Can Gays Really Change? A Review of the Jones and Yarhouse Study on Ex-Gays
June 18, 2010
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Is sexual orientation a fixed and immutable trait? Are efforts to help people change harmful?
One of the most contentious issues in the contemporary cultural debate over homosexuality centers on whether sexual orientation is a fixed and immutable trait or whether it can be changed. (more…)
Pro-gay “social justice” arguments are effective because they sound so good. They demand an end to homophobia and insensitivity; who wants to say they are against such goals?
Is homosexuality really fixed and immutable as some argue?
Authored by Joe Dallas
Social justice arguments are effective because they sound so good. They demand an end to homophobia and insensitivity; who wants to say they are against such goals? (more…)
Pro-gay “social justice” arguments are effective because they sound so good. They demand an end to homophobia and insensitivity; who wants to say they are against such goals?
To the biblically ignorant, general gay religious arguments can pass for truth. In the light of Scripture, however, they do not hold up under scrutiny.
Authored by Joe Dallas
A recent poll showed 66 percent (two-thirds) of Americans no longer believe there is such a thing as “absolute truth.” More disturbing, though, was the fact that 53% of those not believing in absolute truth identified themselves as born-again Christians; 75 percent of whom were mainline Protestants. (1) If “absolute truth” no longer exists, even in the minds of half the “born-again” population, it logically follows that doctrine, and the Bible itself, is given less credence. Pollster George Gallup Jr. noticed this in The People’s Religion: American Faith in the 90s. “While religion is highly popular in America,” he states, “it is to a large extent superficial. There is a knowledge gap between American’s stated faith and the lack of the most basic knowledge about that faith.” (2) (more…)
Pro-Gay Revisionist Theology: An Overview
June 18, 2010
Major denominations ordaining homosexuals, priests and clergy presiding over same-sex weddings, sanctuaries invaded by boisterous gay activists, debates over homosexuality ripping congregations apart, who would have guessed we’d ever reach such a point in church history? (more…)
When “is” doesn’t mean “ought.”
First there was Silo, the penguin, at the Central Park Zoo in New York. In 2005, he left his partner, Roy, and took up with a feisty female named Scrappy. (more…)
Answering Newsweek on Same-Sex Marriage and the Bible
June 16, 2010
Magazine claims biblical support for same-sex marriage. Trouble is, its arguments simply don’t hold up under critical examination.
For more than 20 years, Citizen magazine has defended biblical truth about family life from attack by cultural elites — especially those in big media who are eager to redefine marriage and deprive boys and girls of what they need most: a mother and father committed to each other for a lifetime. (more…)
When John Wants to be ‘Jane’
June 16, 2010
This article was adapted from an interview by Tom Hess with Jeff Johnston, research analyst for Focus on the Family, Citizen magazine, April 2009.
A growing number of schools and hospitals seem ready to help children ‘transition’ from one gender to another. How should Christians respond?
How did you become aware of the “transgender” agenda in schools?
I was working and living in Baltimore, and I learned that the local school district used the book Beyond the Binary: A Toolkit for Gender Identity Activism in Schools to train teachers in “diversity.” Gender is changeable from one day to the next, they’re told, and comes in an infinite number of varieties. The goal is to encourage gender confusion, bring it into the mainstream of society and silence those who disagree. (more…)
‘Transgenderism’ and the Deconstruction of Gender
June 16, 2010
God casts His vision for the sexes in the opening pages of Scripture.
As Christians, we know from the creation account in Genesis 1 that God creates by “calling forth” by His spoken word (“Let there be…”). We also learn that His creation and ordering of the world involved a series of “separations.” These separations include heaven and earth, light and dark, day and night, morning and evening, clouds and seas, water and dry land, and sun and moon. Profoundly, the Hebrew concept of “separation” is rooted in the word kadosh, which – while often rendered as “holy” in English – here carries the sense of being “set apart” (separated) unto the Lord. Thus, in this series of separations, we see a consecrated and holy ordering, which at its essence reflects a “setting apart” unto the Creator God of the Universe. (more…)
