Contents:
- WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
- WELLS FARGO'S GAY UPLE AD SPARKS EVANGELIST PROTT
- BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
The Pew Rearch Center shared last year that the majory of people who approved of homosexual liftyl didn’t nsir relign important their daily liv. And holdg to God’s revealed tth His Word ncerng homosexualy is even more dangero, ” Becket Cook wrote his book, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn. “The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said.
For many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people, however, Graham was a csar agast them, one whose efforts shaped the relig right to an anti-LGBTQ polil 1950, Graham began the weekly "Hour of Decisn" rad program broadst on more than 700 statns around the world. "Graham himself had few specific words on LGBTQ people, at least when pared to the rt of his expansive non, but his disapproval of homosexualy was unequivol.
” This was after Graham had claimed homosexualy to be a “sister form of perversn” that was ntributg to the y of civilizatn, acrdg to the book “Mart Luther Kg Jr., Homosexualy, and the Early Gay Rights Movement” by Michael G.
WELLS FARGO'S GAY UPLE AD SPARKS EVANGELIST PROTT
Now spearhead by his son Frankl Graham, has provid a platform for vilent homophobia and support for anti-LGBTQ the anizatn's webse, Frankl Graham has claimed Satan is behd LGBTQ rights and activism, has said there is “no place for promise” on same-sex marriage and has praised Rsian lears who he said have "stood steadfastly agast the risg homosexual agenda their untry.
"Garrard Conley, the thor of “Boy Erased, ” a memoir which he reunts his experienc nversn therapy Arkansas, said Graham’s rhetoric was equently employed the lurgy he enuntered and the mp where he was told he uld be “cured” of homosexualy. From Genis on, the Bible prais the marriage of a man and a woman, but speaks only negatively of homosexual behavr whenever is mentned.
The New Ttament agre, listg “homosexual offenrs” among a list of people who “will not her the kgdom of God” unls they are cleansed through Christ (1 Corthians 6:9-11).
BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT
However, is important to note that the Bible speaks only of homosexual behavr (which would clu lt—choosg to fantasize about behavr), not unchosen feelgs. Lookg back on this enunter, I n see that had all the trappgs of what beme known as the ex-gay movement, of which I was once an eager proponent. Alan Medger, the first executive director of Exod Internatnal, scribed as “a change self-perceptn which the dividual no longer intifi him- or herself as homosexual.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Recent bat among nservative Anglins and Prbyterians over whether someone n claim a “gay inty” are only the latt round of siar disput that have echoed church rridors for years. One effect of this approach was that mandated that non-straight believers hi behd a mask, pretendg to be anythg but gay. Before there was an ex-gay paradigm of cure, there was an olr orthodoxy that clud a Christian paradigm of rg for believers who aren’t straight.
In the bgraphy Wound Prophet, Michael Ford documents how Nouwen discsed his experience as a celibate gay man wh his close circle of iends. As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct. For Stott, a homosexual orientatn was part of the believer’s inty—a fallen part, but one that the gospel don’t erase so much as humbl.
In the Uned Stat, as the 1969 Stonewall rts New York announced the birth of the gay rights movement, orthodox Prottants were already askg what posive visn Scripture giv for people who are gay. The 1970 psdonymo InterVarsy Prs book The Returns of Love: Letters of a Christian Homosexual mapped out a path of re and was promoted by Stott.