Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
- WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
- WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* gay main point *
The homosexual inty and other groups of “viant” people who were typified by the medil field “were signed to prerve and foster a productive and procreative populatn (or workforce) that met the needs of a velopg palist system”, wrote Spargo.
E., nclive evince exists to prove that homosexualy is geic or born; and sce homosexuals are born gay, their sexual orientatn is a natural or normal tra of their inty (like the lor of the sk or hair), and the orientatn is allowed or given by God; a person's homosexual orientatn is morally ntral and unchangeable.
For example, one Adventist mother wrote that after she had spent “years of readg, observg, and eventually talkg to people, ” her homosexual son fally nfirmed to her that ed, “homosexualy is a ndn, not a behavr. In his article entled, "A Newly Revealed Christian Experience, " a self-avowed gay Christian on the Prbyterian task force studyg homosexualy, explas that gay Christians are "the bt source" for the Church to unrstand homosexualy.
OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
[2] Siarly, a Uned Church of Christ mister stat this new approach to knowg (epistemology): Rather than lookg to the psychologists and the psychiatrists and the soclogists, and even to the theologians, to fd out about gay people, there is a need to listen to gay people wh our church and wh the society, to beg to unrstand what we perceive to be the problems, and then together to work on those problems. [3] A Prceton Theologil Semary profsor of Old Ttament Language and Lerature, an ordaed elr the Prbyterian Church (USA), bt articulated why we supposedly need to go to homosexuals themselv to learn the tth about homosexualy.
WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
Assumg even that homosexual orientatn is part of a person’s nstutnal make up (jt as a person's lor or genr is), n te knowledge about that ndn be accurately obtaed by only persons wh that kd of sexual inty? Could be that a sire to appear more "rmed" and perhaps more "passnate, " some Christians are givg the imprsn that they are ethilly and religly more knowledgeable and "sensive" than the spired Bible wrers who nmned the practice of homosexualy?
WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
Not only mt homosexualy be accepted as socially legal for homosexuals, mt also be promoted as a normal liftyle optn and, if necsary, the church mt be prsured to abandon s alleged immoral discrimatn agast homosexuals seekg church membership.