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27, KalorkotiTHE anti-gay iology that has long held sway Amerin evangelilism seems to be cmblg. Conservativ’ sistence that the Bible proscrib homosexual acts and their claim that protectg gay rights g on their own relig liberty have pend on another assumptn not found Scripture: that homosexualy is not a blogilly rooted inty but a sful temptatn, an addictn that one mt noisy backlash agast the Supreme Court’s legalizatn of gay marriage nnot mask the signs that this assumptn is losg s grip.
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This is, part, a untertuive legacy of tradnal ex-gay mistri. Participants often acknowledged their stggl wh “relapse, ” and their ttimoni “pot to the stabily and changeabily of their own inti rather than serve as a ttament to heterosexualy, ” the ethnographer Tanya Erzen wrote her study of ex-gay mistri, “Straight to J.
In an era when the right worships the nuclear fay and the left celebrat sexual thenticy and gay marriage, celibate gay Christians have no fortable home on eher si of the polil spectm. ”Many celibate gay evangelils look outsi the Prottant tradn and reach to ancient history for help thkg about lonels and sire.
Wley Hill, an assistant profsor of biblil studi at Try School for Mistry Pennsylvania and a celibate gay Christian, told me he draws spiratn om Catholic thkers like the Dutch prit Henri Nouwen, who was attracted to Hill left his childhood nomatn, the Southern Baptist Conventn, for the Anglin Communn, which emphasiz s Catholic past and has a monastic tradn. In his most recent book, “Spirual Friendship, ” he followed the footsteps of historians like John Boswell, who argued that the medieval church was a surprisgly hospable place for gay Christians. “They thk would be a way of smugglg same-sex erotic attractn, to fd an acceptable way of beg gay, havg a lover, ” he told and Ldsey, a celibate lbian uple who don’t reveal their last nam on their blog “A Queer Callg, ” worshiped Eastern Orthodox church for several years.
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“Words like ‘iend’ and ‘sister’ don’t aquately scribe every stance of meangful relatnship between one Begue woman and another, ” they who seek to persua evangelil church to embrace gay celibacy face an uphill battle, and not only bee Mart Luther wrote that “to spurn marriage is to act agast God’s llg” and “agast nature’s urgg.
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”BUT do liberals’ emphasis on gay marriage effectively send the same msage? “If you end up acceptg the progrsive posn, you then have a future: Gay people, you’re supposed to get married, have romance, have children, and that’s how you get secury and stave off lonels, ” said Eve Th, a celibate Catholic lbian wrer who has a growg followg among evangelils.
“But if you don’t change your sexual ethic, then the challenge to your cultural md-set is very ep bee you’re no longer able to offer gay people the forms of adult love that our culture regniz.