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Contents:
- LONELS AND THE CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIAN
- BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH
- BEG CHRISTIAN AND GAY
- THE E OF A SCENE: WHY GAY CHRISTIANS ARE AAID TO E OUT TO THEIR PASTORS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
LONELS AND THE CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIAN
Is there a bigger source of lonels-ducg trma the gay muny than relig trma? This is Craig's story. * gay christian loneliness *
I don't believe there's a one-size-fs-all liftyle for every gay/lbian Christian, but for myself personally, I feel that I may be lled to celibacy. For that reason, I felt pelled to share this post by the thor of the dissertatn “Lonels and the Celibate, Gay Christian.
” TL;DR: Though many gay/lbian/same-sex attracted Christians are enuraged to pursue lifelong celibacy by the Church, many of their church don't have the same support for the celibate liftyle as they do for married upl. In the words of one of the study's participants: “…we have got the theologil reasong down pat, terms of the fact that gay people shouldn’t be gettg married and havg sex. ” Asi om a lack of stutnal stctur of support, a general lack of social belongg was also monly reported, as celibate gay Christians felt held at a distance not only due to their sexualy but also due to their sglens/celibacy.
It got me thkg: what do you thk would look like for church to support their celibate gay/lbian members?
BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH
It seems like a lot of church will tell gay people, "We don't hate you, we're jt sayg that unls you rema celibate your entire life, you aren't wele here! What else uld be done by the church to make celibacy a more viable choice for gay and lbian Christians, rather than the onero punishment n feel like now? In our lifetime, the gay muny has ma more progrs on legal and social acceptance than any other mographic group history.
BEG CHRISTIAN AND GAY
As recently as my own adolcence, gay marriage was a distant aspiratn, somethg newspapers still put sre quot. Public support for gay marriage has climbed om 27 percent 1996 to 61 percent 2016.
Still, even as we celebrate the sle and speed of this change, the rat of prsn, lonels and substance abe the gay muny rema stuck the same place they’ve been for s. Gay people are now, pendg on the study, between 2 and 10 tim more likely than straight people to take their own liv.
THE E OF A SCENE: WHY GAY CHRISTIANS ARE AAID TO E OUT TO THEIR PASTORS
In a survey of gay men who recently arrived New York Cy, three-quarters suffered om anxiety or prsn, abed dgs or alhol or were havg risky sex—or some batn of the three.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
Dpe all the talk of our “chosen fai, ” gay men have fewer close iends than straight people or gay women.
“Marriage equaly and the chang legal stat were an improvement for some gay men, ” says Christopher Stults, a rearcher at New York Universy who studi the differenc mental health between gay and straight men.
GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
In the Netherlands, where gay marriage has been legal sce 2001, gay men rema three tim more likely to suffer om a mood disorr than straight men, and 10 tim more likely to engage “suicidal self-harm.