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.
Contents:
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- KIRSTEN POWERS: CHRISTIANY'S NEW LOOK ON GAYS
- ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
While ncerns about the ordance’s lack of relig liberty protectns buoyed her effort, Bryant’s rhetoric about the threat gay people ostensibly posed to children was the mpaign’s lastg legacy.
KIRSTEN POWERS: CHRISTIANY'S NEW LOOK ON GAYS
While praisg her urage and ldg her for “emphasizg that God lov the homosexual, ” Graham also suggted that he would not have said “some thgs she and her associat said … the same way. Graham add that, while he saw his votn as foced on preachg the gospel, he “was also fearful that her mpaign might galvanize and brg out to the open homosexualy throughout the untry, so that homosexuals would end up a stronger posn.
As Ta Fetner argu How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, Bryant and Briggs advertently revigorated what had been an creasgly dormant movement, givg a more ant and opposnal edge than had prevly. Activists personalized the issue for the first time: Openly gay polician Harvey Milk enuraged people to e out of the closet to their iends and neighbors, rhapg public opn about the challeng they faced.
ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
The televisn mpaign tentnally prented the most flamboyant, non-bourgeois pictns of gay pri paras—ostensibly to show the “realy” of the LGBT movement, but effect to generate fear.
Some 16 years later, California voters reenacted a nearly intil pattern when—after a tumultuo fight—they simultaneoly prohibed gay marriage wh Proposn 8 and ma Barack Obama print. In 2012, for stance, the Fay Rearch Council (FRC) gave an award to pastor Ron Bay for his efforts on Amendment 1 North Carola, which prohibed the state om regnizg gay marriag.