Holy Queer Answers
Does God Hate Gay People?
No. God does not hate gay people. Holy Queer argues that many LGBTQ people were handed an image of God shaped more by fear, exclusion, and religious control than by the life and love of Jesus.
Holy Queer Answers
No. God does not hate gay people. Holy Queer argues that many LGBTQ people were handed an image of God shaped more by fear, exclusion, and religious control than by the life and love of Jesus.
From Holy Queer
Holy Queer insists that God's love is not selective in the way human institutions often are. The book pushes against the idea that God sees LGBTQ people as outsiders, mistakes, or threats to the church.
Instead, it asks what happens when LGBTQ people are understood as fully seen by God. Not tolerated. Not conditionally accepted. Seen.
For many queer people, the wound is not simply theological. It is spiritual, familial, and embodied. They were taught that the God who created them was also disgusted by them. Holy Queer confronts that wound directly and offers another possibility: that God was present all along, not as the voice of rejection, but as the source of liberation.
What Holy Queer Proclaims
Holy Queer proclaims that God does not hate what God has created.
God does not need LGBTQ people to become less honest in order to be loved.
God's love is not waiting on heterosexuality.
God does not discover your truth and then decide whether to love you.
God knew you first.
Critical Acclaim
"This powerful and insightful book exemplifies a deep Black prophetic Christian witness that will touch souls, change minds, and transform the lives of all of us..."
— Cornel West
"Holy Queer is beautiful, haunting, disruptive, prophetic, and healing... fashioned in the brave-as-hell style of bell hooks..."
— Gary Dorrien
Named one of Religion News Service's Top Religion & Spirituality Books of 2023.
A Black queer gospel by Rev. Karmen Michael Smith. For everyone who has ever wondered whether God could love them whole.