(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet.
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- 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
Some former Young Life members are criqug the mistry amid claims of sexual misnduct and anti-gay polici. * is young life anti 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. 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.
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.
(Photo source: ) For a long time I've wanted to highlight the fact that Young Life is strictly anti-gay. It is YL's posn that beg gay is a s and direct opposn to God's will and word. It's not an unmon belief for Christians who believe the Bible is the leral word of God.… * is young life anti gay *
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.
18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
A small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement * is young life anti gay *
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. 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.
KANSAS STATE AND JORDY NELSON DROP ANTI-GAY GROUP YOUNG LIFE OM WILDTS FUNDRAISER THIS WEEKEND
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. 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.