Just deleted my comment asking the same question… My advice is, find people who are more liberal. Depending on where in the world you live, this includes Christians. Where I live, the regular people who call themselves catholic, are often very liberal towards people with different opinions. Not all of them. But I have few issues spending time with most of them.

And once you encounter backlash and shaming, you’ve met the toxic part of the community. You want to think twice if you even want to appease to them. Or let that group of people dictate your life. I’d say it’s alright to cut ties with them and go separate ways. It’ll make your life healthier in the long run. And the world a better place.

Of course this doesn’t come without consequence… I mean it kind of does for me. But if you live somewhere with a lot more small-minded people, and they stick together and like mobbing and shunning people, you won’t be able to live in freedom, and they’ll try their best to make everyone submit to them.

My take on it is: Don’t let them. And I believe that’d be the Christian thing to do. It’s kind of exactly what the New Testament is about. There are a lot of stories in it about not submitting to idiots and bigots and instead do the right thing. And it really stresses that point when Jesus gets killed in the end, because he offended too many powerful people. So yeah. None of us is the messiah, so don’t get murdered… But I think it tells us if we’re proper Christians, we shouldn’t just gobble it down if someone serves us shit. (Pardon my French.) But even if you call yourself someone who walks in Jesus’ footsteps, I’d argue you need to take offense in exactly that kind of behaviour.