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Thought you migth find this interesting — how Evangelicals face the same dissent within the church about policies toward people with Same Sex Attraction. http://news.yahoo.com/evangelicals-gay-children-challenging-church-203000318.html We have Mormons doing the same thing. It’s a long haul. Mormons Building Bridges is just one source. Robert Rees has been chaImpioning this cause for ages – long before it was vogue. Mitch Maynes, the San Francisco Stake, Seattle Stake, Oregon City Bishop. We are not wide spread but there is a growing tide. I also know of a GA, whose name I have agreed not to share, who is actively meeting one on one with families who have children who have gender issues.
SD – Have you read Conversions by Craig Harline? It speaks directly to this conversation. I really liked it. I think you might, too.
mom3 wrote:SD – Have you read Conversions by Craig Harline? It speaks directly to this conversation. I really liked it. I think you might, too.
Haven’t read it. If there is a link or something I would look it over.
Conversions by Craig Harline – http://www.amazon.com/Conversions-Stories-Reformation-Directions-Narrative/dp/0300192444 About the author
This falls in line with what I have been hearing at the Assembly of God church where I have been participating. The pastor is doing a multi-month seminar on Marriage. Last week he started to talk about SSM in the hopes of educating the congregation on how to coherently describe their beliefs against it.
His arguments seem to focus on how it is not Christians who are withholding marriage from same-sex couples but God who has done so.
He suggested that while there are 3-5% of homosexual people in the world – there are at least that many “formerly gay people” or gay people who were once gay and now are not. (I later asked for his source on this)
He also suggested that he would be in favor of civil unions with all the legal rights of marriage but not called a marriage.
I talked to him afterwards just to clarify his position. I said that I can imagine that there are some number of people with homosexual feelings that could also be successful in a hetero relationship. It would seem that there are also some number that are 100% gay and could not be fulfilled in a hetero relationship. I asked if he would advise this 100% gay person to seek out a relationship in the form of the beefed up civil union that Pastor said he would vote for. He told me, “I don’t know.”
This leads me to believe that his premise is based on the idea that gay orientation can be changed. That he would accept cicil unions only to keep gays out of marriage but that for him this would be the lessor of the two evils. I believe his real solution would be conversion to heterosexual relationships.
It is somewhat ironic that some churches can be very progressive in accepting people with ongoing substance abuse and pre-marital sexual activities and then take a hard position against gay marriage/relationships and then pat themselves on the back for taking a bold stand for God. I suppose with heterosexual couples living together there is hope that they will eventually get married. With addicts there is hope of recovery. What can they do with gays?
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