“Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8:33) To be “justified” by God is one of the many promises given us by God as recorded in Scripture! I want to focus on that word, “justified” in
We must study homophobes rather than Gay people! As I have previously written: “I can certainly see the validity of studies as to why some people love war and others love peace; why some people are sadistic and others are not; why some people take
Over many years, ample evidence has been presented that homophobia that is linked with many clergy’s interpretation of selected Bible verses that has been enmeshed, if not fused, with their views of Christianity and “morality,” is not going to be swayed or altered by appeals
“People of different faiths — or no faith — and those political objectives will seek to use the preacher not only to advance their agendas, but to get him to compromise his, which is primarily sharing a message not of this world. “Secretly recorded conversations
“And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” (Mark 3:25) Particularly in the last several years we have seen the Church increasingly fractured by polarization attendant upon such variables as differences in biblical interpretation, degree of inclusivity
In an article titled “GLAAD criticizes Hilton for anti-gay slurs,” part of it reads as follows: “The openly gay [Perez] Hilton called Black Eyes Peas singer will.i.am a “f****t” after the two reportedly were involved in a heated confrontation….. “The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
As I’ve often written, many clergy within the institutional Church preach and teach the false gospel of legalism, perfectionism, and exclusion and thereby do immeasurable harm to the emotional and spiritual lives of those who allow themselves to be exposed to that kind of toxic
In my opinion, a distinction has to be made between “hedonism” and “Gay,” and much public persona of Gay people, and the commentators on all too many LGBT-oriented websites, seem to be more hedonistic than Gay. Frivolity, indecency, and use of hateful epithets as self-identifiers
One of the cofounders of the antigay Family Research Council, George Rekers may well, himself, be a gay man: Antigay activist George Rekers is indeed gay, according to the male escort he hired for a 10-day trip across Europe. The escort spoke to the Miami
Editor’s note: Joe Jervis made his first post of “Watching the Defectives” in 2005 and began reposting it every June since; here’s an index of them. In his Saturday, June 19th posting of a piece titled “Watching the Defectives” on his blog Joe.My.God, Joe Jervis published