When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians.
Contents:
- MATTHEW LH
- CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
- THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
- A RPONSE TO ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- WALSH: NO, GOD DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE GAY
MATTHEW LH
Matt Moore, a Christian Post blogger whose blog "My Story: Homosexualy, Dnkenns, Grace and Remptn" went viral last year, was "outed" for jog Grdr, a popular gay social workg app, recently. Gawker first ran an article on Moore on Tuday morng that soon led to stori on Huffgton Post and other media s, all of them shg to pot out how the man who left the active homosexual liftyle after g to fah J Christ had fallen to temptatn. The s qut * gay god matt *
Matt Moore, a Christian Post blogger whose blog "My Story: Homosexualy, Dnkenns, Grace and Remptn" went viral last year, was "outed" for jog Grdr, a popular gay social workg app, recently. Gawker first ran an article on Moore on Tuday morng that soon led to stori on Huffgton Post and other media s, all of them shg to pot out how the man who left the active homosexual liftyle after g to fah J Christ had fallen to temptatn.
This is somethg that mt Why did you take your origal ttimony, "My Story: Homosexualy, Dnkenns, Grace and Remptn" on CP down? When I saw the Huffgton Post lked directly to that blog, I leted How has the gay muny treated you sce Gawker and Huffgton Post "outed" you? They plead wh me to embrace my homosexual feelgs as a gift om God, and assure me that God will love me no ls if I live my life as a gay man and get a gay relatnship.
There have also been some atheists and gay persons who have emailed me apologizg on behalf of the liberal media for prtg such harsh material about me.
CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
Matthew Lh (gaygod)'s profile on Myspace, the place where people e to nnect, disver, and share. * gay god matt *
He did not know that I was open wh the fact that I still experience same-sex attractn on a daily basis, somethg that I've been extremely public The person who outed you, Znia Jon, wr on a blog post: "So-lled 'ex-gays' publicly promote the notn that LGBT people are sng agast a god who will torture them eternally if they fail to supprs and ny their te nature. We are saved not bee of anythg we have or haven't done, but bee of what Christ has done for Why do you go back to your Christian fah when you are unr so much prsure om the gay muny to embrace your homosexualy? Let's say that two weeks, I have left the fah and have embraced homosexualy aga.
He is more valuable, fortg and satisfyg than homosexual behavr, and I n say that om experience. The world will tell you to embrace your homosexual sir bee 'll make you happy this life. Print Tmp himself said was a “great honor” to be lled the most pro-gay print ever, and the First Lady publicly endorsed gay and lbian equaly.
In the years prr, an creasgly nfint gay liberatn movement had succsfully passed nondiscrimatn ordanc across the untry. While ncerns about the ordance’s lack of relig liberty protectns buoyed her effort, Bryant’s rhetoric about the threat gay people ostensibly posed to children was the mpaign’s lastg legacy. While praisg her urage and ldg her for “emphasizg that God lov the homosexual, ” Graham also suggted that he would not have said “some thgs she and her associat said … the same way.
THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * gay god matt *
Graham add that, while he saw his votn as foced on preachg the gospel, he “was also fearful that her mpaign might galvanize and brg out to the open homosexualy throughout the untry, so that homosexuals would end up a stronger posn. As Ta Fetner argu How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, Bryant and Briggs advertently revigorated what had been an creasgly dormant movement, givg a more ant and opposnal edge than had prevly.
A RPONSE TO ‘GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN’
Matthew V’ book God and the Gay Christian, and the movement reprents, is a direct nontatn to the church’s tradnal unrstandg of marriage. If the book falls to the hands of unrmed Christians, who are liable to succumb to cultural prsur and adopt the sexual standards of a secular… * gay god matt *
Activists personalized the issue for the first time: Openly gay polician Harvey Milk enuraged people to e out of the closet to their iends and neighbors, rhapg public opn about the challeng they faced. Wrten by psychologist Pl Cameron, they emphasized, among other thgs, that gay men gt fel matter their sexual practic.
The televisn mpaign tentnally prented the most flamboyant, non-bourgeois pictns of gay pri paras—ostensibly to show the “realy” of the LGBT movement, but effect to generate fear. Some 16 years later, California voters reenacted a nearly intil pattern when—after a tumultuo fight—they simultaneoly prohibed gay marriage wh Proposn 8 and ma Barack Obama print. Amendment 2’s drafters sisted that s text required no moral judgment about homosexualy.
Evans, givg gay rights supporters their first victory at the Supreme Court and settg the trajectory for all that would follow.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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In 2012, for stance, the Fay Rearch Council (FRC) gave an award to pastor Ron Bay for his efforts on Amendment 1 North Carola, which prohibed the state om regnizg gay marriag. When vio was disvered showg Bay had pared gay people to maggots, the FRC argued that he was given the award not for his “misstatements” but for “his example of standg for the tth and for his 42 years of mistry.
It also fets that the gay liberatn movement was a direct rponse to the systemic and pervasive excln of lbian and gay dividuals om the stctur of our public life—cludg om Ameri self. In the 1940s and ’50s, gays and lbians who worked ernment were not given secury clearanc.
Ironilly, though, the pathologizatn of homosexualy ed to jtify the mid-century rtrictns cleared the ground for both the assertn of “gay pri” on the one si and the failgs of the “ex-gay spokmen” on the other.
WALSH: NO, GOD DO NOT MAKE PEOPLE GAY
As historian Heather Whe has argued, pathologizg homosexualy ma central to a person’s character and inty. But also meant that gay people were forced to choose between the shame of beg irremediably disorred and the pri of embracg their inty. The now-outdated slogan “born this way” verts the theraptic pathologizatn of homosexualy, even while sanctng wh the thory of nature.
Foc on the Fay and other anizatns employed “ex-gay” spokpeople to unteract the emergg narrative that homosexualy was both nate and fixed. But they failed to regnize that ex-gay dividuals who ma “liberatn om homosexualy” their votn ntued to be fed by . Henry fers om this that “legislatn should benef fay stctur, not penalize them” and that legislatn should “prerve the civil rights of all, cludg homosexuals, but not approve and advance immoral liftyl” (emphasis add).
As Tanya Erzen not Straight to J, her reful pictn of an ex-gay mistry, participants often distanced themselv om the polics of the ex-gay movement. The arguments for gay marriage are easy and appeal to wispread tuns: “Love is love” is sipid but also disarmg.