I wrote about this when it happened a few weeks ago, but here is CBN reporting on Exodus’ Alan Chambers being named World magazine’s “Daniel of the Year.” At first I figured they called it that in allusion to the Biblical character of Daniel and the whole lion’s den story, but maybe “Daniel” is just some guy who likes dudes but is married to a lady, which would make Alan Chambers a perfect recipient.
In that report, I love where they mention the Exodus iPhone app being pulled during 2011. In case you forgot, we did that.
[h/t Joe]
There are real Christians who are out there doing good works- feeding the hungry, tending to the sick and needy, embracing the disadvantaged…but they single out a guy who is making money off of hurting LGBT people for accolades? Speaks volumes about their real agenda.
it doesn’t matter that he’s still “tempted” by same sex activity. As long as he hates that part of himself, he has a great saved-from-sin story to rely on for accolades from the fundievangelical set.
It works the same way with Bristol Palin talking about abstinence. She has “cred” because she can say she “fell” and has since been saved. That’s actually a more appealing story to many than just being perfect the whole time.
What I haven’t been able to get a fundie to answer, Emily K, is whether or not said fundie would allow his daughter/sister to marry someone like Alan Chambers, someone who still fights his attractions to men on a daily basis.
If I were straight, I would want more for my daughter; I would want her to marry a man who would love her whole-heartedly, not a man that she is always going to be wondering about…
I’m sorry, but even if I were so guilt-ridden that I didn’t want to be gay anymore, and tried to behave heterosexually (while still having emotional attractions to men), I still wouldn’t want to be in a relationship with a woman. I think highly enough of women that I wouldn’t want to put my future wife through that kind of grief in a marriage, no matter HOW understanding she might be.
There are certainly many good Christians who are gay. I am but one of millions. However, celebrating the idea that fraud and greed are Christian “values” shows how far some of the “churches” and “religious groups” in America have fallen.
I had to look twice, but yup, the website listed in the upper corner of the screen-shot is: onkneesforjesus.blogspot.com.
Oh. My. God!!!!!