Sam and frodo gay brokeback mountain12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Not surprisingly perhaps from teenagers! But what is surprising is the tolerant attitude of Christian parents-better to ensure that they are not gay by allowing them to taste the fruits of heterosexual sex (with condoms, of course-the fear of HIV has brought this issue to the surface). But ask any youth minister what teenagers regard as acceptable and you will get a very different response. Illegitimate children are to be avoided and the best way to ensure this is to limit sex to the marriage bed. If gay sex is a way of expressing love in physical terms why should sex be limited to marriage? One of the answers to this used to be the possibility of pregnancy. What are some of the consequences of the acceptance of same-sex relationships in our culture? There are many.įirst, we are facing the obliteration of acceptable norms of social and sexual behavior. Mencken's quip that Puritanism is the fear that someone, somewhere may be happy and Mohler was obviously a Puritan-yet, another word that has suffered the Hollywood make-over! Hannibal Lector said (of a census taker that called at his house), "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti," he looked exquisitely happy! King seemed to personify H. Thus Al Mohler was constantly badgered by Larry King on a recent interview on CNN by the question, "Why don't you want people to be happy?" irrespective of the fact that when Dr. And in successfully accommodating this word in this way, those who now regard homosexuality as morally unacceptable are by default opposed to happiness. 'Gay' in our time, invariably means a sexual relationship between individuals of the same gender. Maintaining clarion calls to the objective nature of truth in verbal communication from God has been the conservative evangelical response: God has spoken in words that carry definite and precise meaning-witness the fact that Jesus, God incarnate, spoke in Aramaic and signaled the objective authority of the words of the Hebrew Old Testament.īut words do change their meaning over time according to social conventions requiring careful analysis of the context in which these words were employed. Applied to the language of Scripture, this philosophy of reductionism has proved fatal to any assertion of biblical inerrancy. have all asserted one way or another, is a social phenomenon-an evolutionary movement from grunts and groans to expressions of social convention but with no objective meaning. Take the very word itself, 'Gay.' It used to mean, 'Given to cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement, merry,' but try saying, "I'm feeling gay" and see the response! Language, as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Derrida, et. Gayness is part of a wider agenda of tolerance. Westminster John Knox Press, back in 1978 (!), published Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Bible Times by Thomas Marland Horner as just such an attempt, and the more recent (2002) work by ex-Bob Jones graduate, Jeff Miner, pastor of Jesus Metropolitan Community Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, The Children are Free: Re-examining the Biblical Evidence on Same-sex Relationships (published by Jesus Metropolitan Community Church) continues this trend. Our culture is unable to understand the bonds of friendship between David and Jonathan without suggesting a sub-text of homosexuality. Frodo, my dear" without raising the suspicion of a gay theme. Unthinkable, then, that Tolkien could write today of Sam Gamgee cradling Frodo's head in a cell in Mordor and saying, "Frodo! Mr. We are reaching a point where almost no communication is free from sexual connotation of some kind. Is it possible for men to hug other men, or young boys without the suspicion of being gay? It is a serious, if offensive question, raised by the "pansexualist" agenda foisted upon the culture by Hollywood. ![]()
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