Daily Inspiration Quote by Troy Perry

A psalm gets turned into a protest sign with one surgical edit. By borrowing the cadence of "The Lord is my shepherd" (Psalm 23’s most soothed, most quoted line) and welding it to "and he knows I’m gay", Troy Perry collapses the distance between church comfort and church exclusion. The intent is not to shock for sport; it’s to force a theological collision: if God is intimate enough to guide, protect, and "know" the believer, then God is also intimate enough to know the believer’s sexuality without flinching.

The subtext is a rebuke aimed less at God than at gatekeepers. Perry implies: your doctrine of ignorance is a human invention. The line quietly flips the usual burden of confession. Instead of the gay believer pleading for acceptance, the church is the one exposed as out of step with the God it claims to represent. "He knows" doubles as reassurance and indictment: reassurance to LGBTQ Christians who have been trained to split themselves in two; indictment of institutions that treat queerness as scandal while marketing divine omniscience.

Context makes the sentence even sharper. Perry, a pioneering LGBTQ cleric and founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, spoke into an era when "gay" was widely framed as pathology or sin and when churches often led that framing. The quote uses familiar scripture as a Trojan horse, smuggling a marginalized truth into the most orthodox-sounding syntax. It works because it refuses the usual tragic posture. It’s plainspoken, almost teasing, and it dares the listener to say out loud that God’s love has an exception clause.