Most conservative Christians answer Yes to that question. And same-sex-attracted persons listening feel condemned because they understand homosexuality to be their sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality is a sexual orientation.
But when conservative Christians say “homosexuality,” they usually think of gay sex, rather than sexual orientation. And that creates a lot of misunderstanding. Read More
As a crisis line volunteer, I took a phone call from a mother who had been sexually abused as a child. She told me about the abuse and it soon became apparent that she was blaming all her problems onto the abuse. She told me about the hard financial times that she was facing. I could hear a child crying in the background. It was obvious that she was overwhelmed with frustrations. Read More
Many gay Christian men wonder whether they should come out of the closet or continue to quietly hide behind the mask and appear like everyone else. Read More
David probably looks pretty confident to most people, but he writes about his problem of dealing with attention from other men. “I’m just about as insecure as the next guy. I mean, I hold my own in a discussion, I conduct choirs and orchestras with a minimum of challenges, I speak in front of groups about the Bible with no trouble at all, I can even handle a classroom full of junior high kids for 80 minutes at a time.” Read more at his blog, “Gay and Evangelical.”
Many Christians believe that “homosexual behavior” is the worst of sins and that God hates homosexuals,based on Leviticus 18, 22 and Leviticus 20:13, where same-sex intercourse is called an “abomination.”
Does the Bible really justify this conclusion? Read More
Although most men identify themselves as straight, some will say that they are gay, and there are a others who would rather be called “bi.”
I have trouble with these labels Read More
“God made me gay” is a common justification for engaging in gay sex. After all, if God didn’t approve of gay sex, “it would be like creating a bird with wings and telling it not to fly.” It’s a variation of the “The devil made me do it” argument. Both arguments assume that we cannot choose our behavior.
Let’s take this argument apart just a little Read More
Some time ago, someone asked, “Are you folks who believe in ‘love the sinner but hate the sin’ advocating treating a person differently because they are ‘in sin’?”
That’s a valid question. Read More
The ancient children’s ditty, “Sticks and stones can hurt my bones, but words can never hurt me!” was probably chanted in defiance of hurtful epithets, while the wounds went deep into the soul. Things don’t change much for adults. Words do hurt. Read More
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