I’m coming to all this as a lesbian convert to Catholicism. You’ve had to try to understand both your sexuality and your faith in the midst of misinformation and deadly silence. If you’re an LGBT person who was raised Christian, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve never heard a leader in your church welcome LGBT people, trusting that people like you were in the pews and encouraging their faith. But as I’ve gotten to know LGBT people who were raised in Christian families, I’ve started to see how this incredibly common sentiment can damage people’s hearts and lives - because they were taught that the God of love couldn’t acknowledge them. Sometimes you feel like it’s the most profound thing in the world sometimes you feel like it’s a stale marshmallow, sweet at first but then dissolving on your tongue into bland nothingness. This is one of those things everybody’s heard.
