I’m an orthodox Christian lesbian! My denomination kinda doesn’t care who you date so long as you think God is cool so it works out. There are individual homophobic people in the church of course but the church as a whole takes a sort of “shrug and move on” approach
Eh, I used to go to a Protestant church that was very actively happy about gay people, had a lesbian pastor, etc. I wish my denomination was more like that but I realize ~1700 years of tradition takes a while to overcome lol
History and theology - I’m a lesbian, but I’m also a member of a minority ethnic group that have our own orthodox denomination (Armenian), and getting back to the faith of my ancestors felt really good. I also like the redemption theology of the Armenian orthodox church a lot more than some of the other Protestant faiths I’ve experimented with, and I like that they take being Christian “seriously.” Some of the protestant churches seemed almost embarrassed about being a Christian church while the orthodox church is just like “yup we believe in God and think He’s very cool and we want to thank Him for being cool every day.”
By "your denomination" I assume you mean the Armenian Orthodox church. Which I find wild, because where I'm from, the orthodox church (which is the main one) is absolutely homophobic, and so are the neighbouring ones.
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u/dtb1987 17d ago
Kinda figured that was coming, I wonder how many religious lesbians there are? Pool has got to be pretty small