I have a feeling our readers of faith will appreciate this piece from John Shore over at HuffPost. He sets it up by explaining that among most Christians, the false and ridiculous idea that sexuality can be “changed,” is being largely rejected, to be replaced by a new argument:
Nowadays, the Christian refrain isn’t, “Stop being gay.” Now it is, “Stop acting gay.” They’ve given up trying to argue that the homosexual can change his or her sexual orientation: the complete failure of Christian Fix-a-Gay and Homo No’ Mo! programs—not to mention a universe of anecdotal and empirical evidence—have left them little choice. So they’ve changed their approach. Now the argument is … well, just like my emailer said: A homosexual struggling against the temptation to act homosexual is no different from anyone else struggling to resist a sinful temptation.
Christians love this new argument. If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it ten thousand times. We all have. You whisper “gay” into the ear of a sleeping Christian, and there’s an excellent chance they’ll just start saying it in their sleep. “Just like any other sinful temptation. We’re all sinners. Must resist.”
And putting your brain to sleep before you say that is the very best way to say it, too. Because it could only make sense to a brain-dead person. It’s just . . . too stupid for words.
But lemme try anyway.
And he does. Read it all. Seriously. It’s that good.
“When you tell a gay person to “resist” being gay, what you are really telling them—what you really mean—is for them to be celibate.” — yeah, we saw how successful that was for the RC priesthood, and that is supposedly ‘voluntary’; besides, if people want a reason to hate someone and treat them like s**t, they will find one.
The progressive Christian movement (also called Emergent Christianity) needs to speak out more in support of lgbt people. As it is now, the general public thinks the conservative haters speak for all Christendom, and they don’t.
“Good ” Christians who do not support hateful anti-Gay Christians yet do not speak out, are as guilty of their faith’s hate as those who promote anti gay hate. For me, Christianity is just voodoo. But their hate is real.
110% what JAG said. Those moderate/good xtians are complicit in the sins of their neocon brethren, at least to the extent that they do not openly deplore any form of bigotry.
If only they could resist the temptation to shove their chosen religious lifestyle on the entire world.
Actually Voodoo is a religion which is a blend of Roman Catholicism and African Animisim.
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