Young Life Flourish Amid Gay Ban, Sexual Misnduct Claims

Contents:

• YOUNG LIFE FLOURISH ON LLEGE MP SPE PHBACK OVER GAY VOLUNTEER BAN AND SEXUAL MISNDUCT ACCATNS
• A GAY COUPLE TRIED TO SIGN UP FOR A CHRISTIAN CAMP’S RNN WEEKEND. THE ANTI-LGBTQ PHBACK THEY FACED WAS THE FAL STRAW, THEY SAID.
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• KANSAS STATE AND JORDY NELSON DROP ANTI-GAY GROUP YOUNG LIFE OM WILDTS FUNDRAISER THIS WEEKEND

YOUNG LIFE FLOURISH ON LLEGE MP SPE PHBACK OVER GAY VOLUNTEER BAN AND SEXUAL MISNDUCT ACCATNS

De Universy's stunt ernment voted unanimoly 2019 to certify Young Life as an on official stunt group, while Gonzaga Universy's Young Life chapter disband 2020 prott over the natnal policy banng gay learship. The uncil, Young Life lears said, would listen to the hundreds of stori pourg out on social media, stori of queer youth scribg the rejectn and heartbreak of learng they uldn’t be gay and also serve learship rol. But the anizatn go on to say that lears “pursug same-sex romantic relatnships is out of alignment wh the spir of the Sexual Conduct Policy” and lls homosexualy “an example of the distortn that rults om humany’s rejectn of God.

He also exprsed alarm at portns of the document that talk about possibly puttg transgenr mpers their own bs or Young Life rmg parents that their children may have gay bunkmat. A py of a prev policy reviewed by The Post, which do not clu a date, stated: “If an dividual was termated om service as a staff member or volunteer as a rult of ncerns by Young Life that the dividual engaged or may have engaged an act of child moltatn, child abe, sexual volvement wh a child, ct or overt homosexual activy/liftyle, there will be no rehire or restatement.

But that sense of belongg was shaken when the anizatn’s natnal office told Thomas, an email, that he uldn’t be a Young Life lear bee he was a gay man a relatnship. “I would love for Young Life to be clear about what they believe , ” said Liz Garcia, who said she was asked to rign om her posn at Young Life 2017 after g out as gay and cidg she uldn’t agree wh the sexual nduct policy.

A GAY COUPLE TRIED TO SIGN UP FOR A CHRISTIAN CAMP’S RNN WEEKEND. THE ANTI-LGBTQ PHBACK THEY FACED WAS THE FAL STRAW, THEY SAID.

In 2018, C was unable to register as a stunt anizatn at Rolls College Orlando, Florida, due to “ncerns that s valu uld prevent gay stunts om beg mp lears” vlatn of the school’s nondiscrimatn policy, acrdg to the school newspaper. They said they lost their jobs at the mistry, were told to jt “stop beg gay, ” were outed to -workers whout nsent, and were treated like a threat to children simply for beg queer.

Roughly half (48%) of members of Gen Z say that allowg gay and lbian upl to marry is a good thg for our society, pared to 27% of Baby Boomers, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center report published a rult, there’s been a growg trend towards ambiguy among some nservative church that want to attract young people, acrdg to Js Kotnour, a member of the learship team at Church Clary, a crowd-sourced database that sr ngregatns based on how clearly they munite their actively enforced polici on genr and church will prent themselv as clive, but will ultimately refe to orda, hire, or marry queer people, Kotnour said. At meetgs, the area director for the Brazos Valley regn would tell llege-aged lears that if a kid their re me out to them as gay or lbian, the children should be told that the feelgs stemmed om a “misplaced sire, ” Silva Silva cid to e out to that same area director 2017, she knew she would need to step down. But even then, he says, he was never fully accepted by the mistry as a gay, celibate said he wasn’t allowed to be open about his sexualy while volunteerg for the group.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

When he tried to give a ttimony at mp about how beg gay don’t separate people om God’s love, staff members not only stopped him om speakg, they also started treatg him as if he were a threat to children simply bee he was gay, he said he also heard a speaker at a Young Life learship nference say that didn’t matter if a queer person was or wasn’t sexually active ― and that simply havg same-sex attractns disqualified someone om beg a mistry months of wrtlg wh prsn and suicidal thoughts, Tt said he cid to leave Young Life of his own acrd.

She read stori om the woman who was let go at the mp as well as Joshua Tt, who tailed to The Post July his treatment by Young Life staff after they found out he was gay. De Universy's stunt ernment voted unanimoly 2019 to certify Young Life as an on official stunt group, while Gonzaga Universy's Young Life chapter disband 2020 prott over the natnal policy banng gay learship.

Thomas, now 32 and a social worker Taa, Washgton, last vised the mp on the Prcs Louisa let when he was 23 years old before he was kicked out for beg gay, he told BuzzFeed News. I have shared my experience regardg beg termated for beg gay, and then the great lengths they went to to ny and lie about their polici and actns when I started tellg stunts and parents and also said I would go to the media wh the story.

KANSAS STATE AND JORDY NELSON DROP ANTI-GAY GROUP YOUNG LIFE OM WILDTS FUNDRAISER THIS WEEKEND

In recent years, InterVarsy and C have both been criqued by former staff and volunteers who separated om the mistri after publicly intifyg as gay or lbian and pursug noncelibate relatnships, or affirmg such unns. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.