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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 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. * 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. [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.
OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
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? 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.
He reported that a clter of nrons a distct sectn of the bra (lled the terstial nuclei of the anterr hypothalam, or the INAH3) were generally smaller the homosexual men as pared to the heterosexual men. (5) LeVay’s own objectivy the rearch is qutn, sce he admted a September 9, 1991, Newsweek magaze that after the ath of his homosexual lover, he was termed to fd a geic e for homosexualy, or he would abandon science altogether.
WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
Unlike the prev argument which se homosexualy as normal or natural, proponents of the current argument suggt that homosexualy is an abnormal or unnaturalndn, or even an illns brought about by a number of factors beyond the ntrol of the dividual. If beg gay was a choice, I would never have ma that choice, for wh me the nsequenc of hurtg those I loved, the break up of my home, the loss of my children, alienatn om my fay and iends and church, the srn and ridicule of the general public.
But eventually, no longer able to ny to myself who and what I really was si, I had ‘accepted’ beg homosexual, and, extreme tratn, turned my back on fay, iends, God, and everythg I had worked for, and entered to the gay life ‘rightfully’ givg God all the cred (or blame). [13] Rponse to Argument #4: While not nyg the possibily that homosexualy may be ed by many batns of variabl, cludg blogil/geic or hormonal irregulari, there are ser problems wh the argument that homosexuals are somewhat sick or abnormal, or that homosexualy is not a s, but a ndn of sfulns.
First, perceptive crics, cludg advot of the Gay Right Movement, are movg away om the theori of geic-fect and hormonal irregulari for fear that other rearch fdgs showg some unacceptable ndns (like alholism, schizophrenia, cerebral palsy, etc. Such a perceptn, their opn, will be a reversal of the gas they ma when the Gay Right Movement succsfully lobbied to have the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn remove homosexualy om the tegori of abnormal behavr and mental illns For example, one scholar expos the tellectual and psychologil nsistency this “outmod versn of natural law” which seeks to make a fe distctn between homosexual orientatn and behavr.
WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
Rpondg to the view that “while homosexualy as an orientatn is ntrary to God's created tentn, the homosexual person ought not to be adversely judged or rejected by the church, ” this rearcher unters that while some may em such a posn a more tolerant and passnate view than outright nmnatn, “ plac gay men and lbians at least two impossible bds. As to the assumptn that bee homosexualy may be natural or born (an unproven assertn) is morally ntral or legimate, we may ask: If we would monstrate nclively that adultery, ct, pedophilia, vlence, lyg are hered, would we be jtified nsirg them legimate or ntral?
)" [21] The tth, however, is that “whether the homosexual is nial, latent, ‘ the closet, ’ openly gay, ‘married, ’ ant, or even a ‘flamg queen’; whether he believ to have been born ‘gay’ or ndned to be gay,...