Can one be gay/lesbian/bi/transgender and still be a Christian Witch?

Well, I’ve known gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Christians and I’ve known gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Witches, so I suppose one could also be a gay/lesbian/bi/transgender Christian Witch. I’ve never meet one, seeing how I’m the only Christian Witch I have ever meet personally, and I’m very straight.

I’m straight, and until about 5 years ago, had never even heard of gay or would have ever imagined that such a thing existed. (Yes, I did grow up in extreme isolation from society, I was 27 years old before I had contact with people outside of my 264 member family and the local church we attended; I guess I grew up in what people would call a “cult community”). My first confrontation with “gay” as anything other than “joyful” occurred when I escaped from my family’s weird lifestyle after I had realized that it was not normal for a family to live with all of it’s multi generations without contact with non family members. Once free from them, I committed the unspeakable sin of getting a job (I’m a female, working jobs is forbidden) and made an attempt to try to live in the “real world”. (I now look at my extended family and realize that they are living in their own little private “bubble” and have no real idea what life outside of that bubble is like at all!)

For me, life outside the family was desperately confusing: no one in the world dressed like we did, talked like we did, had the high morals we did, or acted like we did. I find myself constantly having to explain why I speak an ancient style of English (very King James Bible), why I wear the clothes I wear (not too unlike Jesus himself), why I don’t drive a car, why I don’t know how to do “normal” things like crossing a sidewalk or knowing when some one is speaking to me and I should speak back (talking at all is very rare for me) or how to do math and count money. Getting my job at Macy’s was frustrating, but I am a good learner and quickly picked up on the “clues” in people around me.

Well, my job at Macy’s confronted me with this alternate meaning of “being gay”, when one co worker whispered to me “He’s gay.” while pointing over to another co worker. Baffled at how this depressed looking man could have any joy in his heart at all, I pointed out that he was the farthest thing from happy. We both remained puzzled over each others words for a few weeks, until our boss came in one day and said he had to leave early to pickup his boyfriend. The concept of him having a boyfriend totally threw me for a loop, and my co worker explained “he’s gay”. I was deeply confused about why she kept calling these clearly unhappy non-joyful people “gay” and it occurred to her that I had no idea what she was saying to me. Explanation time, and ah-huh! I was not aware of the new alternate meaning of the word “gay” before, but once I understood that there was a second meaning, her calling people “gay” suddenly made sense to me.

So, while I admit I do not understand the concept of how any one could be attracted to a person of the same gender, I do know that this is America where one has the freedom to live whatever lifestyle you choose, so if they are not harming those around them and they are not preventing the rights of freedom from others, who am I to tell them what lifestyle they should live? I’ve long been known for my “equal rights attitude” on pretty much everything, and I’m not going to point the finger and say some one is not a Christian because they also happen to be gay.

I do however question why any one feels the need to tell anyone what type of sex life they lead. It just seems like they are boasting loudly about their sex life, because they themselves are not certain about it, otherwise why would they tell any one at all?

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