As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category… Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren’t good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn’t actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category… Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren’t good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn’t actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
