By GWOG | gaywithoutgod.com
A few of us are gay. Fewer still are atheists. And only a fraction of us are gay atheists. Those of us who are both gay and atheists have grown up against the grain of society, a society that is very much heterosexual and theistic. Only a segment of us were raised in families that had already challenged the status quo of sexuality and religiosity before we arrived. The rest of us had to figure it out on our own.
This, as it turns out, was a blessing in disguise.
Through the process of having to twice challenge social norms as we came of age, our minds became primed for freethinking. We can consider it a gift of chance that through necessity we were pushed to question our realities (skepticism), pushed to analyze and test the evidence of what is real and what is not (scientific method), pushed to think logically in contemplating the norms of society (critical thinking).
And through that process of questioning, we found that society was generally wrong. Homosexuality is not immoral, and God does not exist. We arrived at both these conclusions for the same reason: there is no evidence for the contrary. We were shocked to find that society had been ignorantly humming along before our arrival on baseless assumptions, acting on those assumptions, and damaging itself in the process. Until now, no one had made enough noise to challenge those assumptions. No one had formally placed the burden of proof on society in its theistic claims and moral subscriptions.
Things are changing. We have arrived. We are Gay without God. We will be out and proud on both fronts in challenging the status quo.
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