Contents:
- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
- WHAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL ACTUALLY DECI: DO GAY PEOPLE EXIST?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAY PEOPLE ARE TOLD THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
The Fellowship of Christian Athlet is a relig anizatn that seeks to spread an anti-LGBTQ msage to llege athlet and requir a strict “sexual pury” policy for s employe that bars any “homosexual acts. ” Pl Anrson Youth Home, a “Christian rintial home for trouble youth, ” teach boys that homosexualy is wrong and that same-sex marriage is “rage agast J Christ and His valu. When prsed about the pany’s anti-gay posns, he rpond “Well, guilty as charged.
There are 140, 000 people — black, whe; gay, straight; Christian, non-Christian — who reprent Chick-fil-A. Many avoid mentng that LGBT people were the victims — at least until a few days later, when they began remdg everybody what they tly thk about gay people. “Y, we n oppose gay marriage and still oppose the slghter of gays, ” Steve Pwels sisted at BarbWire.
“Y, Christians do believe homosexual actns are sful. “It is te that many Christians hold to the Bible’s teachg on the sfulns of homosexualy and that upsets some gays, ” wrote Rick McDaniel at the ChristianPost.
WHAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL ACTUALLY DECI: DO GAY PEOPLE EXIST?
Conservative Christians have long argued that their nmnatns of homosexualy are uched love, plete wh the tchy slogan, “love the sner, hate the s. ” But that msage — that homosexualy is a s — is harmful and of self. Lsons From Ex-Gay Therapy.
The negative nsequenc of discrimatn, bullyg, and fay rejectn are well documented, but fewer studi have actually looked at the direct effect of relig nmnatns of homosexualy. Studi on ex-gay therapy, also known as sexual orientatn change efforts (SOCE), shed some light on what happens when gay people directly teract wh relig beliefs that reject their inti. Survivors of ex-gay therapy have nfirmed the nsequenc wh their own stori.
In an rmal survey nducted by the anizatn Beyond Ex-Gay 2013, 92 percent of people who had unrgone SOCE reported experiencg harm as a rult. Bis the fact that the treatments didn’t actually work to change their orientatn, the rponnts said that tryg to “pray away the gay” ed them to experience shame, prsn, fear, anger, lowered self-teem, feelgs of failure, and even suicidal thkg.