past two years have come home to presence. They finally recognize themselves as people whom they knew but avoided. We decided that we were enough.
Enough?
We know who we are, and if people seem to disapprove widely, then we may have needed to be among people who see, appreciate, and respect us. We are being led and inspired by LGBTQ+ folks. I love it.
I may be in touch with more folks coming out than many clergy. Many of the LGBTQ+ people who’ve spoken with me once had a church affiliation, but no more. I attribute this to the power in the name of Jesus. They know that Jesus celebrates them when their brothers and sisters in Christ don’t.
