A small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement
Contents:
- FOC ON THE FAY'S LGBTQ DCENDANTS: EXECUTIVE'S GAY DGHTER SPEAKS OUT
- WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- FOC ON THE FAY HEAD: “WE’VE PROBABLY LOST” ON GAY MARRIAGE
- 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
- HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN
FOC ON THE FAY'S LGBTQ DCENDANTS: EXECUTIVE'S GAY DGHTER SPEAKS OUT
Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a majory of Amerins support gay marriage. It was the third such survey this sprg, and if you add the number of Amerins who support civil unns, public support for same-sex relatnships has bee the domant posn. Anti-gay marriage activists, though, aren’t gog down quietly; Mnota, a bill […] * gay marriage focus on the family *
Logil nsistency mands that dividuals and groups who want to reterpret Scripture to sanctn ee sexual exprsn among homosexuals should extend the same ncsn to heterosexual sgl; and, fact, some have already taken this next step.
In his book When Homosexualy Hs Home, Joe Dallas says that many women are attracted to the sensivy, astute munitn skills, vulnerabily and easily exprsed emotns that often embody temperament monly found homosexual men. We believe that homosexual unns are nsistent wh God’s sign for human sexualy as set forth the openg pag of the Bible and the words of J Himself: “From the begng of creatn, God ma them male and female. While skirtg the p of murky over-generalizatns, I thk about the thirty-two LGBTQ young Mormons who took their liv jt sce November 2015; a signifint upsurge only a few months after the Church reeratn of unsupportive stanc on gay issu.
In his book ReFoc: Livg a Life that Reflects God's Heart, he scrib a ffee meetg wh a proment "homosexual advote, " as one of the "most betiful moments" his twenty-pl years of mistry; yet, he's immediately probed back at the Foc office by someone admonishg him on how embarrassg might be if word got out he was associatg wh a gay person. He offers the grace to accept their te inty – not as gay, lbian or bi-sexual – but as His sons and dghters, embracg their blogil realy as male or are also ncerned about homosexualy’s impact on fai, the church and our culture.
WHAT TO DO WHEN A GAY CHILD MARRI
Society and fai always do bt when dividuals follow God’s created tent for rourc this sectn will help you unrstand and articulate God’s sign for human sexualy and rpond to revisnist theologil arguments that have been created to jtify homosexual behavr. A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn by Beckett CookThe powerful, dramatic story of how a succsful Hollywood set signer whose inty was eply rooted his homosexualy me to be sudnly and utterly transformed by the power of the Bible and Homosexual Practice: Text and Hermentics by Robert A.
He challeng rears to nsir how to uphold God’s mand to love Him and our Out of Homosexualy: New Freedom for Men and Women by Bob Davi and Lori RentzelFd answers for what means to be a man or a woman, how your past relat to your prent, how you n form healthy relatnships, and how your healg may prepare you for heterosexual Into Manhood: Rumg the Journey by Alan P. By Sam AllberryThis easy-to-unrstand book offers scriptural tths about marriage, sexualy, and same-sex Into Light: The Gospel, the Homosexual, and the Church by Peter HubbardHubbard enurag the Church to humbly engage those who experience same-sex attractn, drawg them to God’s Kdns by Barry Corey“Disver the Power of a Fotten Christian Virtue”Lovg My (LGBT) Neighbor by Glenn Stanton“Beg Friends Grace and Tth”Msy Grace by Caleb Kaltenbach“How a Pastor Wh Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Whout Sacrificg Convictn”Out of a Far Country by Christopher YuanA Gay Son’s Journey to God. “Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Gog and How to Turn the Ti”Pursug Sexual Wholens by Andrew Comiskey“How J Heals the Homosexual”Rtorg Sexual Inty: Hope for Women Who Stggle Wh Same-Sex Attractn by Anne PlkPlk left a lbian liftyle after g to Christ.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Someone I Love Is Gay by Bob Davi and Ana Worthen (not currently available through Foc on the Fay)Learn to unrstand your emotns and how to rpond to a gay-intified spoe, child, relative, or iend wh the tth about homosexualy—whout beg judgmental. Schmidt“Compassn & Clary the Homosexualy Debate”The Tth Com Out: The Story of My Heart’s Transformatn by Nancy Heche (not currently available through Foc on the Fay)After losg her hband to AIDS and her son a r crash, Heche’s youngt dghter, Anne, beme volved a high-profile lbian relatnship.
Dir Conflict: Hope for Men Who Stggle Wh Sexual IntyDallas offers reassurance and practil advice to the Christian alg wh same-sex attractn—and he clus an orthodox terpretatn of Scripture that refut pro-gay Homosexualy Hs Home: What to do When a Loved One Says, “I’m Gay”Dallas explas how to blend passn and nvictn. The Complete Christian Gui to Unrstandg Homosexualy by Joe Dallas and Nancy Heche For fai, pastors, unselors, and those who stggle wh same-sex attractn, Dallas and Heche offer sights on homosexual marriage and adoptn, how to rpond when a iend announc that he or she is gay-intified, and more. Today she regularly teracts wh llege stunts about God’s tth regardg genr inty, homosexualy, and other hot-button Should We Rpond to Homosexualy (Joe Dallas) Dallas, a former homosexual, lls on the Church to repent of hostily and rem to bold love.
He enurag Christians not to be timidated by the gay rights movement but to promote tth and to build and provi a place of safety, keepg md the eternal souls of all Others Whout Sacrificg Convictn (Pastor Caleb Kaltenbach)Kaltenbach shar his story of growg up wh gay parents, and the hatred his fay experienced om Christians. Transformed by Grace: Leavg Homosexualy to Follow Christ (Beckett Cook) Becket Cook shar his story as a former homosexual who worked the world of fashn and lived a promiscuo liftyle until he had a transformg enunter wh J Christ which led him to walk away om Kdns to Open Doors the Culture (Dr. Foc on the Fay’s Christian Counselor NetworkSearch for licensed Christian unselors your Alliance for Theraptic Choice and Scientific Integry“A multi-disciplary profsnal and scientific anizatn dited to prervg the right of dividuals to obta the servic of a therapist who honors their valu, advotg for tegry and objectivy social science rearch, and ensurg that petent licensed, profsnal assistance is available for persons who experience unwanted homosexual attractns.
FOC ON THE FAY HEAD: “WE’VE PROBABLY LOST” ON GAY MARRIAGE
”Courage Internatnal, apostolate of the Catholic Church misters to those wh same-sex attractn and their loved Stream MistriThis mistry offers Christ-centered help for those who stggle wh sexual and relatnship Global AllianceExod Global Alliance provis remendatns of mistri and other rourc outsi the Uned Instute for Maral HealgRichard Fzgibbons has spent over 30 years helpg people al wh marriage and fay issu, fivens, homosexualy, and genr dysphoria/genr inty Seiler“Seiler once had plans to have sex reassignment surgery, change her name to David, and live happily ever after. Rtored Hope NetworkThis aln of mistri reach out to those who stggle wh sexual s, particularly Rogers CommunitnsRogers tells his story of leavg homosexualy and transgenrism, speaks about remptn for broken sexualy, and offers help for pure livg our hyper-sexualized culture.
Yet to anyone payg attentn, ’s clear the anizatn is foced on one specific kd of fay, and stead spends a lot of time, energy and money advotg agast equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people and their fai. What has grown is a much greater acceptance of gays and lbians our culture, as well as the social and enomic eedom for gays and lbians to emerge om the closet that has nfed them for so many generatns.
The recent addn of same sex mment ceremoni the Sunday New York Tim weddg and engagement announcements and the populary of shows as "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye…" dite a shift our culture's attu toward gays and lbians. My purpose today is not to support or fend gay and lbian marriag—ed, many gays and lbians do not want to marry—but simply suggt a theologil approach that might open up the possibily for greater Christian acceptance of, and eccliastil approval for, same sex unns.
18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
Catholic sistence: one n uphold the digny of homosexual people while not upholdg their right-to-marry; no unjt discrimatn towards homosexuals is acceptable; they mt be treated wh rpect, and their rights fend. Anti-gay marriage activists, though, aren’t gog down quietly; Mnota, a bill to put an anti-gay marriage referendum on the 2012 ballot recently passed the Hoe, and nservativ Iowa (wh an assist om Newt Ggrich) succsfully oted three state supreme urt judg who had led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal.
) But n’t help the anti-gay relig right to have such a proment social nservative say that the csa agast gay marriage has sentially been lost and that ’s time to accept that realy and move on. 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. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.
HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN
In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn.
A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi. AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals. The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party.
DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.