Division and Christianity: Can queers stop the need to exclude?

By John G.

More news coverage of division in the Episcopalian Church, globally and locally. I think that plenty of queers of faith and spiritual queers are speaking out about how the mainstream media only talks about LGBT people of faith when there’s some sort of conflict in the Christian church. I myself have written about it at length, as have many of my fellows on this site. Indeed, its important for us to continue to call the media on this bias, as making noise is the only way we’ll see change, in both better representation of the reality of Christian queers and also the much lacking representation of queers who express their faith/spirituality in ways other than Christianity.

But now that I’ve pointed out how this article fits into a trend in the media, I’d like to focus on the whole issue of conflict and division in the church. While queers of faith and spiritual queers are rightly indignant that we’re often portrayed as being at the center of division in the Christian church, we need to challenge more than just the media; we need to challenge the church itself. Obviously, right? I’m not talking about challenging the church or any denomination on its/their attitudes towards queers, but about its/their whole attitude on division.