Why the Universal Rainbow Faith Is Needed Now
Throughout history, LGBTQIA+ identities have often been marginalized, misrepresented, or erased—especially by organized religion. Despite the sacred nature of our identities, few faith traditions have embraced the full divine truth that LGBTQIA+ people are holy, whole, and spiritually significant. This has left generations of queer and transgender people without a spiritual home where they are both celebrated and protected under the law.
​
Why Has There Not Been a Church Like This Before?
Several historical and cultural factors help explain why Universal Rainbow Faith (URF) is the first of its kind:
1. Religious Exclusion: Most major world religions have treated LGBTQIA+ people as outsiders, sinners, or unworthy of spiritual leadership. As a result, many queer people were forced to choose between their faith and their identity.
2. Focus on Civil Rights: The LGBTQIA+ movement has historically centered on legal equality—fighting for marriage, healthcare, and civil protections. Spirituality was often sidelined in these efforts.
3. Identity vs. Religion: Society has treated LGBTQIA+ identity as separate from religion. But the reality is that gender, love, and self-expression can be—and always have been—sacred.
4. Lost Traditions: Ancient queer spiritual roles—such as Two-Spirit people, hijras, androgynous priests, and gender-bending shamans—were suppressed or erased through colonization and religious persecution. URF seeks to reclaim and honor these sacred lineages.
5. Lack of Legal Recognition: While some LGBTQIA+-inclusive groups exist, few have taken the legal steps to be recognized as a religious organization that centers LGBTQIA+ identity as sacred doctrine.
​
Why Universal Rainbow Faith Is Important and Timely
In 2025, the world is witnessing an intensifying culture war around LGBTQIA+ rights. Transgender and nonbinary individuals are under attack through legislation, education bans, and religious-based discrimination. URF offers a solution: a legal and spiritual shield through recognized faith.
By founding a religion where gender identity, love, and self-expression are sacred, URF empowers our community with legal rights that surpass civil protections. Religious freedom laws are among the strongest legal tools in the United States.
Universal Rainbow Faith reclaims spirituality for queer and trans people. It offers sacred teachings, affirming community, and powerful tools of protection that traditional religious systems have denied us.
​
Does This Replace LGBTQIA+ Identity?
Absolutely not. Becoming a religion does not remove LGBTQIA+ status as a cultural, political, or social identity. Instead, it creates an additional framework of protection. Just like Jewish or Indigenous people can be both a people and a faith, LGBTQIA+ individuals can hold religious and social identities simultaneously.
Why Now?
🔹 Religious freedom laws offer powerful protections when civil rights fall short.
🔹 People are searching for spiritual community that fully affirms their identity.
🔹 The time is right for a global movement built on truth, healing, and justice.
🔹 URF meets a sacred need that has gone unmet for too long.
​
The Bottom Line
Universal Rainbow Faith isn’t just a church—it’s a sacred movement. It honors ancient truths, offers present-day healing, and secures future protection. The creation of URF is not only revolutionary—it’s overdue.