Oh, Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey
(Trust and Obey, John H. Sammis (1886))

Reflecting on her Pocono retreat with LDCF, Wasacz 

it [00:32:00] definitely did damage to my self-esteem when it came to stuff like that, because questioning, during when I was coming out -- there’s so much questioning that trans people have to do.  Just because -- there’s so many cultural, societal, historical things we have levied upon us, that seem, to your mind, perfectly legitimate reasons not to transition, even if doing so would make you happier.


Queer questioning & transgression of boundaries vs Christian fixation with assurance and propensity for discouraging questions which undermine fundamental doctrine. Agenda-driven incuriosity stunts not only the spiritual growth of individual believers but that of the entire church body. Additionally, and alarmingly, this spiritual incuriosity that is baked into the minds of adolescents can leach to develop intellectual incuriosity and affect the types of questions they seek to ask in the classroom (personal anecdote).
Curiosity inherent to queerness and to liberal arts pedagogy 
“College is so eye opening, and it’s such an [00:52:00] opportunity to ask so many of those questions.” - Phil James
Growing pains of Queer Curiosity when coming from Christian Background
 “Right.  Especially in your developmental stages.  Like I’ve been hearing that message since I can ever remember.  I remember the torture I would put myself through during that year, my last year in Jamaica, when I was going to church [00:34:00] knowing that I’m probably going to hell.  Sitting there, people are like, “Well, why aren’t you singing?”  I don’t know how to be right now.  (laughs) Because I’m sitting there believing in this being, but also knowing that I’m so different.” - SAP


“And when I was a child, I had to become careful about not putting a foot wrong.  Because I knew what would happen if I somehow showed my being, who I was.  And so I watched, and I calculated every single thing.” - Riley Temple
“When you punish a child who is different from others, they turn in on themselves, and they become mute.” -  Riley Temple about Moonlight
Assurance that their belief stands above all others
“I grew up in a very strict, Seventh-day Adventist household.  And for relativity’s sake, Seventh-day Adventists think of Catholics as heathens.  That’s how conservative the SDA Church is.” - SAP
Incuriosity about the lived experiences of others
“To just think of my own community accepting what they were, you know, the deviant behavior that they were blindly assigning or blanketing across the entire community” - SAP
1974 The Lafayette, Letter to the Editor, "A Reply to Gays"
1974 The Lafayette, Letter to the Editor, "Right or Wrong”
Phil James investigates another way for Christian faith to operate: MCC LV
Quotes
I had spent all of my life [00:14:00] looking for a closet to hide in. (laughter)  I was always gay, always a homosexual, even before I knew about sex.  I exceeded gender norms, and I suffered greatly because of it.  You know, bullying, you know, adults who would say, “Don’t do that.  You can’t do that” - RT