religion
Faith, belief, religion and spirituality
I spent years struggling with who I was and who I thought G-d wanted me to be. I felt that one of my life’s missions was to reconcile the fact that I was born into a female body but felt that I was really a boy inside.
That minister sitting next to you at my dinner table – gay. In fact, my architect, accountant, financial advisor, attorney – all members of my church, all gay.
While the LGBT scene has gone through many cultural and political changes over the decades, the message of these homophobic haters has remained stubbornly consistent: Turn away from your sinful lifestyle immediately, less God bring Hellfire down on you, and possibly the rest of us.
We’re participating in the Soulforce Equality Ride – a two-month social justice bus tour dedicated to nonviolently confronting the political and spiritual oppression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.
Religiosity and spirituality in the lives of LGBT individuals has remained a hot topic for eons. Those who do not understand this lifestyle may consistently preach from inscriptions that they may feel are foreign to us. However, the phraseologies in these literary recordings are most times the innate stems that hold our committed relationships together.
My early dates in the Denver dating scene were spent pretending away my faith in these situations, as though it were an automatic strike against me. I talked up food. I waxed eloquent on writing. I extolled the virtues my favorite authors.
But nothing about faith. Or church. Or religion. It was too risky.
We live in a world of distractions. There have never before been so many avenues down which we may travel to diversion from the task at hand or the present situation. The outlets for our entertainment in the world of audio/visual seem endless.
I’m an unusual gay man. Let’s face it: not many of us jump with glee…
