I took this week off from my church to attend another congregation in town last night, so I slept in this morning.  I was IMed by an acquaintance of mine who asked me to pray for him because he was in love with Jesus and not with the church and that he felt like if he loved Jesus enough, he’d stop walking away (I’m going to assume he meant “sinning,” which seems a safe bet given that he’s an evangelical).

There are several underlying assumptions in the preceeding statements, most of which are accepted as truth by evangelicals and which are completely unbiblical and are damaging to many, especially those who are attracted to the same gender (which, by the way, I’ll refer to as “gay” here, not caring to get into a battle over semantics). Continue reading →

I am a man.  I am drawn to men sexually.  And I am an evangelical Christian.   Continue reading →