Daily Inspiration Quote by Troy Perry

A good slogan knows when to pick a fight and when to flip the table. Troy Perry’s line does both, taking a familiar weapon in American religious culture - “God hates…” rhetoric - and turning it back on itself with one clean moral judo move. The point isn’t to prove LGBTQ people are lovable in spite of anything. It’s to expose how the hatred itself smuggles in a grotesque theology: a God who manufactures people for the purpose of despising them.

The intent is pastoral and political at once. Perry, a clergyman who helped found the Metropolitan Community Church in 1968 amid raids, stigma, and criminalization, is speaking to audiences trained to treat condemnation as “faithfulness.” He challenges them on internal logic rather than liberal sentiment. If God is creator, then queerness isn’t a glitch in the system; it’s part of what exists under divine authorship. To insist that God created gays and lesbians only to hate them is to admit, out loud, that the real idol is cruelty dressed up as doctrine.

Subtextually, the quote refuses the usual debate terrain where LGBTQ people are forced to plead for tolerance. It relocates the burden: the accuser must justify why their God looks like a petty human bigot with cosmic power. Perry makes hatred the theological scandal, not sexuality. It works because it’s a moral clarifier: either your God is love and your hate is disobedience, or your God is hate and your worship is complicity.