2010: Figuratively if not factually, it’s the dawn of a new decade.
What resolutions should Exodus International and Focus on the Family make for the new decade, assuming they stay true to “Christian” or “American” values?
Please give us your ideas TODAY — winners to be included in an article tomorrow.
Both of these large anti-gay advocacy groups should resolve to stop promoting the anti-gay agenda.
Well, I would like to see Exodus follow the example of Courage UK, which some years ago saw the light and transformed itself from an “ex-gay” ministry into a ministry supporting and affirming gay Christians — without suggesting that they were obliged to live lives of perpetual sexual abstinence.
Failing that, however, Exodus could abandon its use of misleading language, both in its adverts and generally.
Focus on the Family could consider doing something that would actually benefit families, just for a change.
Focus and Exodus should resolve to remain true to their biblically orthodox convictions and speak God’s glorious truth about the male-female complementarity of human sex and sexuality in both love and compassion.
They should resolve to boldly continue offering the Gospel message of joy, peace, hope, and forgiveness and freedom from sin found only in the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
Focus on the Family and Exodus should resolve to pray even more and enlist others to pray for the LGBT community. Their prayer should be that individuals who identify as LGBT would come to know the goodness and love of God and their need for a Savior, Jesus Christ.
They should also continue to pray that LGBT-identified men and women would understand the truth of God’s intention for full sexual expression to be between a man and a woman within a marriage relationship.
Oh yeah, Kevin, thanks; that reminds me. Both Exodus and Focus on the Family could ditch this fanciful, contrived, Christianized yin-yang theory of “complementarity” (the word doesn’t even appear in my 1974 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary), and could recognize that two gay or lesbian people of the same sex complement each other just as much as two straight people of opposite sexes.
Oh, and just one other thing, as Lt Columbo would say. All “ex-gay” and anti-gay organizations could stop using the words “love” and “compassion” as code words for hate and psychological/spiritual abuse.
Kevin said “They should resolve to boldly continue offering the Gospel message of joy, peace, hope, and forgiveness and freedom from sin found only in the transforming power of Jesus Christ”.
Continue? They’ve never sent a message of joy, peace, or hope to LGBT people. Their message has been to live a sexless life devoid of love and romance or you’ll be eternally tortured. Their’s is a message of loneliness, despair, and torture.
John said “Focus on the Family and Exodus should resolve to pray even more and enlist others to pray for the LGBT community. Their prayer should be that individuals who identify as LGBT would come to know the goodness and love of God and their need for a Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Any being that would eternally torture people for the harmless act of being in a loving same sex relationship knows nothing about goodness or love. One can only be saved from such a being, not saved by.
Well said, Priya.
1. Read a science book that wasn’t written by a flat-earth knuckle dragging moron once in a while, and maybe they’d realize that their “complementarity” arguments are pretty much crap.
2. Try to send out a message of Christ’s love for the first time in their lives.
And of course…
3. Collect underpants.
4. ???
5. Profit!
(#5 they’re already doing, handily, but they should look for a new way to go about it that doesn’t involve tearing families apart.)
Oh, and fundamentalist commenters at TWO could stop pretending they’re multiple people by using different names, because, um, we see your IP addresses.
Dinguses.
They’re not going to become pro-gay in our lifetime. Some realistic goals:
*Alan Chambers should grow a spine and fearlessly and frequently that he still has daily homosexual thoughts and that homosexuals can’t become heterosexual. He already thinks it and says it quietly. Just increase the volume.
*Abandon the double speak of “There’s freedom from being gay” and “You can change” that imply heterosexuality. Instead, “You’ll always be tempted, but you don’t have to give in.”
*Gay and lesbian celibacy should be celebrated. Ex-gays entering into heterosexual marriages should not be encouraged.
*Speakers should not include “and then I got married had 2 kids” at the end of testimonies, implying their heterosexuality.
*FotF should allocate more of their money towards anything not related to homosexuality.
*Stop stating and implying pro-gay Christians don’t exist. Agree to disagree.