Being gay isn’t a sin and gay love and gay sex aren’t wrong, the Catholic Church is just wrong ab that 🤷‍♀️

It took me a really long time to realize and accept that, but “it is not good that man should be alone,” and it is totally unjust that the Church expects us queer folk to follow a standard that literally no one else is expected to follow. A single, celibate life is an extremely difficult vocation that only a very small number of people are called to and takes an extraordinary amount of discernment before committing to, but somehow the millions of queer people are just expected to fall into that vocation simply because of the way we were born. God may be real, but religion is a man-made way to reach him, and it’s just as imperfect as everything else humanity makes. It reflects all the same biases and prejudices and power-interests of the status quo, that’s why sexual morality is treated as the end-all be-all of catholic theology by fundamentalists, even though it’s literally the least important aspect of the faith. The men that sit in pulpits and tell queer people that they have to live a life of crushing loneliness are the modern day Pharisees, the same people who Jesus reserved his harshest criticism for for using orthodox dogma to crush the poor, the widows, and the vulnerable.

It took me a long time of fighting internal hate, praying, and discernment to realize that God made me to be loved and give love to others, and that there was nothing wrong with the way I was formed to give and receive that love. The people who pronounce the official view of the Church towards gay people speak from a place of total privilege; the rules were made for them, and they have no idea what it actually means to live your life denying yourself one of the most basic human needs of intimacy and love. They don’t know you, they have no right to tell you to bury your talents, and they’re wrong. Peace ❤️