One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with empathy, or that “I feel sorry the devil has made his home in your heart” cause you have not felt joy until you’ve flipped the script on a suburban house mom or an old racist white man. The joy of watching their face in shock and confusion while they’re called out in Christian Standards the same way they try to cover for their homophobia is amazing. 100% suggest it, at the very least it gets them to shut the fuck up.
I have to try this.
This is also nice as like…a queer person who is actually religious. It’s challenging homophobes while also reaffirming to yourself (and any other queer ppl who might be in the mix) that God is supposed to be of love and compassion and mercy, not what we’re told growing up by hateful people.
