Three Black LGBTQIA+ faith leaders may have had very different backgrounds, but they shared a common belief that God loves them as they are.
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"The pastor talked about God being of love," Floyd said."I never heard condemnation. I never heard that who I was was an abomination.""I knew in my family, being gay was ... a one-way ticket to hell. That's what I was raised to believe," Adams said."I tried to push that all down and be what they wanted me to be, but that didn't work out too well."
Though each followed a unique path toward a life of faith, Floyd said all three share a belief that their sexualities and spiritualities can and should coexist.The intersection of these identities, however, comes with its challenges. "Most of the antisemitism that I get actually comes from other people claiming to be Jewish," she added."I think faith is the hardest thing that queer people deal with," Floyd said."When you walk into a room of queer people and you say that you are a clergyperson -- it's like the air gets sucked out of the room. They don't know what to do with that."
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