My friends think Christians are (I\u2019m trying to think of nicer versions of the words they really say)… not nice, nothing like Jesus. They think I\u2019m deluded, because, although I claim to be a Christian, I like LGBT people. They are my friends. I\u2019m nice to them. My LGBT friends have never met a Christian who was nice to them before. Therefore, in their minds, I can\u2019t possibly be a Christian. Christians have never been nice to them.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen I march with my friends, Christians scream at us and tell us we are going to hell. When we try to attend church, Christians (mis)quote Bible verses to us, don\u2019t accept us, hope we\u2019ll stay away. When Christian coworkers learn of our sexual orientation, they try to get us fired from our jobs, spread lies about us, and usually hate us.<\/p>\n
We’ve been threatened, hit, thrown out of our homes and families, and told “You’re dead to me.”<\/p>\n
Such behavior does not look like Jesus to me.<\/p>\n
Am I Queer or am I Christian?<\/h2>\n
People like to ask, “Can a queer be a Christian?” My friends and I wonder why many Christians are so queer. They claim to follow Jesus, but look nothing like Him? Isn’t that odd? Isn’t that… queer?<\/p>\n
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My friends and I have discussed all of this. Their conclusion is that either this “Jesus thing” is a crock or these people who bear his name aren’t Christians.\u00a0We’ve all read about Jesus in the Bible, and these “Christian” people don’t look anything like him. Maybe he was a one-of-a-kind and it\u2019s not possible to be anything like him.<\/p>\n
My conclusion:\u00a0Most people who call themselves Christians are chasing religion instead of following Jesus.<\/p>\n
I believe that Jesus is real. I believe it truly is possible to follow him. It is possible to look and act like him.<\/p>\n
My friends are LGBT. I am Q. That stands for Queer. I love Jesus and I like who I am. I am who I was created to be. I am not a mistake. My friends are not mistakes. We are created in the image of God.<\/p>\n
Jesus had nothing to say about LGBTQ. He had lots to say about divorce. How many Christians do I know who are divorced? – Probably about half of them. I don\u2019t treat them like crap. Where did Jesus tell me to do that? \u2013 He didn\u2019t. He told me to love them. So I do.<\/p>\n
Do you have questions for me? Do you want to hear more of my story? There will be one more post this week in which I will share more about me, and if there is enough interest, we can do a Q&A in a future post.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual, or Queer person be a Christian? This Queer man says yes. But he is not a freak. The freaks are those who claim to follow Jesus but look and act nothing like Jesus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1258,1336,1259,1262,1680,1682],"class_list":{"0":"post-32875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-gay","8":"tag-guest-post","9":"tag-homosexual","10":"tag-lgbt","11":"tag-looks-like-jesus","12":"tag-queer","13":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n
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Most of us are not stupid. We can spend a few hours reading the New Testament Gospels and get a pretty good idea what Jesus is like. It\u2019s also pretty clear that people who call themselves Christians (I read somewhere that means little Christs) should look and act like Jesus.<\/p>\n