That's kind of weird...

[neotoma]

As I was playing with the plot of the prompt that I've chosen for the lgbtfest, my brain went into the weird direction of religion... as in what are the Marvel-verse version of various common American religious denominations stands on mutants?

Frankly, I think it's going to follow whatever that religion's take on women and gays are, with the take on mutants being the far outlier.

Which means that the Unitarians, Metropolitan Community Church, and the United Church of Christ are probably the most welcoming churches for mutants, that Reform Judaism is the same for Jewish mutants, (and what for Muslims? I'm lost there, really). The Episcopalians are splitting over the issue, and the Catholic Church has a stance of "it's all right to *be* a mutant, if you never do anything with your abilities and don't mind being a second-class member and possibly barred from religious orders".

And canonically we have the Stryker movement, which is some kind of disturbing fundmentalist evangelical Christianity that preaches hate at its core.

Comments

[ataniell93.livejournal.com]

I don't think Judaism in any form would be anti-mutant. Things are what G-d makes them and they should be what they are.

More conservative Jewish sects have more trouble with homosexual and gender variant behaviour in part because they see that as trying to be something that G-d did not intend you to be. They're not anti-woman, they just regard women as having a different role in the world. Women are not supposed to "submit" the way they are in Xianity or Islam; neither sex is supposed to sleep around and in many communities women have always worked outside the home, particularly when their husbands are Torah scholars. I don't think having super-powers would be regarded as unkosher, provided they were used to help people.

[winter]

I'm of two minds over the Catholic Church's take on mutants. They're very heavy on the "keep things as God made them" issue. Barred from religious orders is right, mind you - active priests in particular can't have any visible deformities.