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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Ms. Toad
(35,193 posts)responses like yours - and some more explicit about a divide between faith and LGBT people - feel more like a challenge to the work most people of faith have engaged in to reconcile two important pieces of who we are. Many of us struggled for years believing that we must choose between our spiritual lives and our sexuality, and many of us now reject that dichotomy. So the implication suggestion that the presence of many religion oriented threads has been hurtful to me is a message that is, ultimately, hurtful. It implies - in the guise of offering support - that my struggles were in vain because in order to support the LGBT part of who I am you believe you have to reject the faith part of who I am.
As I say, I appreciate the urge to offer support - but since some of those threads have accused me, because of my position on "je suis Charlie" of being anti-LGBT, I'm not feeling terribly supported as an LGBT individual for reasons other than the presence of many religion oriented threads.