Evan Urquhart

A very wise woman once told me "You will never have to choose between loving God and loving people. But you might have to choose between loving people and loving tidy theological systems." I hate being reminded how many people choose the theology.

I've been engaging a lot with Catholic twitter, for a number of reasons, a good bit lately; there's been the bitter disappointment of seeing more and more, with outsider eyes, how much the Church, as a movement, has been hijacked by Cruelty Is The Point conservatives.

(credit for the quote goes to @SnapPopCrackle)

I left the Church because I felt, fundamentally, that I wasn't welcome; the Church's perpetual panic over the mere existence of gay people being gay inspired little confidence that they'd ever be cool with trans folk. And I'm not just talking institutionally, or about Francis.

I used to live and breathe the Catholic internet, pinging around blogs and forums and on and on and on. And I watched, as 2014 and 2015 unrolled, the strange confluence of me coming to terms with my queerness during a full-throated assault against trans people in the Church.

SIDEBAR: People who want to attack religion *as such* in this thread, please do so elsewhere. You are not helping. This is not the place.

Honestly, even in the bastions of sanity I see within the church, particularly @chezami and his little band of faithful rebels, compassion for LGBT people might be more prevalent, but the conviction that it is "objectively disordered" remains.