It’s abuse. It’s child abuse. PLEASE SIGN AND REBLOG. MAKE THIS VIRAL!!
Please be the Church! Please be the Body of Christ and ACT.
WE NEED 10000 Signatures!!
-Ian
For victims recovering from “ex gay” trauma: http://www.beyondexgay.com/
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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Also: http://www.beyondexgay.com/article/harmstories
- Ian
Please, give us your coming-out stories, coming-to-Christ stories, tales of hardship and overcoming those hardships, stories forgiveness, or anything you continue a struggle with(loss/death, suffering for Christ, suffering because of your orientation, addiction, sickness). You will NEVER be judged by us, you don’t have to accept our advice or review. If you just need to vent, VENT. If you need someone to listen, we can be ears. If you need counsel, we will give what we can!
Thanks for sharing with us!
-Ian
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Reblogging because you know, someone out there could use one of these.
While it is important to extend grace, love, and compassion to Conservatives who believe that our/our friends’[for Hetero. allies] feelings are an abomination, that same humility must coincide with firmness! Because remember, if their stance is not against just you. Rather against every man, woman, and child that feels romantically for the same sex (or are transgender/both)!
Matthew 18:15-20 sums up how to handle the matter perfectly:
“If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
In this way, defend those hurt by Bible-Abuse.
You don’t understand how much I love you and appreciate your support. You truly cannot comprehend how much I actually love you.
Gay, Straight, Queer, white, black, off-white beige: I love you. I try to, and do , as Christ does (given my, sadly, limited ability).
I do not post what I do in order to self-vindicate my sexuality, or to feel good about myself, or crusade fer’ JeSuuuusS. No. No I don’t.
I post and support LGBTQ Christians because of the Holy Spirit induced urge to vomit my entire phsycal being when I think of the pale, lifeless faces of young boys who couldn’t live with themselves any longer because of their God-given sexuality being an “an abomination”/”unnatural”/”an affront to God”. To see the bloody and scarred faces of a woman in South Africa who was raped for “corrective” purposes. To have your head ring with the envisioned or imagined, yet almost real SHRIEKS and SCREAMS of men bound together to a pole being cooked alive “in the name of Christ” from almost 1,500 years ago.
Those nightmares, those crimes are not of Christ. It is not Love, it is not God.
They are atrocities, they were begun by the lies of evil, ignorant, corrupt men(while, yes, Christ extends His love to them as He did to Saul/St. Paul) in an attempt to consolidate their power and justify their own predjudices using the veil of “Christianity”. The hurt and gut-wrenching pain they commited then, proliferates still today.
To me, I would be criminal to let it go unaddressed. I feel that it’s every Christian’s duty to defend the oppressed and to love them. Especially, if circumstances had been less kind, you’d be just as miserable.
Yes I am Gay. Yes I am Christian. Yes I love you. Yes I love Christ.
NO, homosexuality is NOT A SIN.
I feel that it is my job, in this tiny respect, to let you know that, LGBT kids and adults, God loves you. Straight friends, He loves you too.
And if I don’t change a single Conservative’s mind on here, so be it. If no one shares about what they read on here, so be it. Thats Christ’s job to touch hearts, I’m just a simple servant. No more.
And if I DO, please tell that I may know!
But my faith doesn’t hang in the balance for it.
Thanks for reading =)
- Ian
*all info regarding my beliefs can be found in my ‘about me’ section to the left hand side of the screen.
I’m no pastor, and this is no Church service.
But chew on this thought and act on what you’ve found.
YIC,
-Ian =)
(For those of you who may’ve not seen before) My own contribution on the matter!:
http://stilltryinmybest.tumblr.com/post/4092459977/me-vs-ex-gay-via-facebook
Debate between me and another tumbr-ite discussing the Bible and Homosexuality.
Being gay isnt a sin. The act of homosexual sex is a sin. Just because we have been saved by grace and covered in Christs blood, doesnt mean that we should abuse that grace. You can come out of homosexuality. You are using these verses out of context to condone your behavoir. I will be praying for you, as well as the readers of this blog. God loves you, not your behavior.from Anonymous
I am abusing nothing. I am analyizing Scripture in linguistic and in historical context. Please continue to read all my sources and posts before you make an, obviously, uneducated statement which is non-Christian, unbiblical, and completely unscientific. One cannot come out of homosexuality. Mulitiple mental health assosiations have affirmed and reaffirmed that fact since 1973. True that you can be born bisexual, but that is still a flavour of homosexuality with a twist of heterosexuality that varies from person to person based on how they were born!
Yes, yes that is a rebuke which I do in the interest of defending the parts of the Body which have too long suffered from bible-bashing.
“Here I stand. That I can do naught elsewise. God help me. Amen.”- Martin Luther
I pray that God forgives this slander against His Own children whom He so lovingly designed and hung on a cross to die for after being beaten, scourged, spat on, given a crown of thorns, mocked, and forced to trudge along the long, whinding Via Dolorosa to the Hill called Golgotha (The Place of the Skull).
Now, this does not mean I hate you, Anon. This rebuke does not mean I do not forgive this.
It means I will pray to love you as God wills whilst still taking a strong stand for the defence of the mocked, ignored, and broken LGBT Christian.
But remember:
Matthew 7:1&2,”Judge not lest ye be judged. For with what measure you mete, so it shall be measured unto thee.”
YIC
-Ian
Seeing that ‘Bible Abuse’ is the #1 cause of disdain and general emotion trauma for/by “Christianity” within the LGBT Community, I find the need to post a link to that which can go far more into depth than I can here on Tumblr (though I’ve tried).
More links on Christianity and LGBT issues:
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