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Source: The Guardian
Evangelical group rejects claims its BuzzFeed-style videos, aimed at the next generation, preach conversion therapy
Josiah Hesse
Tue 23 Jan 2018 12.00 GMT
The Love Is Love video begins with a teenage girl, Emily, telling the story of coming out to her parents. Love is not necessarily between a man and a woman, she recalls saying. Footage plays of two women, dancing and flirting. If youre truly a Christian, youre on my side ... because God is love.
Between the title and the rainbow flag, you could easily mistake this for a pro-LGBT video from the It Gets Better or Truth Wins Out campaigns. But its actually from Anchored North, an evangelical media company that uses short-form videos to proselytize on behalf of Christianity via social media.
For the first half of the four-minute video, Emilys life is ticking along nicely, including getting engaged to a woman. Then shes invited to a church. I Googled [Bible] verses on homosexuality, she recalls, and it scared me really bad.
By the end, Emily is cuddled up with a handsome young man in gray sweater, as she explains: Its not gay to straight, its lost to saved.
At one point in the video, Emily uses the popular LGBT-affirming phrase born this way, but twists it to say that all humans are born with sin, but there is hope in Jesus.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/23/lgbt-rights-anti-gay-video-love
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I converted to Buddhism 23 years ago due to the behavior and comments from my evangelical siblings,
who told me I'd be burning in Hell
while they party in Heaven.
(Who knew evangelicals party?)
dsmac
(4 posts)The blame for the confusion and suffering of Christian LGBT members falls primarily on the Church. Centuries ago, the Christian Church abandoned its mystical side for intellectualism, rationalism, modernism. That is to say, we decided that we can figure things out for ourselves. We will call You God when we need You. And I think out of cowardice too. And ever since, garbage like this "conversion therapy" is all that the Church is left with. Simply put, Christians today have little clue what they are doing because they don't fully know or understand what they believe. And then people like myself suffer needlessly.
I am gay and I am a practicing Christian. I love my God and my Church, but it is not easy. I try to be patient and forgiving because, man, they really don't know what they are doing.
Rhiannon12866
(204,856 posts)We're glad to have you with us!