Lol so I'm scheduling a first date with a straight-identifying guy and he suggested going to dinner at restaurant in a well known gay neighborhood... I disclosed to him already but I always pass. Still I worry he chose that area because it's less likely to judge/be weird for him? Am I overthinking this? Maybe he just likes the restaurant?
Watching the Firebells inaugural game and my jaw hit the floor when Matt Williams ran out!! I'm pretty over the Giants rn so it feels good to watch some baseball again. LET'S GO BELLS / FTQ??
EDIT: All games are on ESPN+ btw. There's a just getting going / working out the kinks vibe so far which is charming. There's a bunch of two-way players too, including #1 pick Kelsie Whitmore who's starting for the Firebells today.
I'm not a biblical scholar by any means, and I know this will be controversial for some, but I found an interesting Bible passage in which Jesus very clearly references sexual/gender minorities and carves out an exception for them in terms of spiritual law.
I was having an argument with a homophobe about whether Hey-Zeus ever explicitly condemned homosexuality in the gospels (spoiler alert, he didn't) and they pointed me to a passage that not only did *not* prove their point, but also has Jesus explicitly condemn divorce (for straight couples), and shout out "eunuchs" as exceptions to God's word.
The relevant piece is Matthew 19: 3-12
*3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
10 The disciples said to him, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.”
11 Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”*
So yeah, he starts off with that tired "made them male and female" schtick, but ends up shouting out the people who are clear exceptions to that. Typically a eunuch is understood to be an amab person who's been castrated, but I think it's evident that he meant more than that here. To me, "eunuchs who were born that way" clearly means intersex people. (And there's a strong argument that many if not most trans people - at least hormonally - are intersex.) And aren't we all "made eunuchs by others" by going on hrt? To me this passage says "cishet couples should not get divorced, but if you're part of a sexual minority then don't worry about it" lmao.
And don't quote any other part of the big dumb book to me, I'm talking about things Jesus explicitly says in the gospels, which should be all that Christians care about (but of course they don't if all they're looking for is an excuse to condemn, hate, and dominate others).