If I had gay children: 4 Promises from a Christian Parent"
Rev. John Pavlovitz
has struck a nerve amongst the Christian Right establishment: a Christian
minister who would unconditionally accept homosexuality in his children could
not possibly be Christian, could he? No "pray away the gay", no
disowning, not a shred of righteous arrogance in his parenting strategy. His
theology is so far from that of Kelly's mother as to be a different religion
altogether. Then again, he's a Methodist and not a Southern Baptist.
Here are his 4 Promises:
1) If I have gay children, you'll all know it.
My children won't be our family's best kept secret.
2) If I have gay children, I'll pray for them.
I won't pray for them to be made "normal". I've lived long enough to know that
if my children are gay, that IS their normal.
3) If I have gay children, I'll love them.
I don't mean some token, distant, tolerant love that stays at a safe arm's
length. It will be an extravagant, open-hearted, unapologetic, lavish,
embarrassing-them-in-the-school cafeteria, kind of love.
4) If I have gay children, most likely; I have gay children.
If my kids are going to be gay, well they pretty much already are.
God has already created them and wired them, and placed the seed of who they
are within them. Psalm 139 says that He, "stitched them together in their
mother's womb". The incredibly intricate stuff that makes them uniquely them;
once-in-History souls, has already been uploaded into their very cells.
His blog post is not only worth reading because of these points, but because of the extensive pro/con comments (some encouraging, some righteously hateful) it engendered.
October 7, is the 16th anniversary of the discovery of Matthew Shepard. One of the parents in this article is mired in a belief and an attitude that is still taking time to eradicate, while the other parent is forging ahead to a new, loving world. Matthew would be so proud of him. We should all be so very, very proud of him.
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