James Finn
1 min readFeb 2, 2024

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We queer people are not asking for mercy either from God or from you. As you well know, Christian doctrine teaches that sins are things that need to be repented from and then refrained from.

You are trying to pull wool over my eyes by telling me that we're "all" sinners. Sins are immoral acts. Since our evil things.

We queer people are neither immoral nor evil because we are queer. Your comment presupposes that we are, and that people should accept us because they should forgive us.

Do you genuinely think that decent people want to associate with folks like you who make that sort of sad, discouraging, and rather disgusting kind of judgement?

We queer people have done nothing to be forgiven for, being queer does not make us sinful.

We are perfect and perfectly moral just the way we are. As I said before, you can't acknowledge that, if all you can do is say that you should love the sinner while you hate our sin, then you are telling us there is something worthy of hatred in our innermost nature.

Sad, discouraging, and a little disgusting. As I said.

If I've got it wrong, and you don't actually believe that we're sinful because we're queer, why don't you just say that clearly? It's a heck of a lot easier than all the contortions you're trying to go through.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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