Anne Heche’s mother, Dr. Nancy Heche, is an evangelical speaker who has built a career on talking about how to love gay people while hating their gayness (them). She promises “a message of love, hope and respect for individuals and families dealing with same-sex attraction.” She’s a bit more realistic than many of her peers saying “You and I aren’t going to wipe out homosexuality… We can wipe out the hate and the confusion and the anger.”
You might be thinking that’s a little odd. On one hand she just said she wants love hope and respect, on the other she just said she wanted to wipe out homosexuality while admitting that she can’t. For most people love and respect usually mean that you don’t want to wipe out other people’s cultures and relationships. For example I love and respect vegetarians, I don’t want to wipe them out.
This is how these gay loving evangelicals think of homosexuality:
“homosexuality is sort of like type 2 diabetes: Certain people may be more likely to develop the condition than others. Factors like an abusive parent or childhood teasing can make someone seek out sexual consolation in members of their same sex.”
To these people being LGBTQ will always be a sin, disease or abomination and there is no way around it. Being gay and Christian is a zero sum game because their playbook is pretty clear in what it says about being a homosexual, and it’s not kind. While Jesus didn’t lash out at gays he also didn’t override the old homophobia laws rather he said:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17 NIV)
One of those laws is this one:
“‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” (Leviticus 20:13 NIV)
Being gay isn’t such a good deal with Jesus either as you can see, at best you get left alone on earth waiting for him to send you to hell for loving people. There really isn’t a way around this (rainbow churches I’m looking at you). If you’re queer you might just want to give this whole Jesus thing up. If you can’t, if you really truly believe that up there in the clouds Jesus is looking down at you, go outside, look up, and flip him off.
Tags: evangelical christians, rainbow churches, secular gay fascism
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