Category Archives: Letters

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A Letter from Joseph

Dear Dad: You were right! Being a husband and a father is a big job. It takes everything you have in you, then 100% more! It’s a good thing too, because our lives got off to a really awkward and harsh start. Man, when she

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An Open Letter to Sean Hannity

If the Left succeeds in gaining and retaining more power, the well-being of future generations will be at greater peril. I fear (our children) will inherit a nation that is less free and less secure than the nation we inherited from the last generation. It

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Love in Action Co-Founder: ‘My Ministry Shatters Lives’

Author Wayne Besen has released an explosive letter by Love In Action’s co-founder and former ex-gay John Evans, which rebukes gay conversion groups saying that they “shattered lives.” The group he started has recently made headlines because it runs a boot camp for gay teens

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A Letter to Louise, Part 4

Read the rest of the series (3) Nothing should ever be taken out of its whole context. Dr. Dana says, “No single sentence or verse should ever be interpreted independent of its logical connections. Interpretation should deal with whole sections, each section being considered from

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A Letter to Louise, Part 3

Read the rest of the series Nine. Full acceptance by society, including the blessings and legality of marriage should be extended to gays and lesbians in the same way it is extended to others. Louise, if it is moral as well as psychologically needful —

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A Letter to Louise, Part 2

Read the rest of the series In the summer of 1998 fundamentalist Christian organizations, fearful of the consideration by some states of recognizing same-gender marriage, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads in major newspapers telling the nation that gays and lesbians are “sick”

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A Letter to Louise: References

Read the rest of the series 1-1 Helmut Thielicke, The Ethics of Sex, 283-4 1-2 APA News Release No. 98-56, December 14, 1998 1-3 Quoted by Ellen Herman, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Homosexuality, 33 2-1 Jeffrey S. Siker, “Homosexual Christians, the Bible and Gentile Inclusion: Confessions

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A Letter to Louise, Part 5

Read the rest of the series THE NEW TESTAMENT In the New Testament there are three passages to consider. Romans 1:21, 26, 27 Revised Standard Version 21 for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him… 26