There has been an article floating around on Facebook by Cathleen Falsani, A Gay Awakening for the Church? The article isn’t anything new but a collection and restatement of things said before by others, concisely written in a short blog post. In my circle it got a lot of positive feedback including a lot from professing evangelical believers.  I am not going to sugar coat what I think about it: the content of the blog post is a beast that Christians should run, not walk, away from. This is why.

Mrs. Falsani starts out with some of her personal background. Short version: She knows people that are gay and she knows people that are Christian. And she has some dear friends who are both gay and Christian. (Note: I don’t know how she uses the terms, but unless I am quoting someone, I’ll use the word homosexual to refer to someone with same-sex desires, and use gay to refer to someone that embraces—proudly—those desires as part of their identity… I suppose this is what Falsani means when she uses openly gay.) Regarding having friends that were both gay and Christian, Falsani says, Continue Reading…