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My God is definitely not a bully.
My God is not a bully.
My God is not a bully.
Um, well, when I saw the question, it was first, like, was I supposed to realize like
there wasn't a gift from God? I'm like [laughs] oh my momma raised me, so I just thought about
when I was a kid, like um, and being around *** people when I was a kid even though
I didn't have that language.
Everybody was a gift from God, that's how I was raised and, um, you just had to love
and respect people the way you wanted to be loved and respected, so I didn't realize the
world was so harsh against people who had different *** orientations or gender expression
until I got older, like to be able to understand it. I just thought, you know, they were people
and people just loved people, you know, I guess young, naïve and childish, and then
when I got older, I'm like, "Oh my God! This is how you treat people?" and I'd say by the
time I got to high school, about 14, I'm like, "Oh my God! People treat people different
because they same gender loving or because they express themselves the way they want
to?" It was something I wasn't used to because I wasn't raised in a household like that.
Being ***, from *** orientation to gender expression, is not about anyone else, it's
about you, and however you want to deal with that in relation to your faith is between
you and God and nobody else, and no one else can interpret your relationship between you
and God. That's just for you and God, like, no man, no person can come in between that.
And their views are their views and that's going to be between them and God.
So there's been times where I do, you know the work that I do with advocacy work with
*** folks, that people would ask me, people who are straight, um, do I believe in homosexuality,
and I'm like, I didn't know, I didn't know it was a practice or a faith, like, it's an
identity. It's like "do you believe in blackness?" [laughs] It just is, right, and, um, I challenge
those folks with saying "How don't you know that your brothers and sisters who are ***,
um, aren't a test from God for you to measure your love for humanity?" so that's usually
what I say.