What is Si-B Gay Christiany? This article explor the var issu wh Si-B Gay Christiany and Revoice Theology and how they are anthetil to the Gospel of J Christ.
Contents:
- WHAT IS WRONG WH GAY CHRISTIANY? WHAT IS SI A AND SI B ANYWAY?
- THE JOY-ROBBG FALSE HOPE OF SI B GAY CHRISTIANY
- HOW CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS DEAL WH DIRE
- #3 - A-B-Y-X | 4 SIS ON SSA/GAY SEXUALY
- SI GUYS: THKG BEYOND GAY MALE "TOPS" AND "BOTTOMS"
WHAT IS WRONG WH GAY CHRISTIANY? WHAT IS SI A AND SI B ANYWAY?
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While grateful for the experience of beg gay, Hartley se his gay inty as somethg that go beyond jt sex — “I never say that I’m grateful for same-sex sexual sire, ” he said — also clus athetics, culture and worldview. As Si B disurse was fdg s way to onle foms, the flagship Christian ex-gay anizatn Exod Internatnal closed s doors 2013 after s of g nversn therapy on LGBTQ dividuals.
Many LGBTQ Christians who had been harmed by the ex-gay approach — but still held to tradnal church teachgs on marriage — turned to Si B for a more acceptg muny.
Bridget Eileen Rivera, a celibate gay Christian and thor of “Heavy Burns: Seven Ways LGTBQ Christians Experience Harm the Church, ” don’t e the Si B label.
THE JOY-ROBBG FALSE HOPE OF SI B GAY CHRISTIANY
Mudblood Catholic (Gabriel Blanchard) wrote a really tertg seven-part (as well as an excurs and a postscript) seri of blogs a while back on beg “Gay and Catholic.” I enurage you to check out each post, startg wh the first one that I’ve lked to.[1] In “Part I: Gaystatn 2,” Gabriel, a Si-B gay Catholic,… * side a side b gay *
“When a gay person lands the more nservative, tradnal mp, ’s helpful to distguish them om those who are really theologilly a different place, ” he said. On the flip si, some progrsive crics, who are fewer number, said Hill and Hartley, see Si B as another eratn of the ex-gay movement or a form of rpectabily polics where LGBTQ dividuals reprs their sexualy to w approval om the broar church. “The ia that Si B is jt the ex-gay movement wh a different veneer ignor or mimiz the fact that Si B people are fleeg ex-gay movements and ex-gay church, ” said Hartley.
Th agreed and add that the motivatns behd Si B and the ex-gay movement are entirely different; one is tryg to make gay people straight, and the other is tryg to expand how the church views love and kship.
Colls said many Si B are cidg whether they have more mon wh the LGBTQ inty found Si A or the tradnal sexual ethic found ex-gay approach.
HOW CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIANS DEAL WH DIRE
“Si B me out of dissatisfactn wh the simple and easy answers of the ex-gay movement, ” said Hartley, “and so, embracg plexy or allowg plexy is ntrast to that sistence on uniformy.
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The church nmned such feelgs as bad choic and nmned the people (like me) who experienced the feelgs as abomatns, falsely llg homosexual sir a willful choice.
SI GUYS: THKG BEYOND GAY MALE "TOPS" AND "BOTTOMS"
They are supported by the Gay Christian Network, or Si A (which sanctns same-sex marriage and believ that homosexualy is jt one of many forms of diverse sexualy that the church should wele), and the Spirual Friendship ter muny, or Si B (which believ that homosexualy is not a morally culpable issue, although is a nsequence of the brokenns om the Fall; Si B teach agast homosexual sexual practice, but only for the sake of Christian tradn).