>>39590597As a religious gay person, I can explain exactly why this is- when you're straight and cis, it's easy to just accept what the mainstream religious opinion is on lgbt people. You don't bat an eye when you're told it's bad, that those people are bad and that 'all they have to do' is be celibate because you don't have to stare down the barrel of that gun, yourself. As a result, you don't ever question your own religion. Whatever it says, or rather whatever you're told it says, you just accept without giving thought or mulling over it because the religion is literally easier for you. Nothing in it seems to condemn you and the rules seem to be laid out simply enough. Because of this, you don't ever actually develop that soul-deep devotion. That feeling in your bones and heart. It's just something you accept without thinking about it too much and can easily go through the motions. Lgbt religious people have to fight for their faith. Not only are you condemned by your religious peers, but every clergyman is telling you you're a sinner and the way you were taught to read whatever religious text you have leads you to read it in only one way. And all your lgbt peers walked away from religion years ago and wonder why you even bother with it. The entire world is telling you that either you're a dirty sinner and will go to hell unless you resign yourself to crushing loneliness or that religion is bullshit. If you can somehow get past this labyrinth of mental anguish, self-doubt and ostracization and still hold onto your faith (not to mention the endless hours of research over what your religion REALLY says about lgbt people and if all those old men in robes are really right or not), then you've put more effort into your faith than the vast majority of straight cis people who don't have to think about these things ever will. They're religious because it's what they were raised as. You're religious because you slayed a fucking dragon and refused to give it up.
