How can you be queer and catholic?

It's my most asked question, how do you strike a balance between a queer and a catholic identity? 

The most simple answer is: by being Queer and Catholic. 

I admit that's comically simple and mildly circular in logic but the simplicity is designed to dismantle years of systematic marginalization. 

Clergy have used quote after quote pulling from biblical passages, long-dead saints, and just pulling rational out of their ass for centuries. All to create an intellectual barrier between queerness and God. 

There is a palpable irony in telling your followers that your [canonically] gender-fluid God demands a strict binary from those “Made in His image”. To bring this back to a grounded discussion, after a recent Mother Angelica video found its way to my FYP, I got lost thinking about the church’s stance on being gay. 

Susincly, the Chuch takes no issue with “being gay”, seeing as it would break their internal logic. The belief compounds upon itself thusly: 

1. God made humanity in the exact likeness of God. 

2. God is perfect and all things in creation fall perfectly into God’s perfect plan (God can’t make mistakes). 

Now you think that’s where the logic would stop; people, as they are, are perfect in the eyes of god. They, as God’s creation, are perfectly designed for a niche purpose in God’s plan. Therefore there’s nothing wrong with them acting in alignment with their authentic self. 

Unfortunately, the church doesn't stop there, do they? Propped up on translated, rewritten, and questionably sourced bible passages, they affirm that humanity’s only function in God’s plan is to reproduce; to make more believers. 

The logic path then becomes: 

1. God made humanity in the exact likeness of God. 

2. God is perfect and all things in creation fall perfectly into God’s perfect plan (God can’t make mistakes). 

3. God didn't think about you choosing to do butt stuff (He's forgetful), sooo just don't have sex and also be silent about your sexual identity. 

There's an insidious thought here, that queer people should hold their identity close to the chest. To keep your “carnal desires” silent. Equating a nuanced experience encompassing gender identity and sexuality to simple lust.

Weakening your strawman is an effective tactic. Holding up the seemingly simple truth that Queer = lust makes it easier to jump to Queer = sin. 

Now we get to the real issue is being sexually active in a pleaure-centric way sinful?

My opinion, hell no.