The Big Book of Gay

The best gays are religous gays

*Claps* I'm proud of you bro.

Article is in an external link down below, not my article but USA Today's.

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MILWAUKEE — A Roman Catholic Sunday and to the rest of the world Monday in a first-person column in .

The Rev. Gregory Greiten of St. Bernadette Catholic church here said he was breaking the silence of gay men in the clergy so he could reclaim his own voice.

"I am Greg. I am a Roman Catholic priest. And, yes, I am gay!" he told worshipers Sunday. He received a standing ovation.

While gay men do serve as priests, rarely does priest to come out to his parishioners in this way. In his column, Greiten shares an estimate from The Changing Face of the Priesthood of 8,554 and 21,571 gay Catholic priests in the United States.

Church theology teaches that acting upon homosexuality is a sin. All priests take a vow of celibacy.

In announcing his identity as a gay man, Greiten chastised the Catholic Church for its stance on homosexuality.

By choosing to enforce silence, the institutional church pretends that gay priests and religious do not really exist. Because of this, there are no authentic role models of healthy, well-balanced, gay, celibate priests to be an example for those, young and old, who are struggling to come to terms with their sexual orientation.

This only perpetuates the toxic shaming and systemic secrecy.

Greiten wrote that he stands with the "few courageous priests who have taken the risk to come out of the shadows and have chosen to live in truth and authenticity.

"In 2015, the Rev. Warren Hall, who came out in a story a year after the incident, was removed as campus minister at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., when he supported a Facebook group that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and racial justice. He was reassigned to a Hoboken, N.J., parish, but reported that the Newark, N.J., archbishop suspended him in September 2016 after Hall expressed support for a Catholic school staffer and girls basketball coach who had been fired for being in a same-sex marriage.

"The problem is that we have an archbishop who doesn't believe you can be gay and Catholic," Hall wrote in an email to after the suspension. On Dec. 8, 2016, the reiterated a decision from 2005 that men with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" shouldn't become become seminarians, the first step on the path to priesthood.

The Rev. Steve Wolf, pastor of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Clarksville, Tenn., led a retreat last month for gay Catholic clergy and congregational leaders in Racine, Wis., coming out beyond his own diocese in a to promote the conference.

Whether Greiten will face any consequences for his admission likely will depend on Milwaukee's archbishop, the Most Rev. Jerome Listecki. Before talking to his parishioners publishing his column, Greiten made a point to meet with Milwaukee Listecki to tell him what he planned to do, an archdiocese spokeswoman said.

In a statement Monday, Listecki backed Greiten's decision to share his sexuality with his parish.

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When a man proud of his religion and sexuality comes out to his homophobic pals, you know the world's changing for the good.

(This applies to All genders and Agenders too)

As a person who's been surrounded by a hardcore Hindu culture for fucking forever, I bet people other queer people of other religions feel the same way.

Coming out in a religious anti-change, you-must-do-life-in-only-this-fucking-way-or-you-go-to-fucking-hell religion is fucking scary.

Or in other words, religions that believe you must follow your 'destiny' or 'dharma' as a 'girl' 'boy' 'future husband of a girl' 'future wife of a boy' or some other shit like that.

And what happens when you try to break the mold? When you aren't cis? When you aren't 

You're thrown in a fucking boxing ring without boxing glove, when your opponent has a trucking  automatic assault rifle.

Or in other words, you're fucked.

Being different from the mold of your religion makes you question yourself, 'Am i wrong?' 'Do i even matter?'

'Why am i alive?'

You also most likely denied it for like, forever until that one gay crush came along....

And then you know you're fucked.

Cause you come out, you're fucked, you won't be called a real follower of your religon, and will be called an outcast, in your own eyes.

And then you start to wonder if you can be queer and a follower of your religon  at the same time, if your exitsance violates it, and you're essentially the devil.

Well here's the thing.

Your gayness doesn't affect your worship.

Only the people that are interpreting the worship  are affecting you.

Your religon, Christian, Hindu, or Islam, should always accept you, no matter who you are. Diversity is a part of life created by you God/gods, and your God/gods would certainly never make you exist if you were unnatural or fucking demon spawn.

You're natural.

You're amazing.

You're a true believer

Because you still stick with your religion, even if everyone else rejects you, and only the best of people can deal with the harassment every single day.

You, pal, are a true follower.

So gosh damnit, yes, you can be gay and a follower of your religion no matter what.

Remember that the next time someone throws a homophobic rant in your place of worship.

- An athiest/agnostic person who seriously shouldn't rant on bout this AKA Mystic