Contents:
- A GAY MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
- WELL, THAT'S NOT GOOD -- SDA CHURCH SEATTLE TO HOST PRO-GAY MEETG ON SABBATH
- SEVENTH-GAY ADVENTISTS
- ETHICS FOR GAY CHRISTIANS?: THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST EXPERIENCE
A GAY MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
SECC also approv of and tolerat such thgs as pro gay Glendale Cy SDA problem is not jt a "difference of opn" the Adventist Church, there's a huge group of lears the NAD, PUC, and SECC who actively spise Adventism and unrme om wh. Homosexuals also fell to the send tegory: jt as an unmarried pregnant member was seen as shamg the church, when a gay or lbian was disvered among s members — and those days disvery was ually the rult of the publitn the prs of the nam of those arrted followg a police raid on a gay meetg place — this was seen as embarrassg, and that person was purged immediately.
WELL, THAT'S NOT GOOD -- SDA CHURCH SEATTLE TO HOST PRO-GAY MEETG ON SABBATH
This quickly garnered support om key anizatns: the Amerin Bar Associatn issued a ll for the crimalizatn of homosexual behavr between nsentg adults 1973, and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn voted to remove homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs the same year. For example, when, 1977, Ana Bryant succsfully took the lead the mpaign to reverse a civil rights ordance that had helped protect homosexuals agast discrimatn employment and hog Da County, Florida, her mpaign spawned bumper stickers that urged people to “Kill a gay for Christ.
However, the relig right, ma up of fundamentalists, Mormons, and many Catholics and Evangelils, is strivg to unrme same-sex marriage, and their ngregatns rarely wele people known to be homosexual. Vernon Henrshot, who was print of the Adventist Semary when was loted at the General Conference plex Washgton, DC, disappeared sudnly after beg arrted durg a police raid on a gay meetg place 1952.
SEVENTH-GAY ADVENTISTS
For example, a stunt at Avondale College, Atralia, the 1970s, who nfsed to beg homosexual between his fal examatns and graduatn, was not allowed to graduate and fally received his gree the mail a year later.
ETHICS FOR GAY CHRISTIANS?: THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST EXPERIENCE
” Although the number of church members whose homosexualy was disvered so dramatilly was relatively small, the proportn of gay and lbian members who grew up the church was no doubt about average, and many others also joed as adults. Although unselors and pastors regularly advised homosexuals to pray for liverance, and to date a woman and marry her expectatn that God would answer their prayers, two books on sex published durg the 1970s regnized that change orientatn was unlikely and urged that dive strength be enlisted to rist temptatns.