Comments on: Growing Up Gay Attending Coastline Bible Church, Day I of IV http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: William http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-51012 William Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:40:54 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-51012 Sorry. I meant Daniel, not Timothy. My apologies. Sorry. I meant Daniel, not Timothy. My apologies.

]]> By: William http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-51011 William Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:39:42 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-51011 Thank you for the video, Timothy. I, too, look forward to the next ones. What amazes me is that these fundamentalist Evangelicals still seem to imagine that banging on like that will prevent people from growing up gay. It has no effect whatever, of course - except to make it more difficult for those who do realise that they're gay to come to terms with their natural sexuality. Why is it that they still haven't got the message, I wonder? Thank you for the video, Timothy. I, too, look forward to the next ones.

What amazes me is that these fundamentalist Evangelicals still seem to imagine that banging on like that will prevent people from growing up gay. It has no effect whatever, of course – except to make it more difficult for those who do realise that they’re gay to come to terms with their natural sexuality. Why is it that they still haven’t got the message, I wonder?

]]> By: Regan DuCasse http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-51006 Regan DuCasse Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:35:11 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-51006 Homosexuality doesn't exist, but an intangible like God or whatever, DOES? I don't want to disparage a person's faith. But that sort of thinking doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I believe and hope there is a God, or two or so. It's the middle men of arrogant intent who get between a person's ability to have that personal and deeply abiding relationship with God that's a serious and dangerous problem. Homosexuality doesn’t exist, but an intangible like God or whatever, DOES?

I don’t want to disparage a person’s faith. But that sort of thinking doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

I believe and hope there is a God, or two or so.
It’s the middle men of arrogant intent who get between a person’s ability to have that personal and deeply abiding relationship with God that’s a serious and dangerous problem.

]]> By: Joe Allen Doty http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-51003 Joe Allen Doty Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:57:16 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-51003 Many of these churches where they teach homosexuality is a sin really don't believe that sexual orientation really exists. And there are some who think that a guy is not homosexual when he isn't doing the sex act with another guy. Using the same logic, a married and Christian heterosexual man is not really heterosexual except when he is having sexual intercourse with his wife. Many of these churches where they teach homosexuality is a sin really don’t believe that sexual orientation really exists.

And there are some who think that a guy is not homosexual when he isn’t doing the sex act with another guy. Using the same logic, a married and Christian heterosexual man is not really heterosexual except when he is having sexual intercourse with his wife.

]]> By: R Holmes http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-51000 R Holmes Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:21:39 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-51000 P.S. At our youth group, some guy gave the talk on what Christians are allowed to do before marriage. I'm sure he thought he was being witty when he said "don't touch what you haven't got". I remember feeling both amused about the implications for me as a gay person, and depressed that it didn't even enter his head that there might be gay people in the group. P.S. At our youth group, some guy gave the talk on what Christians are allowed to do before marriage. I’m sure he thought he was being witty when he said “don’t touch what you haven’t got”. I remember feeling both amused about the implications for me as a gay person, and depressed that it didn’t even enter his head that there might be gay people in the group.

]]> By: R Holmes http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-50999 R Holmes Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:16:46 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-50999 Thanks for this. I didn't attend an official ex-gay programme but yes, the church taught me that homosexual love was perverted, and christians I knew tried to "cast the spirit of homosexuality out" of me. All in all, not great for the self-esteem. Thanks for this. I didn’t attend an official ex-gay programme but yes, the church taught me that homosexual love was perverted, and christians I knew tried to “cast the spirit of homosexuality out” of me.

All in all, not great for the self-esteem.

]]> By: Tom http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/10/06/15200/comment-page-1#comment-50997 Tom Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:28:17 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=15200#comment-50997 This is a great video - I look forward to the series continuing this week. This is a great video – I look forward to the series continuing this week.

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