I love gay people
Have you ever read The Caucasian Chalk Circle? Don’t. It’s really boring. A leaden, joyless, ferociously unsubtle play about communism that I was forced to read when I was 15. It’s low on laughs, to say the least. But it was a part of my drama class, and I enjoyed acting, so I tried to get on board with it. I read it in advance. And, as the class started, I asked the teacher if I could play one of the farmers in it.
There was a pause. I could see an notion forming in her brain. Here – she reflection – here’s a teachable moment. She gathered the entire class into a circle, with me and her at its centre. And she demonstrated to the room why I could never play a farmer.
Farmers, she explained, walk in a certain way: shoulders forward, slouching posture, heavy stride (looking back, I wonder if she’d only ever seen farmers with club feet). Next, she did my walk. Pelvis out, shoulders back, hips swishing from side to side. I believe she even threw in a limp wrist for good measure. Sadly, she concluded, the way I walked was too “poetic”, and I’d never make a convincing farmer. We all knew she meant: I have a gay walk.
Aside from the glaring question that this
Should a Christian own gay friends?
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In considering whether a Christian should have homosexual friends, we require to ask ourselves whether Jesus would have gay friends. The New Testament nowhere identifies any specific individuals as homosexuals. So, there are no records of Jesus interacting with a lgbtq+. We know from the gospels, however, that Jesus loved everyone He encountered. He did not consider one community of people less deserving of the gospel than any other. In reality, He went out of His way to deliver a demon-possessed man (Mark 5:1–20) and fetch hope to an immoral woman from a despised ethnic background (John 4). He healed lepers (Luke 17:10–19), pardoned an adulteress (John 8:1–11), and ate with tax collectors (Mark 2:16)—all of whom were considered unfit for the company of righteous people. We can assume Jesus would have spent day with homosexuals as well.
Homosexuality was a sin in Jesus’ day, and it is a sin now. God’s standards of human sexuality have not changed. However, Jesus came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10). We learn from the gentle way He dealt with sinful people that He would possess offered homosexuals the same compa
How to Be Cheerful as a Male lover Man
I’m an consultation columnist for the Advocate.com. Here’s my answer to the following question, sent by a reader.
Dear Adam,
I have a great boyfriend, engaging job, cute canine, and enough cash to buy most things I desire. This is supposed to be same-sex attracted heaven. And yet, I’m not joyful. I often undergo like “is this all there is?” Why can’t I just appreciate all the good I have?
Signed,
Disappointed in Denver
Dear Disappointed in Denver,
You’re not alone with these feelings. In fact, they are pretty common. But we rarely chat about it. If we do, we fear we’ll sound spoiled.
There’s a lot of research entity done on happiness these days.
We ponder what will create us most cheerful is a superb job, a faithful boyfriend or girlfriend, and a gorgeous apartment.
However, the analyze makes it obvious that the strongest source of happiness is the feeling of being linked and part of a larger whole.
That sounds old-fashioned. Fancy we should all be in church on Sundays. And the majority of LGBTQ people missing interest in religion a long period ago, especially when it became transparent that we weren’t welcome in most churches.
And yet, the feeling of “is this all there is?” pers
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