Growg Up Gay and Christian — Prton Sprkle

Contents:

• GROWG UP GAY AND CHRISTIAN
• ‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

GROWG UP GAY AND CHRISTIAN

Is Prtonplayz Gay? So om all knowledge, we n say that Prtonplayz is not gay; he is a straight man acrdg to his sexual orientatn. It is an unrstatement to say that the qutn of homosexualy stirs up ntroversy among Christians today.

” Bee homosexualy rais so many related qutns – self-inty, unndnal acceptance, church disciple – there is often ntroversy even wh the “non-affirmg” mps on the bt way to move forward. For example, Anne Plk’s review of Prton’s book foc almost exclively on one chapter of People to Be Loved, where Prton accepts the legimacy of g “gay” as a scriptor among fahful Christians who stggle wh same-sex attractn. Plk, who once lled herself gay, worri that self-labelg this way harms a person at the level of inty.

‘THEY/THEM’ FILM REVIEW: SHARP SCRIPT GIV BE TO GAY-CONVERSN CAMP HORROR STORY

It’s that “homosexualy is not an issue to be solved; ’s about people who need to love and be loved” (20). The first half of this book is a journey wh Prton through the Scriptur, as he leads to “lay asi our assumptns and genuely seek to know what the Bible, not our tradn, says about homosexualy” (10). In some plac, I disagreed wh Prton’s biblil exegis, most notably his claim that homosexualy (at least as we unrstand today) is not view the acunt Sodom and Gomorrah.

Prton is right that there were multiple ss at work Sodom’s wickedns, as the Scriptur dite, but we shouldn’t overlook the terpretive support throughout Jewish and Church history for the ia that homosexual practice was one of those ss.

Plk’s review took issue wh Prton’s openns to Christians who intify themselv as ‘gay’ even while stgglg to live fahfully. “Some people e the term ‘gay’ a strong sense of pturg their re inty, while others e the term a soft sense to scribe their experienc as a same-sex attracted person, ” Prton wr. “The term ‘gay’ do not self mean that someone is engagg same-sex behavr or thks that would be right to do so” (134).