Melda Selmys, faiar to the rears of Crisis as a leadg voice among the gay Christian movement, recently wrote an say she lled “10 Reasons Why…
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GAY MARRIAGE VS. NATURAL LAW
Perhaps opponents of gay marriage believe Biblil arguments have ltle tractn a pluralistic society. Perhaps they have been persuad that the biblil s agast homosexualy are unpersuasive.
Even acceptg those premis, is not clear that one mt oppose the legal regnn of same-sex marriage, bee is not “homosexualy” that threatens to stroy fai, but rather “homophobia” that do so. I follow the meang of “homophobia” Dale Mart offers Sex and the Sgle Savr.
By “homophobia, ” I mean “the loathg of homosexualy that aris om a ep-seated…fear of homosexualy. This fear of homosexualy stroys fai by g nflict between parents and children. Vast lerature exists about how to “e out” to parents, how parents n overe fear, grief, and anger njured by enunterg a child’s homosexualy, and how parents n move to greater acceptance of their gay children.