have tuned out because your comments deserve to be answered for anyone else reading this thread.
For the record, I am biracial, of both European-American and Native American descent. I am a straight female. My church has many LGBTQ members, including some who are ordained. The congregation is racially mixed. So your claim of my "superiority of a bruised (white) ego" is not quite on the mark.
Why would you ask me about the coach praying on the football field when, as I have clearly stated, his brand of RW Christianity has nothing to do with me? If you search me on DU, you will find my posts about him. Is it possible that you are nurturing a bruised ego because I do not fit into the corner that you expect me to?
It is terrible that religion harmed you - and many others - due to sexuality. Churches have also done terrible harm to POC and to women. Some still do. I do know that my church and the other 2 churches that I am involved with embrace and support LGBTQ members, but that has not been the case in the past. While these specific churches did not persecute LGBTQ people loudly and openly in media, they also were not accepting either. Their disapproval was more silent than open, but surely was felt just as badly.
Your anger is well justified, but you don't need me to tell you that. I cannot erase the pain you experienced nor do I think that you should or must like religion. I simply do not agree that all churches or all religions are evil. I used to think that once because of what many churches have done to women (I am a marriage abuse survivor), not to mention to Native people, especially to children. But I am able to recognize and accept the changes in some churches now. Not everyone can, and that is up to them.
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