Posted on 11/27/2014 12:19:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
Rob and Linda Robertson did what they believed was expected of them as good Christians.
When their 12-year-old son Ryan said he was gay, they told him they loved him, but he had to change. He entered reparative therapy, met regularly with his pastor and immersed himself in Bible study and his church youth group. After six years, nothing changed. A despondent Ryan cut off from his parents and his faith, started taking drugs and in 2009, died of an overdose.
Now we realize we were so wrongly taught, said Rob Robertson, a firefighter for more than 30 years who lives in Redmond, Washington. Its a horrible, horrible mistake the church has made.
The tragedy could have easily driven the Robertsons from the church. But instead of breaking with evangelicalismas many parents in similar circumstances have donethe couple is taking a different approach, and theyre inspiring other Christians with gay children to do the same. They are staying in the church and, in protesting what they see as the demonization of their sons and daughters, presenting a new challenge to Christian leaders trying to hold off growing acceptance of same-sex relationships.
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Thoughtful post. This situation called for Charity. Instead, it sounds like the parents called for confrontation. A mixed up kid needs to be redirected in a positive way. This behavior would have gone to extinction most likely. Now he’s in a battle of wills.
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane showed us the way. Not my will be done...
There’s a big difference between a disciple and a believer’s child.
I don’t believe in shunning kids who don’t believe the same as their parents. There are a lot more sins, and I’m guilty of a few myself.
IDK,but I wasn’t girl crazy when I was 12, I didn’t find the concept of the behavior appealing either when I found out about it in the same year. The same gender behavior grossed me out more than well the traditional way.
I agree you can’t shun your child.
Exactly correct and I think I am going to borrow this for a while as my new tagline.
Here is the big difference: The Holy Spirit guides the Catholic Church in all truth, liberals guide all the protestant churches, or will within the next 50 years.
Here is the big difference: The Holy Spirit guides the Catholic Church in all truth, liberals guide all the protestant churches, or will within the next 50 years.
Here’s my input. Whichever one sticks to the right way, is the true church of Christ. It all depends on who is willing to take the mockery, the defectors,etc. The structure of the other smaller churched makes them likely to cave sooner,
Take a look at Revelations chapter Chapter 2 and 3 to see what Jesus thinks about your Holy Roman Catholic Church. The news is not good and I really doubt you will even go look.
But if you do read it you will think the message is for some one else, not you. Let me clue you in. THERE AINT NO ONE ELSE, THAT IS YOU AND ME.
Things are so BAD in the church (YOUR CHURCH AND MINE) that Jesus is threatening to leave UNLESS...............
ROFLOL... Funny stuff.
Take a look at Revelations chapter Chapter 2 and 3 to see what Jesus thinks about your Holy Roman Catholic Church. The news is not good and I really doubt you will even go look.
But if you do read it you will think the message is for some one else, not you. Let me clue you in. THERE AINT NO ONE ELSE, THAT IS YOU AND ME.
Things are so BAD in the church (YOUR CHURCH AND MINE) that Jesus is threatening to leave UNLESS...............
Spoiler alert God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Catholic Church win in the end.
Or, their son could have died an agonizing death from AIDS or from a hammer to his skull by a sodomite “lover.”
What abject idiots.
And they should be expelled from their evangelical church as non-believers.
The welcoming-at-all-costs trend is deadly.
Did you Reach Revelations Chapter 2 and 3.
Tell me what it says to you.
Many boys at 12 think girls have cooties. That doesn’t make them gay, right?!!!!
That would be a good place to start.
That’s a good thing. It makes it unlikely that the guy has a porn problem, or some kind of sex problem. The young have far from the easiest time covering it up.
Definitely not well thought out. Living single is really underrated.
I agree.
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