Word On Wednesday: Christianity & Homosexuality

It's getting late in the day and I had committed to post something, anything, on certain days and while it is late in the day I am still going to post something even if Word On Wednesday is read on Thursday :)

I just read this article... here are a few quotes from the article and my response...  and if you wish to read the article here's the link ------->  Christianity and Homosexuality.  

Here's a quote from the article below

The homosexuals and lesbians have gained considerable political and social momentum in America.  They have "come out" as the term goes, left their closets, and are knocking on the doors of your homes.  Through TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines, they are preaching their doctrine of tolerance, equality, justice, and love.  They do not want to be perceived as abnormal or dangerous.  They want acceptance and they want you to welcome them with open, loving arms, approving of what they do....

The new gay moral revolution at times really neglects the individual person.  If you have spent any time in the gay community or even the relatively short time as I have experienced you would know that there is a lot of diversity even within the LGBTQ Community.  We all have different stories and not every story has an individual with heart breaking abuse and trauma in their background and it has to be said that not every story is the same and not every LGBTQ identified person is so much into politics that they're on your doorstep demanding for you to approve of everything they do and yet there are some who's definition of acceptance of the LGBTQ identified individual is to affirm their lifestyle and affirm who they sleep with and that just naturally overflows into the political spectrum and our schools.  Personally speaking, the school board shouldn't have the right to interfere with a parents responsibility of teaching their child moral and ethical views on sexuality.

In this heated political and cultural war gay affirming churches and gay activists within the church have done their best to redefine love, truth, and tolerance to the point of even developing a language and ways of communicating that only affirm what's being redefined as opposed to actually going back to the scripture and having an honest dialogue and conversation over what scripture really teaches but there are certain blockages to communication that really need to be brought back into the present dialogue.  

Where do you find your identity? 

A large part of gay activism isn't just gaining acceptance but it's the work of turning the water muddy and less clearer.  When certain things are less understand it is that much easier to give room to deception and so I can see why many would on one hand base their identity in who they are in the sexual being vs who they are in Christ... but that would leave room to suggest that who they are in Christ might not leave room for homosexuality as a means for identity but when people want they're gay identity affirmed anything spoken against homosexuality is seen as a personal insult against the individual.  The individual struggling with same sex attraction or accepting of their same sex attraction may very well have to lay down their sexual identity when others point to the sin of homosexuality.  Our behavior is not what defines us it's rather just what we do. Who defines us is our God and Savior Jesus Christ and everything else is just secondary.

Anyways, I leave you with this thought... 
I'm not a gay christian.  I am a Christian who experiences same sex attraction and my convictions of what I do in light of who I find myself attracted to may very well be different from the one who may identify themselves as a gay christian.  I am not an ex-gay christian because who I am will never be determined by what I did and again I am a Christian who experiences same sex attraction and have chosen to not act on these feelings and emotions.  And even if same sex attraction has become a thing of the past and has become ancient history the label ex-gay could be something I could claim it still would never be something other than a label and identity contrary to who I am in Christ, a new creation, a woman created in the Image of God.