How Christians arguing against homosexuality sound to me now

Last updated on: December 14, 2016 at 8:01 am by John Shore

How Christians arguing against homosexuality sound to me now 2016-12-14T08:01:20-08:00 John Shore

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In the eight years I’ve been fighting against the Christian condemnation of homosexuality, I’ve received approximately fourteen trillion letters from Christians seeking to enlighten me as to the sinful nature of homosexuality. I weekly receive at least five such emails via the Not All Like That (NALT) Christians Project website alone—from which I recently received this representative jewel, which I present verbatim:

God will not be mocked, sin is sin, and God tolerates No sin,,, but don’t u dare think that he accepts homosexual acts of anykind but hay don’t take my word since u twist God’s Holy Word, u will twist anything,,, repent or he’ll is ur home, but I think ur to arrogant to believe that, I don’t knw if I should weep or cry for All of u, but I will say , and this is I’m sure unloving,, u just so wilful and STUPID

I very rarely respond to such letters, and until now have never published one. I always just … scan, can, and ban ’em, basically.

Something about this letter, though, stuck with me.

After thinking on it a bit, I realized why. It’s because it so perfectly captures how every argument put forth by a Christian against homosexuality now sounds to me. Whether it’s coming from Al Mohler , Bob Jones University, Tony Perkins or yet another poseur the Christian right is invested in trying to pass off as an intellectual (here’s looking at you, Denny Burk, Rob Gagnon, Owen Strachan, Michael Brown, ad nauseam), any Christian argument against same-sex relationships now sounds to me like the sad, ignorant rant above.

Because what such Christians have to say about homosexuality is never about caring. It’s never about the truth. It’s never about love. It’s never about reason. It’s never about justice. It’s never about integrity. It’s never about the Holy Spirit. It’s never about adherence to Scripture.

It’s never about anything but fear, anger, pig-headedness, and the greed for power.

And in the end, now, to me, it always sounds the same. It always sounds like … well, Cartman throwing one of his tantrums.

Except that Cartman is funny. And as far as I know he’s never been the driving force behind anyone committing suicide.

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