How The So-Called “Traditional View” Forces Queer Christians Into Hiding

Jamie Arpin-Ricci
7 min readMar 31, 2020
(photo by Gabriel / art by Jamie Arpin-Ricci)

(Content Warning: The following article contains mention of suicide.)

While I still held the so-called “traditional view” on marriage and sexuality when I married my wife, my own deeply painful experiences as a bisexual man working in full-time Christian ministry tempered how I engaged the topic. Where others were focusing on the need to…

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Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Jamie Arpin-Ricci is a bisexual author & activist with more than 25 years experience living at the intersection of faith, sexuality, and justice.