The Queer Christian Taxonomy

Where do you land?

This quiz places you on a nine-cell descriptive grid mapping positions in queer Christian discourse. The grid has two axes: how your theological position understands queer identity (from exclusion to celebration), and how it understands the church's political and ecclesial role (from institutional accommodation to liberationist engagement).

There are 19 questions. Choose the answer that best reflects your actual position, not the one you aspire to, and not the position of your institution if it differs from your own.

Some questions may not have an answer you fully endorse, or you may feel torn between more than one option. That's alright; just choose whichever comes closest to your actual thinking.

This taxonomy is descriptive, not prescriptive. It maps where people are, not where they should be. Every cell describes a position that real people hold for reasons that make sense to them. The framework has a perspective, but the goal is accuracy, not judgment.

Your position on the grid

Here is where your answers place you on the two axes, before the category overlay.

Conformity ↑

Queerness
as Holy

Queerness
as Sin

↓ Liberation

Your location on the grid

Queerness as Holy ← · · · → Queerness as Sin

Respectability · Political Orientation · Liberation

Affirming

Mixed

Non-Affirming

Respectability

Tolerance

Liberation

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