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Contents:
- ‘GOD MA ME GAY’
- LLIE JORDAN TELLS SHANIA TWA 'GOD MA ME' GAY, WHY HE 'QU GOG' TO CHURCH: 'I'M NOT A MISTAKE'
- DO GOD MAKE PEOPLE GAY? A THEOLOGIAN RPONDS
- “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
- THE GOSPEL FOR A GAY FRIEND
- THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
- GOD MA ME GAY
‘GOD MA ME GAY’
This appeal to personal experience is so pellg to so many people that Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, their 1989 “gay manifto” After the Ball, remend that homosexual advot work to persua the public that “gays are victims of circumstance, that they no more chose their sexual orientatn than they did, say, their height, sk lor, talents, or limatns.
LLIE JORDAN TELLS SHANIA TWA 'GOD MA ME' GAY, WHY HE 'QU GOG' TO CHURCH: 'I'M NOT A MISTAKE'
Gays should be nsired to have been “born gay”—even though sexual orientatn, for most humans, seems to be the product of a plex teractn between nate predisposns and environmental factors durg childhood and early adolcence.
DO GOD MAKE PEOPLE GAY? A THEOLOGIAN RPONDS
Even though ’s a good example of an ner sire that most people agree we shouldn’t act on (though ’s creasgly beg viewed clil circl as a “sexual orientatn” like any other), most people will jt hear you sayg that “homosexualy is the same as pedophilia. In an terview wh Shania Twa on the first anniversary of her Home Now Rad show on Apple Mic Hs, Jordan, 66, opened up about his childhood and what was like to be gay growg up a relig fay, as he talked about his recently released Company's Com'.
“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”
Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. She is a equent speaker for MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) and Stonecroft Mistri (Christian Women's Connectns), and serv on the board of Livg Hope Mistri, a Christ-centered outreach to those alg wh unwanted homosexualy.
Then I wrote this letter to Louise, reflectg what I now have e to believe is the tth about homosexualy, what the Bible says and what God wants to thk and do about I want others to study serly this matter of such importance to many liv and many church and nomatns.
THE GOSPEL FOR A GAY FRIEND
LoweJanuary 2002To: Louise, ar iend, beloved of GodFrom: Bce, by the immeasurable grace of God, a brother ChristYour heavy-hearted words to Anna Marie and me the last time we saw you will always burn our hearts: "My brother hat God bee God ma him gay, and he knows he is gog to hell, and I do, too, for that is what the Bible says.
It distrs me, though, to realize that most others of our church people do not know the facts about homosexualy and what the Bible really says, and that their thkg, like my prev ncept, is based on supposns, not facts, and on feelgs, which, of urse, have no place a thoughtful nsiratn of facts.
THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
Advanc the scienc, particularly psychology, the last 100 years have shown that not all people are heterosexual; some are homosexual, and their homosexualy is an unchangeable nature, not a ncept of a homosexual nature first appeared prt Europe 1869 and the Uned Stat 1889. The Amerin Psychologil Associatn followed wh siar actn two years Thielicke, a theologian nservativ rpect highly and quote often, regnized his work, The Ethics of Sex, wrten some forty years ago, that at least some gays and lbians have "nstutnal homosexualy, " and therefore we mt "accept" the fact that is "curable, " that "our attu toward [] chang" [his alics].
GOD MA ME GAY
"1-1Evince that homosexualy is unchangeable clus: (a) ten thoand suicis each year of young homosexuals unwillg to face life wh that orientatn; (b) the high percentage of homosexuals who go to psychotherapists sperately wantg to change their orientatn, and then (c) the very small percentage of them reportedly beg changed after hundreds of hours and thoands of dollars beg spent psychotherapy; (d) the lns of homosexuals who rema " the closet, " not actg like homosexuals and not wantg anyone to learn of their orientatn; (e) the thoands who are reported as g to pastors and unselors vastated to have to regnize their unchangeable orientatn and wantg assistance alg wh .