Season 5 Ep. 13: Church Sh!t
This week’s #QueerRelationshipGoals is a first for us: we highlight a couple living in Israel! This Tel Aviv-based couple has everything we love about love and they are totally worth the follow! Go check out Itzik (@itzik_tlv) and his husband Eli (@eliraz27) on IG and let them know the Critellis sent you. Then, Marko and Tony enter the virtual church for a difficult conversation about what the tabernacle of trauma has meant to them (and to a lot of other queer people). We review some interesting statistics about how many queer people still hold the faith. You might be surprised by the facts! Finally, we talk with pastor Jordan Floro (@jordanfloro), neighbor, good guy, and modern church leader. Listen while he acknowledges the less-than-inclusive queer experience with church and what he thinks about the issue. Laugh, heal, and perhaps feel a little spirituality as we talk further about this difficult issue.
Articles:
USA Today: American Churches Must Reject Literalism and Admit We Got It Wrong On Gay People
Pew Research Center: National Congregations Study Finds More Church Acceptance of Gays and Lesbians
NBC News: Nearly Half of LGBTQ Adults Are Religious, U.S. Study Finds
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