{"id":8473,"date":"2014-06-16T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2014-06-16T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:21:50","slug":"speaking-of-sexual-trauma-a-queer-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/06\/speaking-of-sexual-trauma-a-queer-calling.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Speaking of Sexual Trauma&#8221;: A Queer Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>blogs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking of sexual trauma as an LGBT person requires walking on eggshells. Our stories have political capital, whether we want them to or not. In my experience, the broader LGBT community expects survivors to defend the idea that sexual abuse <em>rarely, if ever,<\/em> is a determining factor in one\u2019s sexual orientation. On the other extreme, most of the conservative Christian community is convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that if an LGBT person was sexually abused at some point in life, surely that <em>must<\/em> be the cause of his or her sexual orientation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aqueercalling.com\/2014\/06\/16\/speaking-of-sexual-trauma\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blogs: Speaking of sexual trauma as an LGBT person requires walking on eggshells. Our stories have political capital, whether we want them to or not. In my experience, the broader LGBT community expects survivors to defend the idea that sexual abuse rarely, if ever, is a determining factor in one\u2019s sexual orientation. On the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[370,171,17,1264],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-catholic-whatnot","tag-a-queer-calling","tag-abuse-of-power-comes-as-no-surprise","tag-children-will-listen","tag-gay-catholic-whatnot"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Speaking of Sexual Trauma&quot;: A Queer Calling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"blogs: Speaking of sexual trauma as an LGBT person requires walking on eggshells. 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