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Pride: The Holy Courage to Stand Up for LGBT Liberation Creation's Paths
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Pride is a protest, a riot, a celebration, a rite of mourning. Pride is not hubris, it is the truest act of humility.
So many misunderstand the meaning and purpose of humility:
Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.
Alan Morinis, Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar, p. 45
LGBT Pride is humble. It inspires people to take up their rightful space, not too much or too little. In a culture that tells us we are worthless and lesser, it is a shout to inspire people to know their value. We have a right to exist, to be happy, to live our lives with no one telling us we are wrong.
I grew up hating myself. The church taught me my existence was a sin and hated by their false God. They embraced the demonic urge to hate and attack people who reject the forced conformity and lust for control and power.
Our duty to Christ and God is love. Love for God, for Christ, and for one another.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Jesus, John 15:12
Let all that you do be done in love.
Paul, 1 Corinthians 16:14
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
John, 1 John 4:16
So let’s talk about LGBT Pride.
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising crystalized the heart of the modern Queer Liberation Movement. It wasn’t the beginning, but it was the spark that lit the powder keg. The next year, the first Pride Marches started, and the movement carries on to this day.
Pride is the one thing that Allonormative. Amatonormative, Cisgender, Heterosexuals take for granted. It is baked into our culture. Where is the heterosexual pride? Most movies, music, books, video games, laws, and cultural institutions are designed to celebrate heterosexual and cisgender norms. Some even put in the effort to mock and denigrate those who don’t live up to those norms.
They assume children to be cisgender and heterosexual until they come out as something else. Our communities forcibly coerced many of us to conform to these expectations, and threaten to disown us or send us to conversion therapy if we do not deny ourselves and conform.
We are attacked, slandered, beaten, and killed for being who we are. That is why we need pride. With 500 bills to take away our rights in the states, we need Pride today more than ever.
Truth is empowering
Too many Christians and conservatives not only spread lies about us, but want us to live a lie rather than be who we are. They claim to be doing the Lord’s work, but the god that encourages lies is not the one who sent Jesus into the world. It is the one who reveled in his crucifixion.
They claim to follow the ten commandments, but ignore:
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Exodus 20:16
They can’t even be honest about this commandment saying that it is, “Do not lie.” The actual commandment is about giving false testimony against others. In other words, don’t slander people.
As a huge part of the upside down morality, they reject science and state their opinions as facts. I am not going to waste my time and energy debunking there lies. I will let Jessie Earl to that.
There is your homework if you need all the receipts.
Embracing Love and Inclusivity
Compassion and love are at the heart of Christ’s message.
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,to proclaim release to the captives,recovering of sight to the blind,to deliver those who are crushed,and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulf
Pride is a protest, a riot, a celebration, a rite of mourning. Pride is not hubris, it is the truest act of humility.
So many misunderstand the meaning and purpose of humility:
Occupy a rightful space, neither too much nor too little. Focus neither on your own virtues nor the faults of others.
Alan Morinis, Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar, p. 45
LGBT Pride is humble. It inspires people to take up their rightful space, not too much or too little. In a culture that tells us we are worthless and lesser, it is a shout to inspire people to know their value. We have a right to exist, to be happy, to live our lives with no one telling us we are wrong.
I grew up hating myself. The church taught me my existence was a sin and hated by their false God. They embraced the demonic urge to hate and attack people who reject the forced conformity and lust for control and power.
Our duty to Christ and God is love. Love for God, for Christ, and for one another.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Jesus, John 15:12
Let all that you do be done in love.
Paul, 1 Corinthians 16:14
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
John, 1 John 4:16
So let’s talk about LGBT Pride.
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising crystalized the heart of the modern Queer Liberation Movement. It wasn’t the beginning, but it was the spark that lit the powder keg. The next year, the first Pride Marches started, and the movement carries on to this day.
Pride is the one thing that Allonormative. Amatonormative, Cisgender, Heterosexuals take for granted. It is baked into our culture. Where is the heterosexual pride? Most movies, music, books, video games, laws, and cultural institutions are designed to celebrate heterosexual and cisgender norms. Some even put in the effort to mock and denigrate those who don’t live up to those norms.
They assume children to be cisgender and heterosexual until they come out as something else. Our communities forcibly coerced many of us to conform to these expectations, and threaten to disown us or send us to conversion therapy if we do not deny ourselves and conform.
We are attacked, slandered, beaten, and killed for being who we are. That is why we need pride. With 500 bills to take away our rights in the states, we need Pride today more than ever.
Truth is empowering
Too many Christians and conservatives not only spread lies about us, but want us to live a lie rather than be who we are. They claim to be doing the Lord’s work, but the god that encourages lies is not the one who sent Jesus into the world. It is the one who reveled in his crucifixion.
They claim to follow the ten commandments, but ignore:
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
Exodus 20:16
They can’t even be honest about this commandment saying that it is, “Do not lie.” The actual commandment is about giving false testimony against others. In other words, don’t slander people.
As a huge part of the upside down morality, they reject science and state their opinions as facts. I am not going to waste my time and energy debunking there lies. I will let Jessie Earl to that.
There is your homework if you need all the receipts.
Embracing Love and Inclusivity
Compassion and love are at the heart of Christ’s message.
The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to heal the broken hearted,to proclaim release to the captives,recovering of sight to the blind,to deliver those who are crushed,and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulf
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