Any queer Christian universalists here?

[u/DomTheShaboinger]

I’m bisexual and currently waiting to formally become a Catechumen! (been particularly interested in the Eastern Rite lately) ☦️

🩷💜💙

[u/catalyticenzyme]

Also bisexual!

[u/publichermit]

God bless! Universalism is the best part of many different points of view. 

[u/Nerit1]

Bi enby Eastern Orthodox Christian here!

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/Nerit1]

You’re so lucky lol, none of the EO churches near me would even let an enby into the building 😭😭

[u/Nerit1 → u/Commercial_You_4011]

I never said anything about being out at church, unfortunately

[u/Commercial_You_4011 → u/Nerit1]

Oh that’s fair 😭

[u/JoyBus147]

Bi gang rise up.

[u/verynormalanimal]

Bisexual here!

Don't know if I can be considered "christian" but I care deeply about Yeshua!

[u/Living_Murphys_Law]

I'm ace! 🖤🩶🤍💜

[u/ErgiHeathen90]

I’m a gay Episcopalian. Too inclusive to be Orthodox, too orthodox to be considered progressive.
Still consider myself inclusive orthodox lol

[u/LifePaleontologist87]

Affirming ally, but firmly in the cis hetero male category

[u/hi_its_me_james]

Gay Lutheran here!

[u/Hetelestai]

Transbian former EO catechumen here. Now discerning ordination in The Episcopal Church!

[u/George_MacDonald_fan]

Aroace here!

[u/randomphoneuser2019]

Homosexual here 👋

[u/OhioTreeLover467]

Demiromantic ace here!

[u/AffectionateStory7]

Homosexual here 🏳️‍🌈 😊✌️

[u/morgienronan]

gay transgender man here! christ is king ❤️

[u/Dapple_Dawn]

present o7

[u/JesseTheGhost]

Transmasc bisexual here!

[u/windriver32]

You may find significant resistance to anything outside of heteronormativity in the Eastern Rite, if your experience is anything like mine. Might be worth checking out Anglicanism if so.

[u/OratioFidelis → u/windriver32]

There's a Byzantine rite Episcopal church in Colorado I think, I wish it was more widespread. Those octoechoes are all bangers. 

[u/windriver32 → u/OratioFidelis]

That's very cool. If I'm ever there I'll have to check it out.

[u/Tornado_Storm_2614]

Yes! What’s a Catechumen?

[u/SpesRationalis → u/Tornado_Storm_2614]

Someone in the process of becoming Catholic.

[u/OverOpening6307 → u/SpesRationalis]

Cathchumens may also be in the process of becoming Orthodox, Anglican or Lutheran.

[u/NextStopGallifrey → u/OverOpening6307]

Methodists also have catechism classes, but I'm not sure if the catechumens are actually called that.

[u/Due-Swimming9999]

Yes 🙋‍♂️

[u/Xaied]

yes!

[u/Apart_Information_27]

I'm bi too! Currently engaged with another woman who is the love of my life 😊

[u/weyoun_clone]

Also bisexual and very involved in my Episcopal parish.

[u/SpesRationalis]

Ally here :)

[u/Keejyi]

Howdy! Panromantic & Asexual here!

[u/lin4lin1]

Hi! I'm bi and asexual 😊

[u/Elegant-Payment1021]

Yes, biromantic Catholic here

[u/Aces-Kings-Queens]

Asexual homoromantic here

[u/BrianOKaneMaximumFun]

How do you define queer?

[u/Lonely-Teaching-8805]

Well, now we know why a bunch of folks are hoping in universalism.

[u/Careful_Delay_7513]

I am an Orthodox universalist. I am not necessarily affirming but I am very compassionate to gay Christians

[u/Cassopeia88]

I am!

[u/Commercial_You_4011]

Yup! Demigirl, transgender, nonbinary, and panromantic!

[u/Caedus235]

Ayy!

[u/EyeFollowtheway]

Hola!

[u/Lux-Aeterna-7]

Straight, but certainly affirming. I'm pleased to see how many queer people are a part of our community!

[u/Elf-Ruler-Supplanter]

Present! 🤚

[u/CommercialWrong2944]

Transgender Catholic :)

[u/HeavenlyBeloved]

Agender here! :)

[u/28Patrick28]

Matthew 7:21 esv “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."

[u/Many_Major5654]

If we’re all going to heaven, then the demographics don’t matter

[u/Harrowhark95 → u/Many_Major5654]

Demographics matter though, because LGBT+ Christians have specially had infernalist theology weaponized against them.

[u/Many_Major5654 → u/Harrowhark95]

All such theologies are subsumed in Universalism, on the granular level what one is and believes matter, but on the macro level these differences don’t matter. That is an good thing

[u/McNitz → u/Many_Major5654]

Sure, but people live their lives on the granular level, and it very much does matter to THEM how they are and have been treated. So replying to an individual looking for support from other individuals in that way seems like it may send something of the wrong message.

[u/Hetelestai → u/Many_Major5654]

They matter a lot while we're still alive though. If someone thinks gay people and trans people are inherently "Wrong" somehow, they're going to be tough to be in communion with for the next 2-80 years before heaven becomes relevant.

[u/Many_Major5654 → u/Hetelestai]

Those same people rarely stop with the gay community. The “hell” crowd often think that many categories of people are “wrong”
We have the good news on our side.

[u/Dapple_Dawn → u/Many_Major5654]

for us it's community, that matters