Why I Carry This Sign 𖤐

 Why I Carry This Sign

I’m a fag — and I have every right to say so. Not just the word, but the whole phrase: “God Hates Fags, So Fuck God.” It’s reclamation. It’s resistance. It’s mine.

The phrase “God hates fags” was used to terrorize queer people. I’m turning it back on the institutions that empowered it. I’m taking it out of their mouths and putting it in my hands — not to harm, but to confront. This is not hate speech. This is protest speech. And I speak it from within a religious framework that explicitly affirms my right to offend.

According to The Satanic Bible, “blessed are the destroyers of false hope,” and “the freedom to offend is far more important than the freedom from offense.” As a Satanist, I have every religious right to critique the Christian God — especially the one who, according to scripture, calls people like me abominations. If that God exists, he hates me. If he doesn’t, then the damage was done in his name.

Either way, I won’t be silent about it.

This sign isn’t blasphemy for the sake of shock. It’s a direct challenge to centuries of Christian authority that taught the world to hate people like me. The First Amendment protects my right to say it — and my religion requires that I do.

If you're offended, ask yourself why. And if your answer sounds like scripture, you may be proving my point.

— Roy Wyatt Batty

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Illusion of Inclusion: LGBTQ+ Exclusion at the UU Congregation of the Shoals

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Shoals publicly presents itself as a welcoming, LGBTQ+ affirming space. It has participated in Pride events, hosted inclusive programming, and adopted UU principles that affirm the worth and dignity of all people, including queer individuals. However, there is a clear contradiction between public messaging and interpersonal behavior within the congregation: After a returning congregant shared about a gay Satanist friend who was disowned by his Christian family, the response was not affirming. It included: Being told the concern was “just an opinion.” Being interrupted and talked over while trying to explain the emotional and spiritual harm. Being told multiple times to “maybe find another church.” The prior agreement to allow speech on queer and Satanic identity (outside a Christian lens) was denied. The individual’s raised voice—a trauma response to repeated gaslighting—was treated as a threat, rather than grief in need of care. Though so...
Read more

✝️ God Hates Fags, Always and Forever ✝️

             ✝️  G od Hates Fags, Always and Forever ✝️                                                  † For centuries, Christian institutions have been key architects and enforcers of homophobia - not just spiritually, but socially, politically, and legally. The Bible contains a handful of passages often cited to condemn queer people. Most frequently, these include Leviticus 18:22 ("man shall not lie with man") and Romans 1:26-27. These verses and others have been used to justify centuries of abuse, stigma, and violence against queer people — especially by colonial and imperial powers. Christian missionaries and settlers brought anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs to cultures where gender and sexuality had been understood more fluidly, forcibly replacing them with rigid Western norms. By the time Christianity became entangled with p...
Read more

🖤 Satan Loves the LGBTQ+, Always and Forever 🖤

  🖤 Satan Loves the LGBTQ+, Always and Forever 🖤 ⛧ We are queer. We are trans. We are Satanists. Not in the cartoonish way you’ve been taught to fear — but in the real, living sense of rebellion, dignity, and resistance to arbitrary power. Atheistic Satanism, as practiced by many of us today, is not a religion of worship. It is a religion of values: autonomy, reason, compassion, and defiance against injustice. We don’t believe in a literal Satan. But we do believe in what “Satan” represents: the outsider, the questioner, the one cast out by God for daring to think freely. If the Christian story teaches us that queerness is sin, we answer: then bless the sinner. If their god casts us out, then we make our home in the wilderness — and we make it beautiful. Satan does not ask you to be straight. Satan does not ask you to repent. Satan does not threaten you with hell. Satan does not need you to be ashamed. We affirm the LGBTQ+ community not in spite of our Satanism, but because of it...
Read more