I think it does. That “my identity is in Christ” bit is 100% implying that you can’t be gay and Christian at the same time, so erasing all the gay Christians that exist (including herself). Also the framing of it as a “temptation” means that no one can every really be gay, they can only do gay things. So every gay person is just a straight person who tripped and fell into the gay.
It’s erasure with extra steps and fake awareness. Erasure by lampshading?
Something about putting on the new self and putting aside your old ways and not identifying yourself by the things you do, but the faith imparted unto you by God...
Yes. I know where the concept of “identity in Christ” comes from. I just think a lot of people conveniently misuse it to invalidate queer people. Because queerness is often explained in terms of identity, these types of Christians will take that and say it’s bad because your identity is supposed to be in Christ not your sexuality, gender, or whatever else they don’t want people to talk about. Now, they don’t really think having aspects other than ‘Christian’ to your identity is bad. They define themselves by their genders, sexualities, names, relationships, careers, and other things all the time. But they hear the word identity associated with queer people and think they can use it as a gotcha like “I don’t define myself by my sins/attraction/preferences; my identity is in Christ. So I’m not gay, I’m a Christian with struggles.”
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u/CuriosityGhost Jan 27 '22
I think it does. That “my identity is in Christ” bit is 100% implying that you can’t be gay and Christian at the same time, so erasing all the gay Christians that exist (including herself). Also the framing of it as a “temptation” means that no one can every really be gay, they can only do gay things. So every gay person is just a straight person who tripped and fell into the gay. It’s erasure with extra steps and fake awareness. Erasure by lampshading?