So many are so quick to judge her. There are two sides to every story.
I believe that God places a person in such a situation for a reason. Surely God could have chosen another person to be the one to stop the gunman if He so willed it, but for some reason she was the one chosen to do it.
For what she did in stopping that gunman who was armed with an AR-15 rifle when she herself was armed with a 9mm pistol from killing a lot more people, Jeanne Assam will always be one of my heros.
She is and remains one of my inspirations for going into law enforcement myself. Straight or Lesbian, it matters not to me.
For what it's worth, I did a Google seach for Jeanne Assam and found her web site here:
And down at the bottom is a link to her blog here:
http://jeanneassam.wordpress.com/
Her latest blog post deals with this latest news telling her version of the story in her own words.
My post had NOTHING to do with this story...I have no interest in it...no pings, please.
But it does to the Body of Christ. There is no way to claim being a Christian and then announcing that you are going to embrace and celebrate your sin.
Is the New Life Church required to accept someone who is openly and aggressively advocating sin?
Straight or Lesbian, it matters not to me.””
Correction: The words are normal, not straight as defined by homosexuals, for a sexually dimorphic species and homosexual to describe the mentally deranged condition. Would it matter to you if they were pederastic, a condition ingrained in the male homosexual lifestyle? The mentally deranged have no business in law enforcement. Stop buying the marketing of deviance; this isn’t hollywood.
Yes, she acted heroically and I admire her for that. But that is an Earthly treasure and she can’t take it with her. Some of us pray for so much more for her.
A few notes.
First, it looks like I was right to caution folks about the role of Gazette columnist Barry Noreen in this story.
Second, even if we account for the certainty that Ms. Assam is putting the best possible face on her side of the story, it seems quite clear that something really did happen at New Life, related to her role at the church and her homosexuality. I believe her claim that she was deeply hurt by the episode.
And finally, if we believe that even some of Assam's story is true, Pastor Boyd's quoted response looks less than forthright. (Remembering again that Mr. Noreen may not have provided full context, either in his questions to Boyd, or in his depiction of Boyd's response.)
Here is an interesting paragraph in her own words:
I shared with the audience at this private event that I, too, had been hurt by the leadership at my church, but I did not go into any detail other than letting them know it was made very clear to me, and believe me it was, that I was no longer wanted or needed at New Life after they found out I am gay.She went to a group. She publicly said her leadership hurt her, and that they made it "very clear to me", that she was not wanted by the church.
Then, she blames the reporter for making this public, because she thinks THAT is what makes this a story. She was apparently FINE with trashing her church and it's leadership in private, but is upset that someone took her public words at a "private" event and published them for the rest of us to see.
Now, where in HER Bible is she told that it is OK to accuse her Christian brethren of behaving badly in front of outsiders, while trying to hide the accusations from them? Rembmer, this isn't a spur of the moment thing she said, NOR is this just a thoughtless response. Her words at the event were PREPARED by her, and her words in this web site were written by her in her own time.
She seems to have a "Gaius Baltar" view of religion (from Battlestar Galactica, if you understand the reference) -- God made us, and therefore WHATEVER we feel compelled to do, it must be what God wanted, and he would NEVER reject us for just doing what he made us to do.
That of course is bunk. Her church, according to her, believes homosexuality is a sin; she doesn't, and it seems clear from what she wrote that she interprets her church's refusal to accept her sin as acceptable is what drove her away from the church.
Her thinking and reasoning is completely unBiblical. Homosexuality is a sin that is called out several times as an example of sin, as are many other sins.
Unrepentant sinners shall not be part of the kingdom of Heaven. Does she have a hard row to hoe? You bet, don’t envy her a bit. She cannot however attempt to justify her sinful life by skewing God’s word to her benfit.
http://jeanneassam.wordpress.com/Her latest blog post deals with this latest news telling her version of the story in her own words.
Interesting, but really doesn't tell us much more than we already knew. She left New Life, a while ago, and moved away. She feels "hurt", but doesn't say what they did, but (she says) seems to just want to get on with her life. She's one of these that managed to tiptoe through the text, squint just right, and not see her own particular sin as a problem.
Someone (the reporter, of whoever sic-ed the reporter on her) wants to make trouble for New Life Church in particular or Christianity in general.