I guess we need a better word than coming out. I know fist hand about the stigma of being furry. Its specially hard if one is an Evangelical Christian. For some in more pietistic circles fury = LGBT = on step below Satanism. It why I a bit hard on some in the furry media. It one thing to say there is LGBT element in the fandom but one cannot say furry (in its entirety) = LGBT.
I admit I dealt with this being on bot sides at first I wanted to be a furry in 2004 but my last vestige of my fundamentalist piety was afraid what the church will think if I became a fury. It was when I left Baptist church for Reform theology and Anglicanism I realize there no scriptural basis that says I cannot be a furry as long I do avoid immoral side to it.
Still the stigma, when unwittingly promoted by other furs is unnecessary hard on Evangelical Christian furs.
How did we get to this rabbit trail.
I guess we need a better word than coming out. I know fist hand about the stigma of being furry. Its specially hard if one is an Evangelical Christian. For some in more pietistic circles fury = LGBT = on step below Satanism. It why I a bit hard on some in the furry media. It one thing to say there is LGBT element in the fandom but one cannot say furry (in its entirety) = LGBT.
I admit I dealt with this being on bot sides at first I wanted to be a furry in 2004 but my last vestige of my fundamentalist piety was afraid what the church will think if I became a fury. It was when I left Baptist church for Reform theology and Anglicanism I realize there no scriptural basis that says I cannot be a furry as long I do avoid immoral side to it.
Still the stigma, when unwittingly promoted by other furs is unnecessary hard on Evangelical Christian furs.