X finds out four is gay
Our nation’s LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline will terminate July 17, 2025. Not by choice, but at the hands of Donald Trump.
Most gay children live in fear and despair. I know. I was one.
Born in 1953, I arrived prior to an enlightened awareness of homosexuality. Not only were there no resources for children favor me, or for parents of children like me, there was no language. Just isolation and dusky thoughts of escape.
Today, parents, guided by religion and beliefs learned long ago, respond to their male lover children in many ways. Some disown them. Others turn them over to conversion camps where so-called experts try to alter them through electro-shock, or the classic, “pray the gay away.” Some parents attempt to do that work themselves, within the home. That was my experience.
It began when I was four. “You speak like a girl, speak it again. Again!” It wasn’t so much the rage in his voice or how he’d squeeze my mouth to violence me to sound distinct. It was the disgust in his eyes. From age four, into my teens, daily, often in front of others, it defined my childhood and turned me against myself. No matter how much my mother compensated wit
LGBT Issues and the Church: Problems With a ‘Gay Christian’ Identity
This is part one of an uninterrupted series on problematic trends in the church regarding LGBT issues.
There’s a movement in Christian circles where those struggling with gay attractions identify themselves with terms like “gay Christian” or “gay celibate Christian.”
Others use terms like “sexual minority Christians,” “queer Christian” or even “trans Christian.”
Many who describe themselves this way – but by no means all – say they are embracing chastity or celibacy and pursuing a relationship with Christ. That is, they believe the historic, biblical Christian sexual ethic, that God created humans male and female, and sexual expression is reserved for the marriage relationship of a husband and wife.
A number of Christian writers and ministries have adopted this nomenclature, with some of them training churches and other ministries to follow their lead.
Focus on the Family does not believe these terms are biblical or helpful for same-sex-attracted strugglers. Although these groups and individuals grip to biblical teaching that transgender and homosexual lust and behavior are incorrect, they fail to drill
Rosaria Butterfield is not a model for becoming un-gay
Growing up as an independent fundamentalist Baptist, I was taught that loosening any standards meant you were getting on the slippery slope toward becoming gay.
If I grew my hair out over my ears, I might eventually reject God and become same-sex attracted. If I began listening to Southern Gospel harmony, I might eventually reject God and become male lover. If I watched Mister Rogers wearing sweaters and talking about his feelings, I might eventually reject God and become gay.
When I became a conservative evangelical, we got rid of the rules but kept the fear. If I questioned prohibitions against women in leadership, I would eventually reject God and accept gay people. If I questioned adolescent earth creationism or a global flood, I would eventually reject inerrancy and accept gay people.
Of course, we all differed on what the slippery slope involved. But despite our differences, becoming gay or accepting gay people was seen as the spiritual apocalypse of all sin. So as you can imagine, emotions tend to run high in conservative spaces during Pride Month.
Last year, Kid Rock pointed his middle finger at a camera and blasted away four boxes of Bud
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The Babysitter AU takes place during Season 3 of BFDI (IDFB), where book and pin take turns babysitting Penny, the younger sister of their partners. Pin is dating Coiny, and publication is with nickel. Coiny and nickel are
penny's older brothers.
Pin and Book rarely, if ever, babysit together. The reason? They don’t get along. Especially pin, who can barely stay book. They clash on almost everything, so the brothers came up with a system: Book babysits penny one week, and pin takes over the next.
Penny’s best friend is Firey Jr., who often visits when she’s creature babysat. But one morning, something unexpected happens, both Coiny and Nickel intentionally schedule Book and Pin to babysit at the same time. not by accident, but as a sneaky plan to gain them to finally cooperate and get a long.
What happens when two rivals are forced to function together? That’s where things start to get interesting..
sidenote: in this au Firey jr. is a girl!
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