I didn't choose homosexuality.
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I didn't choose homosexuality.
Homosexuality like left-handedness is just a natural
variation. (Toward a Quaker View of Sex 26)
I am not unhappy as a gay person.
It's society's fault that I am unhappy as a gay person.
God doesn't want us to suffer.
Change is not possible (Tripp 236-237
as quoted by Johnston 20-21). Any such change involves
either "fraud ... self-deception, diagnostic error and
confusion, placebo effects, [or] psychopathological denial."
(Blair [1977] 26 as quoted by Johnston 30)
Change is possible but it's not desirable.
You oppress us. Gay teens commit suicide because of your
loveless judgementalism. (Lazarus
Project) The "inquisitional" hatred of an Anita Bryant
(Johnston x) or a Jerry
Falwell (White) poisons both church
and society. They are in Jesus' terms `dogs,' "barking their
gospel of theocratic fascism and social intolerance."
(Johnston 62)
Be careful who you call an idolater. Many a 15-year old
boy with homosexual feelings grew up in a loving home, in an
Evangelical church, and has loved the Lord since he prayed
with his mother at bedtime at age 4 to come to Christ. There
is no history of abuse or abandonment, no emotional distance
from the father, and no close binding mother. What love do
you offer him? (cf. Johnston 104)
You have internalized your homophobia. Your self-hatred is
being projected onto gays.
You have no way of knowing us. We come from a position of
`epistemological privilege' so your arguments do not carry
as much weight as ours do regardless of their content.
Sex is so closely tied to the core of my identity that in
this case I can trust my feelings.
"Being gay is not about sex as such," but about the right
to intimate relationships with whomever I choose and who
chooses me. (Sullivan; White; Lever)
You have not gotten to know us as people, only as targets of hatred.
But I have been in a committed relationship with my gay partner for 18 years.
Troy Perry, founder of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community
Churches, argues that one-night stands are OK for Christians:
I believe that there can be loving experiences, even in a one-night stand. I truly believe that two individuals can meet and share their complete beings with each other, totally sexually too, and never see each other again: and remember it as a beautiful, loving situation. (Johnston 198; citing Chin)
Fundamentalists make an idol out of the Bible, and
therefore don't listen for an inner witness from Jesus. (Johnston 118, citing John 10:27 NASV
and Romans 8:16) Charismatics fundamentalists do not follow
the logic of their own presuppositions -- that God has a
word for us today -- when they dismiss the witness of gay
Christians. (119) They come dangerously close to
blaspheming the Holy Spirit when they attribute to Satan the
baptism in the Spirit of gay Charismatic Christians. (120)
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