Short story here is that my wife may simply not be coming to church for the near future because she just can't deal with the stupid trauma of it. I mean we get that they're not affirming etc etc but that's something that can be worked on and hopefully they won't be *rude* about it. But anyway what happened is the priest made a passing snide remark about "identity". And it's like, that wasn't a fair representation of others to make, and even if you were right, if I brought (say) a lesbian friend today they would just be insulted, not edified. So she just decided that it's not worth the mental effort anymore to show up. #religion

And I can't really blame her. If you can't bring your friends to church, what's the point? If you want come without having to deal with psychological trauma, why bother? Maybe it'll even out over time. Maybe it won't. But it's like, you know, we do believe in God regardless, and a God bigger than this who we think will guide the church out of this nonsense, but too many people are getting put through the grinder in the interim and I don't blame somebody who doesn't want to be one of them for staying out of it. #religion #christianity #sigh