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Contents:

• YOUTUBE STAR LOGAN PL SPARKS CONTROVERSY FOR SAYG HE WANTS TO 'GO GAY' FOR A MONTH
• GAY LOGIC: HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU EVER BELIEVE THIS?
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
• AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?
• THE LOGIC AS TO WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
• GAY UP
• THE CHOICE OF CHILDREN: THE LOGIC OF GAY MARRIAGE AND ABORTN
• WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
• GAY INS LIL NAS X, DAN LEVY DEFY LOGIC, MAKE PROMIS SUPER BOWL ADS
• GAY, LBIAN, AND TRANS FAI THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: A REVOLUTN OR A PLURALISATN OF FORMS OF PARENTHOOD?

YOUTUBE STAR LOGAN PL SPARKS CONTROVERSY FOR SAYG HE WANTS TO 'GO GAY' FOR A MONTH

Logan Pl, an ter personaly wh nearly 19 ln followers on YouTube, has ed an uproar for sayg that he wants to “go gay” for a month. Many people wrote on social media that Pl implied that beg gay is a choice, and clearly do not take the threat of homophobia serly.

Dear Gay Friend, as you read this or listen to the podst, I appeal to you to differentiate between my affectn for you and my opn about your life choic.

I do not adhere to the “gay logic” that says there is only their view and they will not stop until I believe as they do. Usg “gay logic, ” any person uld twist scripture to jtify their practic while admonishg anyone who is agast them. I’m no more willg to ndone homosexualy as I am eager to tolerate my list of offens agast God.

GAY LOGIC: HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU EVER BELIEVE THIS?

For example, they had won over the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn when the DSM-4 revised s prr unrstandg of the gay liftyle. This kd of polil, evangelistic advancement has done a lot our untry to brg the gay muny to a better light.

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

There are three ma dmbeats that some gay folks nsistently sound as part of their evangelistic outreach to change the culture. This worldview means Jerry Sandky is not wrong for explog people wh his gay practic—we should accept him and judge not. I want my gay iends to know that I am not angry wh them and have no sire for harm to e to them.

The gay muny has experienced legimate hurt om a few mean-spired Christians, who were more s-centered than gospel-centered. ” When my gay iends talk about our harshns, ’s not the time for me to argue wh them as though ’s not te.

My gay iends have shared about the hypocrisy of Christian people bee of their horrific experienc wh a few uncharable on. The few Christians beme the shapg fluence on how some the gay muny thk about all Christians. I would never say that the gay perspective about harsh Christiany is accurate bee I have experienced the unkdns of those who are my brothers and sisters.

AT WHAT AGE DO KIDS INTIFY AS GAY?

I’m not sayg that every angry gay person beme that way bee of how a few Christians treated them, but that is part of the problem. I am sad bee my legalistic iends have displayed gracels, self-righteo attus, and I’m sad bee this has been a shapg fluence on a few of my gay iends. This perspective is what you will hardly hear om the gay muny when they talk about how the Christians are agast them.

THE LOGIC AS TO WHY GAY MARRIAGE SHOULD BE ILLEGAL

While I don’t ndone mean-spired Christians, I also don’t ndone gay people who have a hostile attu toward Christians. If the gay muny do not like how a few unkd believers treat them, then beg like them is not a mature rponse.

The gay muny should be tryg to help arrogant Christians to mature the grace that we tmpet, rather than beg trated wh the immature people who don’t accept them. The way the gay logic distorts the argument is by nflatg two different thgs: beg gay is s and beg black is s, and Christians hate both groups. But if they believe they are the same as the black person, they n easily nclu that Christians have an ax to grd agast the gays and blacks for the same reason.

But to say they should embrace the gay muny siarly is takg advantage of a suatn for selfish reasons, which would distort clear biblil teachg. Some people nsir themselv gay bee they are attracted to members of their own genr, even if they do not act on those attractns.

GAY UP

So may be biblilly allowable for a pastor to nsir himself gay—that is, he stggl wh homosexual attractn—if he is mted to sexual pury, never acts on those sir, and never enurag anyone else to do so (see Romans 1:32). This qutn of whether the Bible warrants a gay pastor was unheard of until the last uple of s.

There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church. The sfulns of homosexualy has never been up for bate until our sexually exploive culture cid should be.

THE CHOICE OF CHILDREN: THE LOGIC OF GAY MARRIAGE AND ABORTN

God’s Word is as clear on the s of homosexual behavr as has always been (Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corthians 6:9). A pastor is a fallible human beg jt like those his ngregatn; so is biblilly allowable for him to stggle wh homosexual sir, adultero sir, greedy sir, priful sir, etc. A pastor who choos to live a homosexual liftyle is unf to gui a ngregatn and has missed the pot of what means to follow J (John 14:15, 23).

Unls we are willg to forsake our s, cludg the s of homosexual behavr, we nnot be followers of J.

WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

Jt as we nnot clare that is allowable for a pastor to actively pursue other ss, we nnot clare that is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay.

One of the ma issu wh trackg when kids start to intify as gay is that most people assume that all kids start out straight. The realy is that many kids know they are gay at a younger age than you might expect – even elementary school.

While a portn of kids intify as gay elementary school, what is the age when most kids e out as gay? That beg said, some rearchers om the Sexualy Informatn and Edutn Council of the Uned Stat talked wh llege stunts who intify as gay and bisexual to learn when they were aware of their sexual preferenc.

GAY INS LIL NAS X, DAN LEVY DEFY LOGIC, MAKE PROMIS SUPER BOWL ADS

This data prov the vast majory of LGBTQ+ kids intify as gay before they leave for llege – or intify their sexual preferenc shortly after. “As long as I was the closet, all of my cisns — both nsc and subnsc — were guid by not wantg people to know I was gay, ” Felts told the Washgton Post. By keepg marriage about blogil children of both partners, at lt partially, is perfectly reasonable to exclu gays whout beg prejudiced whatsoever.

GAY, LBIAN, AND TRANS FAI THROUGH THE LENS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: A REVOLUTN OR A PLURALISATN OF FORMS OF PARENTHOOD?

People have var fn, I'm potg out that logil fn exist that would exclu gays whout beg discrimatory. Bee marriage vers people who nnot bear children, or who do not want children whout disqualifitn, there is no reason to disqualify homosexuals. Otherwise, we would have to adm that homosexuals should be allowed to marry bee they uld adopt children, and still plete the "maral un.

Fally, expla why our society would e this ftn of marriage (which has not been suably fed to my taste), except to ny marriage to homosexuals? Edor’s Note: The brilliant Arthur Evans passed away last year, a polymath activist-tellectual whose published works spanned om 1978’s Wchcraft and the Gay Counterculture to 1997’s Crique of Patriarchal Reason and beyond. This piece n be seen as a special se of what Evans saw as the central tenncy of Wtern philosophy sce the Greeks, the elevatn of formal logic to the stature of Tth and the intifitn of this method wh the mascule, thereby tablishg an “objective” basis for male domance and homophobia.

What’s more, this form of “patriarchal reason” was boosted the 20th century by two closeted gay philosophers, Otto Weger and Ludwig Wtgenste.