- Wed, Mar 06, 2013
- Christian Life
What do you think about having a homosexual be part of a church leadership team?
Question from a reader:
What do you think about having a homosexual be part of a church leadership team?
What do you think about having a homosexual be part of a church leadership team?
Note from Randy:
A good friend of mine, a very godly young woman, asked my feedback regarding a draft of a letter she wrote. It was written to homosexuals, and included an apology for the hateful attitudes of some evangelical Christians. Her heart was right and her words were good. Her letter is hers to publish if she wants to, so I am not printing it or quoting from it here. But it’s possible that my response to her letter could be helpful to some believers. Here it is:
My sister, who is a lesbian, invited me to her wedding. I have been the “black sheep” of the family because I am a Christian. We want to show grace and love but we also stand firm in not attending. We don’t know how to decline in a way they won’t hate us and exclude us from the family. How do we decline lovingly?
The culture will have to be retaken street by street, block by block, house by house.
In a special section of New Republic magazine. Andrew Sullivan and other gay writers called for an abandonment of the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights approach. Sullivan faulted the civil-rights strategy because it is based on two faulty assumptions: “that sexuality is equivalent to race in terms of discrimination, and that full equality of homosexuals can be accomplished by designating gay people as victims.”
Sullivan, the gay, white male, is as quick to point out the differences between race and sexual orientation as is James, the straight, black female. “Unlike blacks three decades ago,” writes Sullivan, “gay men and ...
In my book Christians in the Wake of the Sexual Revolution, published in 1985, I have a chapter entitled “The Homosexual Movement.” Here’s just a partial portrait of the homosexual community:
In gay baths men meet and copulate with total strangers and often have sex with multiple partners. Government official Dan Bradley described his first visit to a gay bath: “I must have had sex with ten different guys that first night. I was like a kid in a candy store.” The baths allow sexual relations in front of others or in private cubicles, often without even the exchange ...