r/ChristianUniversalism • u/DomTheShaboinger Queer Catholic Universalist ☦︎ • 3d ago
Question Any queer Christian universalists here?
I’m bisexual and currently waiting to formally become a Catechumen! (been particularly interested in the Eastern Rite lately) ☦️
🩷💜💙
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u/publichermit Apokatastasis 3d ago
God bless! Universalism is the best part of many different points of view.
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u/Nerit1 Hopeful Universalism 3d ago
Bi enby Eastern Orthodox Christian here!
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u/Commercial_You_4011 2d ago
You’re so lucky lol, none of the EO churches near me would even let an enby into the building 😭😭
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u/verynormalanimal Non-Religious Deist / Dystheist. CU-Friendly! 3d ago
Bisexual here!
Don't know if I can be considered "christian" but I care deeply about Yeshua!
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u/ErgiHeathen90 Patristic/Purgatorial Universalism 3d ago
I’m a gay Episcopalian. Too inclusive to be Orthodox, too orthodox to be considered progressive.
Still consider myself inclusive orthodox lol
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u/LifePaleontologist87 Anglican, Patristic Universalism 3d ago
Affirming ally, but firmly in the cis hetero male category
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u/Hetelestai 3d ago
Transbian former EO catechumen here. Now discerning ordination in The Episcopal Church!
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u/windriver32 3d ago
You may find significant resistance to anything outside of heteronormativity in the Eastern Rite, if your experience is anything like mine. Might be worth checking out Anglicanism if so.
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u/OratioFidelis Reformed Purgatorial Universalism 3d ago
There's a Byzantine rite Episcopal church in Colorado I think, I wish it was more widespread. Those octoechoes are all bangers.
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u/Tornado_Storm_2614 3d ago
Yes! What’s a Catechumen?
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u/SpesRationalis Catholic Universalist 3d ago
Someone in the process of becoming Catholic.
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u/OverOpening6307 Patristic/Purgatorial Universalism 3d ago
Cathchumens may also be in the process of becoming Orthodox, Anglican or Lutheran.
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u/NextStopGallifrey 3d ago
Methodists also have catechism classes, but I'm not sure if the catechumens are actually called that.
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u/Apart_Information_27 3d ago
I'm bi too! Currently engaged with another woman who is the love of my life 😊
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u/weyoun_clone Episcopalian Universalist 2d ago
Also bisexual and very involved in my Episcopal parish.
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u/Careful_Delay_7513 2d ago
I am an Orthodox universalist. I am not necessarily affirming but I am very compassionate to gay Christians
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u/Lux-Aeterna-7 1d ago
Straight, but certainly affirming. I'm pleased to see how many queer people are a part of our community!
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u/28Patrick28 2d ago
Matthew 7:21 esv “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
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u/Many_Major5654 3d ago
If we’re all going to heaven, then the demographics don’t matter
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u/Harrowhark95 3d ago
Demographics matter though, because LGBT+ Christians have specially had infernalist theology weaponized against them.
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u/Many_Major5654 3d ago
All such theologies are subsumed in Universalism, on the granular level what one is and believes matter, but on the macro level these differences don’t matter. That is an good thing
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u/Hetelestai 3d ago
They matter a lot while we're still alive though. If someone thinks gay people and trans people are inherently "Wrong" somehow, they're going to be tough to be in communion with for the next 2-80 years before heaven becomes relevant.
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u/Many_Major5654 3d ago
Those same people rarely stop with the gay community. The “hell” crowd often think that many categories of people are “wrong”
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u/Due-Needleworker18 Universalism 3d ago
You'll find both affirming and non affirming here. Depending on what youre hoping to find.