Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and straw men
Hopefully I’ll have time to parse this article out a bit more, but I’d first point you to Misty Iron’s take here. Irons is a self-described "straight, married with three kids, homeschooling, evangelical Christian of the Reformed variety" who blogs about giving gay people civil marriage rights. Since I was previously a Reformed Christian (and the rest of my family still is), I continue to keep an eye out on what that segment of Christendom thinks and says. The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and their publications, Modern Reformation and the online magaizne Reformation21, influence a great number of reflective believers.
So I am disappointed to see that they cite Jeffrey Satinover and Joseph Nicolosi as psychiatric experts, and present the purportedly monolithic "gay community" as a straw man in the article linked above.
As for me, I’m interested to investigate their portrayal of Michel Foucault. (It’s taken, oddly from a citation in Madsen’s After the Ball, a book that anti-gay writers seem to think all indoctrinated gay persons have a copy of, as a manual). Look for that later.
Image: A Young John Calvin, founder of the Christian Reformation movement in the seventeenth sixteenth(!) century.
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