What’s wrong wh beg “gay”? Here’s what they don’t tell you.

Contents:

• "THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG
• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
• IS WRONG TO BE GAY?
• IS BEG GAY A S?

"THAT'S SO GAY" IS JT SO WRONG

Spend any time around teens, and you’re likely to hear the mon exprsn, “That’s so gay" — even among gay kids. If you ask them about , as some rearchers have, they often will sist that is not tend as homophobic language, jt a harmls phrase to exprs tratn or somethg siar.

Studi reveal that 30 percent of gay adolcents stggle wh suicidal thoughts. “That’s so gay” is always pejorative, always harmful, and always homophobic. Thk about this: For thoands of years, religns have lled homosexualy an abomatn.

People still get murred if someone thks they are gay, and not jt other untri. Gay Equals Sex. When most people hear the term LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual or transsexual), for stance, they equate to havg adult sex.

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.

Another client’s mother once ught him lookg at gay porn, and said, horrified, “You’re not gay, are you? ” Later when the parents learned their children were gay, they apologized to them for sayg the thgs, but the damage was already done. I heard you say whout knowg I was gay.

Hearg kids sayg, “that’s so gay” every day mak the people and everythg else around them qutnable: Are thgs safe or dangero? What, then, n be done about makg kids (and the rt of ) more aware of the harm g such phras as “That’s so gay? But parents who are enough aware of language’s substrata n help by helpg their kids’ schools unrstand the value of practicg the same kd of zero tolerance for homophobic language that they do for racist or anti-Semic or bullyg language.

The bt thg I have seen is the mpaign “ThkB4YouSpeak” by GLSEN (Gay, Lbian School Edutor Network). Anti-LGBT remarks such as “that’s so gay” are often untentnal and a mon part of teens’ vernacular. I thk 's implied clearly and spoken clearly Romans 1:24-29 that homosexualy is wrong and to be avoid.

IS WRONG TO BE GAY?

And I thk Pl 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists a very unual phrase about homosexualy where he says, "Those who do such thgs"—and he lists along wh greed and vetons and other ss, so 's not unique by self this—"those who do such thgs will not enter the kgdom of heaven. 2) As I reflect on Romans 1 and the way Pl unpacks the problem wh homosexualy, appears to me that Pl is sayg somethg like this: When you exchange the glory of God for idols, the ma one that you exchange the glory of God for is yourself. Don't hear me sayg that homosexual temptatns are the only way that kd of self-idolatry emerg.

A person who wrtl wh homosexual temptatns and sir has the same choice: to s wh , or to be chaste and to seek to overe and to move to somethg more God-appoted. Assumg you have neher the time nor the tert readg through more than 650 onle ments on the issue of homosexualy and moraly posted jt this week to Change of Subject, let me offer, below, the top 7 arguments om rears who supported the posn of Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Jot Chiefs of Staff, who told the Tribune Monday he believed that “believe homosexual acts between two dividuals are immoral.

Homosexual acts are this is certaly te, statistilly -- homosexualy is not the norm – we don’t tradnally or otherwise equate “normal” behavr wh moraly. Homosexual acts are argument tak two tacks.

IS BEG GAY A S?

The first says, wrongly, that animals don’t exhib homosexual behavr. The send says, rrectly, that homosexualy volv g body parts ways that nature clearly didn’t tend. Homosexual acts, like homosexual relatnships, have no blogil purpose bee they n’t rult the birth of this is te, but aga reli on a supposed prciple that we don’t otherwise follow.