How Should Christians Rpond to Gay Friends or Fay Members? - Bla Magaze - Bla Universy

Contents:

• HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS RPOND TO GAY FRIENDS OR FAY MEMBERS?
• THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS
• I LOVE MY LBIAN NIECE LGBT GAY CLOTHG

HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS RPOND TO GAY FRIENDS OR FAY MEMBERS?

That’s bee Kaltenbach has an sir perspective, havg been raised by a dad and mom who divorced and penntly me out of the closet as a gay man and a lbian. Today, he manag the tensn of holdg to the tradnal biblil teachg on sexualy while lovg his gay parents. Kaltenbach’s unique story is tailed his new book Msy Grace: How a Pastor wh Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Whout Sacrificg Convictn and land him on the ont page of the New York Tim June.

In your book you say that ’s time for Christians to own the issue of homosexualy. If someone who is LGBT says that ’s not maly about sex, why immediately throw the “homosexualy vers” their way? I see this love lived out by some parents of gay teenagers.

Many examed Scripture, believe that sexual timacy is for a man and woman marriage, and aren’t homophobic or hateful. At some pot, they will throw out Bible vers ncerng homosexualy or marriage.

THE FIRST GAY PUB I DARED SET FOOT NOW HAS A RABOW PLAQUE. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

Is attendg a gay weddg a tac affirmatn of the sacredns of the vows beg exchanged?

However, all passag alg wh homosexualy agree that same-sex timacy isn’t God’s sign — monogamo or not.

I LOVE MY LBIAN NIECE LGBT GAY CLOTHG

Create support for parents of gay teenagers. ’07) is the lead pastor at Disvery Church Simi Valley, Calif., and the thor of Msy Grace: How a Pastor wh Gay Parents Learned to Love Others Whout Sacrificg Convictn. Frankly, I’d have served a prison jt for him to hold my hand, like he did his off-whe Vxhall Nova on the drive there, breakg only to change, he took me for strawberry cir the Gloucter, a pub at the park’s edge, takg my tremblg hand his and reassurg me: “It’s actually a gay bar.

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”After the strawberry cir, served by a man a tight whe vt – the only other gay man I’d seen real life – the squiggly summer sunlight ma a strobe effect through the park’s tre. The first time I saw wh him, when I was 18, I realised he had echoed the love story of the two protagonists, who also had their first kiss the twilight of Greenwich Park’s tre, and their first experience of a gay pub at the Gloucter. The explanatn for his obssn is now clear: there was such a pcy of same-sex love stori that this was the first time many young people had seen a same-sex kiss, or peeked si an actual gay bar after dark.