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If you want to look at it in those specific religious or symbolic terms, perhaps yes.

A more general understanding of "queering" is subversion of established norms. The actual stated goal is to destabilize understanding, and then to re-incorporate the all the contraditions together so they are no longer contradictory.

There is another name for this: Hegelian dialectic. A guy named Marx wrote a manual on using it. Then another guy named Lenin used it to "turn everything upside down".