Stereotypes About GLBT Spirituality Are Wrong
August 16, 2009 by Gay Agenda News Team
That’s the conclusion George Barna, one of the most prominent religion pollsters, came to after a recent survey of 9,000 gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans. From the blog “Politics Daily:”
As America’s leading Christian denominations are once again feuding and splitting over whether they should allow gays and lesbians to marry, or ordain them as clergy, is it a miracle there are any gay Christians? Given Christianity’s history of exclusion and often outright homophobia, and the current bloodletting over their role, why do homosexuals bother staying, not to mention believing?
They do both in numbers that might surprise you: A new survey of 9,000 gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans from George Barna, a well-known evangelical pollster, showed that 70 percent of gay adults describe themselves as Christian and 60 percent say their faith is “very important” in their lives. Granted, those figures are lower than the population as a whole, which register 85 and 70 percent on those rankings, respectively. But Barna, himself a Bible-believing, born-again Christian, points out that the numbers demonstrate that “popular stereotypes about the spiritual life of gays and lesbians are simply wrong.”
I believe what many people do not realize is the reason I am Christian has nothing to do with being accepted by any church or any person or organization but it has everything to do with what is important to me and what i believe. I was raised in a conservative Christian church that condemned homosexuality and for years I believed that there was no hope for me. By the grace of God He has led me to a place in my life that affirms His love for me as I am and I have now come to believe that I am gay not by choice as so many of the right insist nor am I gay because of my rebellion to God but I am gay because that is the way God made me. We are all of God’s children but we are all not the same. I am a Christian because God first loved me as I am and I love God and want to please Him as best I can. God wants all of us to change many things about ourselves in order to be Holy as He is but our sexual orientation is not and never has been or will be one of them.