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Contents:
- WHY GAY IS NOT OK
- IT’S “OKAY” TO BE GAY, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ’S OK TO BE GAY, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS ISN’T?
WHY GAY IS NOT OK
Mike Haley was gay until almost 10 years ago, when he rejected homosexualy. A youth and genr specialist wh Foc on the Fay, he is now active ex-gay youth mistry, leadg semars around the untry.
After speakg to a group of high school senrs about the damage of viewg homosexualy as a normal, alternative liftyle, I opened up for qutns. But how n we unter arguments for homosexualy whout relyg on Scripture, which our opponents may dismiss as valid? While I wasn't ready for my Q&A ssn wh the high schoolers, I vowed that I'd learn to prent a biblil view of homosexualy to nonbelievers.
IT’S “OKAY” TO BE GAY, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY
Argument #1: "One of every 10 people is gay. They vised a seven-pot sle that placed exclive heterosexualy and exclive homosexualy at oppose pol, wh bisexualy at the midpot.
Usg this sle, the rearchers averaged figur supportg their claims that 10 percent of mal between the ag of 16 and 55 were more or ls exclively homosexual for at least three years. On March 31, 1993, The Wall Street Journal ran an article tled "Homosexuals and the 10-Percent Fallacy. Gordon Muir reported that he had found "substantial evince ditg that ls than 5 percent of men and women have had any homosexual ntact their lifetime, and no more than 3 percent of men and nsirably fewer women claim to be bisexual or exclively homosexual.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Dpe the fdgs, some groups ntue to e the 10 percent figure to make homosexualy sound more wispread. Argument #2: "People are born gay.
The latt rearch on this area, published this April Science, uld not reproduce the fdgs of a prev study which had tied homosexual behavr to certa geic patterns.
WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ’S OK TO BE GAY, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS ISN’T?
Each of most choose his battl wisely--and I would not die on the sword of a nongeic lk to homosexualy.
Even if rearchers were to suggt a heredary tie wh homosexualy, as they have wh alholism, the right tack wh this argument is not to ntend that 's false, but that promot life-threateng behavr. Consir the mortaly rat for alholics and homosexuals.