Why us everyone embracing gays
I was laying on the couch, deathly ill from some bug I had caught. I had it in my mind to approach out to my mom first. I was quite hesitant. Being gay isn’t considered the “norm” in most families, at least not mine. I was about sixteen years old, a terrifying age/time/era to even consider the consequences of saying “Hey, I’m gay!”confronted by so much hatred beforehand, it made me even more resilient.
I wanted to come out even more. The hatred is what drove me to rotate into my most authentic self. I proceeded to inform my mom I am gay, and then it explosively turned into “I’m Bi,” which was yet another stretch. I finally got the nerve to say, “Yes, I am GAY.” The backlash was awful. You will possess friends, family, etc…turn their backs on you, separate and distance themselves from you, or express you are going against their view of what “God” says or wants, and that’s OK.
People will tell you, “It’s just a phase,” or, “You’ll grow out o fit,” which isn’t very encouraging. Creature a part of the LGBTQ+ people is one of the most empowering things one can do. They express, “It’s a choice,” like we arouse up one night asking for our lives to be so utterly destroyed by narrow-minded, dogmatic,
BreakPoint: Why Some Christians Embrace LGBT Theology
What if I told you that the best arguments to embrace LGBT ideology in the church aren’t really arguments at all?
Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” is often credited with saying that you can’t reason someone out of something they were never reasoned into.
I’m often reminded of this quotation while listening to self-identifying Christians argue in support of same-sex relationships. Rarely perform I ever hear an actual argument, certainly not from Scripture. What I do hear are experiences—how befriending an LGBT person or getting a certain feeling or receiving a supposed message from God should lead Christians to a new view of sex, marriage, and the human person—a view the church has unanimously rejected for two millennia.
Recently, the Human Rights Campaign released a so-called “faith guide” that offers a glaring example of just this kind of thinking. It’s full of the alike bad “arguments” that are trotted out over and over. Even so, they’re worth discussing because people are still falling for them.
HRC’s new guide is entitled “Coming Home to Evangelicalism and Self,” and purportedly offers ways
As a child,when I reflection of the future, all I could see was black. I wasn't miserable or depressed. I was a cheerful boy, as happy playing with my posse of male friends in elementary school as I was when I would occasionally take a day by myself in the woodlands that surrounded the small town I grew up in. But when I thought of the distant future, of what I would complete and be as a grown-up, there was a blank. I simply didn't know how I would live, where I would live, who I could live with. I knew one thing only: I couldn't be like my dad. For some reason, I knew somewhere thick down that I couldn't have a marriage appreciate my parents.
It's hard to convey what that feeling does to a kid. In retrospect, it was a sharp, displacing wound to the psyche. At the very moment you become aware of sex and emotion, you simultaneously know that for you, there is no future coupling, no future family, no future home. In the future, I would be suddenly exiled from what I knew: my family, my friends, every household on television, every end to every amorous movie I'd ever seen. My grandmother crystallized it in classic and slightly cruel English fashion: "You're not the marrying kind," she said. It
Nearly half of LGBTQ adults are religious, U.S. examine finds
Almost half of LGBTQ adults in the Combined States are religious, according to a recent notify from the UCLA Academy of Law’s Williams Institute.
Of nearly 16,000 respondents polled in the Gallup Daily Tracking Survey, 47 percent were either moderately or highly religious. Those who were older, Black or lived in the South were the most likely to be religious, researchers found.
To determine religiosity, respondents were asked about service attendance and the importance of religion in their daily lives.
Respondents who said religion was not an important part of their daily life and they never or seldom attended services were categorized as “not religious.” Those who indicated religion was vital — even if they attended services less than once a month — were classified as “moderately religious,” as were those who attended services weekly, even if they said religion was not vital in their lives.
Respondents who said religion was an important facet of their daily life and they attended regular services were categorized as “highly religious.”
By that metric, 27 percent were classified as moderately religious, 20 pe
Written by Patric Peters
I recently saw a sponsored social media publish by a Catholic that said “Call the LGBTQ society for what they are: sexual degenerates.” A Catholic website garnered over 90,000 signatures in shots to stop a recent LGBTQ ministry conference at Fordham University — a conference whose unassuming goal was “to build community, participate best practices and worship together.” Meanwhile, a prominent Catholic speaker campaigns to “Reclaim the Month” of June — with t-shirts and everything! — for the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which is apparently threatened by Pride month.
And this is just a mild sample — and all in my limited purview as a Catholic whose life with LGBTQ endorse has otherwise been generally positive.
Unsurprisingly, the Christian community at large offers a range of perspectives on LGBTQ issues. Many progressive churches perform same-sex marriages, ordain openly male lover ministers, and hug theologies that permit for a more inclusive sexual anthropology. Many other churches maintain a traditional Christian sexual ethic and understanding of marriage. The Catholic Church itself, while officially upholding its longstanding sexual training and ethics,