I Thought Gay Celibacy Was My Only Optn - I Was Wrong | Ve & Fig Co.

Contents:

• 'SO MANY OF THE CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS ARE CEL'
• HOW IS GAY CELIBACY DIFFERENT OM STRAIGHT CELIBACY?
• MY JOURNEY AS A CELIBATE GAY CATHOLIC
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS
• HOW CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS DEAL WH DIRE

'SO MANY OF THE CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS ARE CEL'

Celibate gay Christians are an emergg group who are openly and unapologetilly queer and also follow their church’ teachgs to absta om LGBTQ2 sex. ” The terms origated nservative Christian circl the late 1990s on a webse lled Bridg Across the Divi, a discsn fom created to brg together Christians who “disagree about moral issu surroundg homosexualy, bisexualy and genr variance. Some church and Christian anizatns that once promoted nversn therapy (to “turn” people om gay to straight) have now shifted away om , cludg Exod Internatnal, an anizatn of “ex-gays” (Christians who claim to no longer be gay, lbian or bisexual) that disband 2013.

HOW IS GAY CELIBACY DIFFERENT OM STRAIGHT CELIBACY?

There’s a Facebook group for Si B Christians and a webse lled Spirual Friendship, which is n by gay celibate Christian wrers Wley Hill and Ron Belg.

MY JOURNEY AS A CELIBATE GAY CATHOLIC

“I unrstand why they want to make the distctn that they do, between inty and practice, or between orientatn and sire, ” says Tonstad of celibate gay Christians. But he had to figure out how to square his inty wh his membership the Roman Catholic Church, which still holds that homosexual acts are wrong. He eventually nclud that he tsted the church’s thory on the issue — beg gay was okay but actg on sir was not.

Th still n’t expla exactly what ma her tst the church’s teachgs on homosexualy but thks the charist, the sacrament which the bread and we is transformed to the body and blood of Christ, had a lot to do wh . “I wanted to believe that the Bible didn’t have what I read as the prohibn agast gay sex, but I uldn’t good fah actually say that’s what said, ” he says. At age 19, he me out as gay while attendg Try Wtern Universy (TWU), a private Christian school Brish Columbia that, until recently, mandated s stunts sign a pledge to not have gay sex.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

“The nversatn had progrsed far enough [on mp] that no one thought that havg homosexual sir or havg the sire to physilly alter your genr inty was sful, but actg on that sire was, ” he says.

THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS

“So I knew celibate gay Christians who were given rol as rince advisers, stunt learship rol, whereas male stunts who had boyiends were explicly told that they wouldn’t be given those posns. “I wanted to believe that the Bible didn’t have what I read as the prohibn agast gay sex, but I uldn’t good fah actually say that’s what said.

HOW CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS DEAL WH DIRE

Some nservative fah muni disapprove of Si B pri and would prefer the label “same-sex attracted” over “gay.

Facg all this cricism, Jason says openly embracg his inty as a gay man has helped him unrstand others’ experienc of opprsn.