The problem of anti-Gay hostility in the world is Christianity and other Abrahamic religions. We need to stop fooling around.
Recent events showing the continuing inability of the LGBTQXYZ+ and others to protect the Gay community necessitates that we consider what needs to be done to protect the Gay community now.
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What is the force driving the attacks on the Gay community globally?
There isn’t an organized secular movement against Gays in the world today in 2025. Or at least there isn’t one significant enough to be noticed.
There isn’t a major non-Abrahamic religion that targets Gays or requires convoluted theological arguments to explain the homophobia in their religious texts away. There have been some statements made by leaders in these other religions which are negative, but they are of very minor effect and not the basis of some organized anti-Gay activity. In nations which don’t predominately have Abrahamic religions, anti-Gay laws are from the colonial era and have been getting repealed.
Of the two religions, the Christian religion has a much larger negative impact towards Gays. The impact of Islam is confined to certain regions of the world; Christianity is really global.
The ongoing attacks against Gays around the world are driven directly or indirectly by Christian and Islamic groups.
If these two religions ceased to be significant, most, if not nearly all, of the anti-Gay campaigns would cease.
Of the two major religious groups, Islam and Christianity, Islam is mostly located in nations where they repressively dominate and would be extremely difficult to challenge.
The primary problem the Gay community has is Christianity.
Christianity is mostly in places where there is already open criticism of Christianity, where often they have experienced a decline already, and in nations which are mostly secular. There is strategic opportunity go target Christianity.
The Gay community does oppose other anti-Gay movements.
We have no problems in rejecting Gay Nazis. We wouldn’t tolerate Gay Klan members. We would consider supporters of Russian President Putin, with his vicious hostility against Gays, to be traitors.
We have no objection to outing an Evangelical homophobe when we find out he is Gay.
The LGBTQXYZ+ establishment is rather opportunistic and quick to reject groups. The police aren’t allowed to march in the San Francisco Pride parade, even though it will be the police who we want to aggressively respond to Gay bashing. The Democrats are always asserting that a person can’t be both supportive of Gay rights and a Republican.
If Christianity could be brought down, the situation of Gays would improve greatly. There wouldn’t be any significant anti-Gay movement.
We would not have to depend on the success of one political party or movement over another. Likely all major movements and political parties in society would be concerned to convince Gays that they should support them.
Gays could focus more on self-development as individuals and as a community rather than endlessly fighting homophobic Christianity.
The solution to the current homophobic campaigns against us is obvious.
Christianity must be brought down.
Some objections to be considered
First Objection:
One of the concerns is that Gays involved in one movement or another frequently believe their movement is the movement for the Gay community. The Gay Marxists used to try to convince everyone that there could be no Gay liberation without the overthrow of capitalism. Gay Democrats have always thought that the Gay movement is a department of the Democratic Party.
I am agnostic, not atheist. I believe given the limited knowledge we have of the universe and the limited ability of the mind there might be something which if not a God or divine, something beyond the ordinary material world. I don’t believe that there is any good evidence of the divine or something beyond the ordinary material world though. I am not some hard-core atheist ideologue. I am not trying to hijack the Gay movement for atheism. I am trying, without much success, to mobilize Gay atheists to do something effective about homophobic Christianity.
I am also telling the Gay atheists to consider the Buddhist, Hindus, Taoists and some others as allies in fighting homophobic Christianity.
I believe that some people will always be religious. The goal isn’t to get people to give up religion, the goal is to have them not be in homophobic religions. If they adopt some other religion that is fine as long as it isn’t anti-Gay.
I also have a Substack newsletter Gay Temple.
Click on the image to see the Gay Temple newsletter.
About one-quarter of Gays aren’t members of any denomination or religious group, but consider themselves spiritual (Not sure what that means.) I am concerned that they get organized and be more effective. I think that Gays need more choices than Christianity and atheism. I think some people will always be religious; it would be good for Gays to choose a religion that doesn’t have problems with homosexuality. Thus, I started the newsletter, Gay Temple.
Even with the Gay Christians I would like to have a dialogue about their practices that undermine the Gay community and also how they might change their efforts.
I have a Gay Agenda, not an atheist agenda.
My program begins and ends with what will protect the Gay community.
Second Objection:
You are pushing Gay Christians out of the community. I am not. They can stay; they can be in Pride parades.
However, their personal issue with being Gay and Christians isn’t the agenda of the overall Gay community.
Their personal agenda can’t be allowed to block an effective defense of the Gay community.
Third objection:
There is the claim that Christianity is changing, there is no reason to campaign against Christianity. The reporting on Gay Christians and Gay issues in the Christian religion gives an impression that significant progress is being made.
The reality is that what change that is happening is very small and incremental and slow and is limited to a small branch of Christianity confined to the Western world.
The reality is that globally nearly most of the Christian denominations and members are anti-Gay and currently there is no reason to hope that will change in any Gay person’s life time, in the 21st century.
In the United States, each time they point out some major Protestant denomination has decided to accept Gays, it is also mentioned that each time the denomination accepting Gays has shattered into pieces.
The progress with Protestants, has only been with mainstream Protestant denominations which are in decline. Among the Evangelicals, Reformed, Fundamentalist and other Protestants, there has been very little or no progress.
The Roman Catholic church is about 50% of all Christians. They still think homosexuality to be a sin; they still are campaigning against Gay marriage.
The Eastern Orthodox churches are about another 10% and very hostile.
It is 46 years since the Stonewall Riot and the start of the modern Gay rights movement, objectively looking at Christianity, by the numbers, even in the United States, the progress has been miniscule.
When I doing the Houses of Hate project of sections of Dallas, what became evident is that when I did a map of a neighborhood, out of 8 to 10 churches, only one would not be anti-Gay. What you see as you map the churches is that Christianity in Dallas is a near monolith of homophobia with a church here or there that is an exception.
This is a directory post of the posts I have done where I map a neighborhood’s houses of hate. Click on the image.
The priority of those who would insist on accepting the slow progress of changing Christian opinion versus bringing down homophobic Christianity, is a priority Christianity over the Gay community.
Fourth objection:
Christianity has been around for twenty centuries and there is nothing we can do about it is often claimed.
For starters, most of those centuries Christianity hasn’t faced social change. Since the French Enlightenment, when society starts changing, ceases to be Medieval, Christianity has been declining.
If we look at Christianity along an axis of social change, we can see that it isn’t so immortal as they might represent themselves. The title is time and Christianity. How it is vulnerable and not immortal. See it on the axis of social change.
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In Western Europe Christianity has already declined greatly to be a remnant of what it was. In the United States of America Christianity is already in rapid decline and one of the reasons is Christianity’s homophobia.
Manichaeism was once a major world religion named after its prophet Mani. At one time it was the most widespread religion in the world from Western Europe to Central Asia to China. Now it is only known to a small specialist group of academic historians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
The major rebuttal to this objection is that, we haven’t even tried, we haven’t even thought of trying, or thought how it might be done.
The LGBTQXYZ+ establishment won’t consider it because their overlords, the Democrats, still hope to get some Christian groups even if it means trying to get homophobic Christian votes.
Evangelicals For Harris praised homophobes and sought the support of vicious homophobes. The LGBTQXYZ+ media ignored it as well as the Stonewall clubs.
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This Substack newsletter, Gay Atheist Action has been looking at different strategies to bring down Christianity. Not every idea will work, and some are niche, but again we aren’t trying them out to test them, and learn from those efforts and see which work and which don’t.
Gay Atheist Action newsletter. Click on this image.
Fifth Objection:
Not all Christians are homophobic. My reply is, so what?
Looking at it globally, a few percent of Christians aren’t homophobic. They are really not fighting for us, but doing a salvage operation for Christianity, to try to cling to Christianity while not rejecting Gay people, possibly a relative.
They aren’t going to have any significant effect in bringing to an end the Christian attacks on Gays that are happening globally.
The priority is to protect our community.
And protect the community right away.
Trying to wrestle out of the Bible some pro-Gay interpretation to convince people who don’t want to be convinced isn’t going to protect the Gay community.
Waiting, possibly centuries, before we adopt effective measures to protect the Gay community isn’t acceptable.
Christianity, looked at objectively, is sort of crazy. Christians are constantly sanitizing it by only looking at the sections they want to look at.
Looking at Christianity and taking on Christianity as whole offers many opportunities. Christianity carries a lot of baggage and it has abused and attacked many groups in its history. It is really vulnerable.
Are we to give up our best hope to stop being persecuted, in favor of those who refuse to recognize what Christianity is? No.
Should we tie both hands behind our back and wear a blindfold when we try to protect the Gay community? No.
A sort of variation on the not all Christians are homophobic, is an assertion that homophobic Christianity isn’t true Christianity. My reply is, so what?
A group of persons calling themselves Christians are attacking the Gay community. Persons calling themselves Christians have been attacking Gays and often killing them for 20 centuries. It is our responsibility to defend the Gay community and not to resolve what theological problems Christians might have or resolve what true Christianity is.
It is our responsibility to act expeditiously to defend the Gay community and not get dragged into and stuck in theological quagmires and inaction.
It is our responsibility to successfully defend the Gay community and not dither and delay over theological issues.
Plan of action
[1] Form a team to fight homophobic Christianity.
[2] Think of strategies on how to fight homophobic Christianity. I have been thinking and thinking for quite some time and have come up with a lot of ideas. However, I think I have done enough thinking already. Others need to start thinking about ideas.
[3] Start using the strategies we come up with and see which work, which don’t, and from our experiences refine or develop new strategies.
[4] Educate the Gay community that Christianity is the primary problem and why it needs to be a target of Gay activism.
[5] Educate the Gay community as to which tactics work and which tactics don’t work and what tactics actually enable or assist or empower homophobic Christianity and should be avoided.
[6] Compile resources that can be used to fight homophobic Christianity.
The above plan is very general; I want people to understand the plan overall.
Specific resources
In this post, there are links to other resources.
This is a book I wrote with a discussion of how to defeat homophobic Christianity.
Thank you for the thoughtfull information and suggestions on how we can protect the gay community. In the south (Mississippi is currently home but I am also an OTR truck driver and see alot of country) many churches have erected these huge metal white crosses. One church spent over 500k to have theirs built. I cringe every time I see one because I just see the hate. I think back to PETA and their paint attacks on people wearing fur and think these structures need to be pelted with black paint or something lol. Or erect a large Buddha. I bought s significant sized Buddha for my home in East TN and it knocked out most of the Christian door knockers. I was deemed beyond hope. I am also a former ordained Deacon in the Roman Catholic Church. I was reverted to lay state when I came out and told them I was married to a guy. I wasn't go to try and sell the sauce the church has that I wasn't able to drink. It took them 5 years to actually do anything but the Vatican finally got around to it. People are voting with their feet and churches are realizing hate doesn't sell long term. Religion does serve a meaningful purpose in the lives of many and it's elimination would leave many in need, in my opinion. I think we need a sharper response to those that use religious beliefs to take away rights of others or inflict harm. Why can't they just stick to thoughts and prayers like when there is a mass killing and leave us alone like they do the gun problem? I apologize if this too long. Hugs