Parents want their children to be happy, healthy, and safe. If your child out to you as LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer), that may or may not be somethg you imaged or feel prepared for—but your acceptance really matters to their health and safety.
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10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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LOG IN WITH FACEBOOKHome›Polics and Activism›5 Reasons Why You Should Be An LGBT Ally›An LGBT+ ally is a heterosexual and cisgenr person who supports equal civil rights, genr equaly, LGBT+ social movements, and challeng homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia. Endg discrimatn enhanc the human spir and mak all our liv is no reason why a gay person should be nied the same rights and eedoms as their straight unterparts. Whether ’s same-sex marriage or the right to adopt a child, gay rights supporters believe that is time to stop whholdg basic eedoms om any group of Amerin cizens.
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If your child out to you as LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer), that may or may not be somethg you imaged or feel prepared for—but your acceptance really matters to their health and safety.
SHOULD GAY PEOPLE BE ACCEPTED SOCIETY?
One issue that we face here the Uned Stat is people beg disrpectful to the LGBTQ muny. People ll them “sners” or “disgtg.” Gays should not be discrimated agast. They are regular people that shoul * why should we accept lgbt *
Askg them about their experience and how you n help them feel supportedlisteng whout terptg or argugtellg them you love them and exprs affectnlearng together about issu LGBTQ youth face by jog an LGBTQ fay support anizatn, such as PFLAG, Genr Spectm, Genr Odyssey, or Strong Fay Allianctandg up for your child when they are mistreated, even by other fay membershelpg your child fd an LGBTQ role mol for your child among iends and fay members or through PFLAG or other support groupstalkg to your relig lears about helpg your place of worship bee more supportive of LGBTQ people, or fd a more supportive place of worship at, Q Christian Fellowship, Khet, or Mlims for Progrsive Valuenuragg fay and iends to check wh your child and show supportchallengg homophobic mentsgettg to know your child’s LGBTQ iends and romantic partnersupport your child’s genr exprsn... Throwg the Bible and your beliefs the fac of those who support gays won't change the fact that they support them or the fact that someone is gay. Sce sexual orientatn is not a nsc choice, our society should not ignore but to accept, rpect homosexualy, and our law should not discrimate agast those people by takg away their eedom, benefs and rights to pursue happs a civil unn.
First, many relig and social nservativ believe that the bible prohibs homosexualy th gays and lbians alike are sful, hated by God and should be crimalized. Send, people whout any unrstandg about homosexualy simply thk that is chosen by those who practice , and those who practice are mentally ill. This pot has been siarly exprsed and many tim ronate as Gregory Kol the thor of the article “Homosexualy: Givg Your Pot of View” poted out “Christians have ma some mistak here focg on an ternal approach--quotg the Bible--rather than g an external approach--fdg some means other than Scripture to persua.
– Heredy and Homosexualy” that appeared the Febary 1999 issue of the Natnal Review, “homosexualy is, like basic sk lor, the rult of a physlogilly termative factor. If they n eely choose to which ever sexual orientatn they wish, don’t you thk they would of urse pick heterosexual which is the praised one rather than homosexual which is always the nmned, prohibed, abnormal, unnatural one? Homosexualy is abnormal and unnatural merely bee of the number of people who are homosexual is rather small parg to vast majory of people who are heterosexual.
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. * why should we accept lgbt *
Homosexual are not abnormal, they are jt different, jt like Asians, Csians, Ain Amerins and many other var rac that are different, different blogilly as the lor of their sks, different religly as the choosg of their fahs, different lguistilly as the languag they speak, different culturally as the food they eat and the cloths they wear. As a highly civilized society, we shall not make the same mistak aga to supprs, threaten, and prosecute the homosexual mory as when Hler orred to kill all the Jewish people, as when we nied the eedom of the enslaved, as when we nied the rights for women to vote.
Homosexualy is natural sce is not a disease or an metal disorr as 1973 the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn nfirmed the importance of the new, better signed rearch and removed homosexualy om the official manual that lists mental and emotnal disorrs. Unfortunately, this is not gog to happen bee we may never feel and experience the way they do bee acrdg to the Amerin Psychiatric Associatns s posn statement approved by their May 2000 assembly, heterosexual n never be nverted to homosexual or homosexual be ever nverted to heterosexual and any such attempt such as nversn therapy is scientifilly rrect.