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‘Straight, Christian’ Pretended to be Gay For a Year
The Christian Diarist ^ | October 16, 2012 | JP

Posted on 10/16/2012 7:56:47 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST

I don’t believe Timothy Kurek. He’s the alleged Christian, alleged heterosexual who told ABC News he spent a year “pretending” to be gay.

Why did the 26-year-old Nashville man, a graduate of Liberty University (the so-called evangelical “West Point”) decide to go undercover? Because, he said, he wanted to “walk in the shoes” of a homosexual.

So Kurek went all in.

He “came out” as gay to all his family and friends. He got a job in a gay café. He hung out at a gay bar. He joined a gay softball league. He even got a gay bud of his – “a big, black, burly Teddy bear” is how Kurek described him – to be his “pretend” boyfriend.

So how did it all work out for Kurek?

Well, he said, he “went from being a very conservative Christian to being an ally of the gay community.”

That’s because church people are so intolerant, so judgmental, so unwilling to accept that homosexuality is on a moral par with heterosexuality.

In church, said Kurek, “You learned to be afraid of God” and that “the loving thing to tell my friend that is gay, ‘Hey listen, you are an abomination and you need to repent to go to heaven.’ I absolutely believed in that lock, stock and barrel.”

Well, I don’t know what kind of church Kurek attended. And I don’t know what kind of theology it espoused.

I just know I’ve attended a number of churches around the country with conservative Christian congregations.

None of them taught that Christ followers should be “afraid” of God. And I heard no pastor say that the loving thing to tell any gay friends or family we might have is that they are abominable and going to hell if the don’t straighten up.

What I heard in those conservative Christian churches is that God is love. That He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. That He is not willing that any should perish – including gays – but that all should come to repentance.

Kurek, author of a book, “The Cross in the Closet,” thinks gays have nothing to repent. He thinks it should be perfectly acceptable for man to lie with man, and woman to lie with woman.

Well, God’s Word says otherwise.

And allies of the gay community, like Kurek, the alleged Christian, espouse false doctrine when they tell homosexuals they can live in defiance of that Word without fear of eternal separation from the Almighty.


TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: celebratesin; christian; gays; glbtacbdisney; hedonism; lavendermafia; moralabsolutes; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; sexpositiveagenda; timothykurek; tolerance
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Gays want God to accept them on their terms. But it is they who must come to God on His terms.
1 posted on 10/16/2012 7:56:55 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
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I don’t believe Timothy Kurek. He’s the alleged Christian, alleged heterosexual who told ABC News he spent a year “pretending” to be gay.

 

I don't believe him either. He's not pretending to be gay. He IS gay. By endorsing and encouraging this sick sin, he is just as guilty.

2 posted on 10/16/2012 8:02:08 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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A very good and costly education gone down the toilet.
3 posted on 10/16/2012 8:02:27 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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So now the gays have to worry about people pretending to be gay so they will call for blood tests to prove that someone is gay by the gay gene ?


4 posted on 10/16/2012 8:02:36 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Tim sure went through alot of trouble for this deception. I don't think anyone is fooled.
5 posted on 10/16/2012 8:02:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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A lot of homosexuals and their supporters don’t realize that fornication is as much a sin as homosexuality.


6 posted on 10/16/2012 8:03:32 AM PDT by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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“I absolutely believed in that lock, stock and barrel.”

There is his problem. Since saving faith comes from above, I don’t think he never actually “believed”


7 posted on 10/16/2012 8:04:40 AM PDT by Augustinian monk (People ask me 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' Why pray if he isn't?- Michael Horton)
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dude just stole my doctorate project where I'd pretend to be lesbian (not one of those truck-driver-liking ones though)
8 posted on 10/16/2012 8:06:33 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa (Vote for Goode, end up with evil, pat self on back repeatedly)
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so unwilling to accept that homosexuality is on a moral par with heterosexuality

What a breathtaking display of stupidity.

9 posted on 10/16/2012 8:09:04 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
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Liberty University the West Point of Wha...? Who makes this stuff up? It’s a Christian Lib Arts school. There are many others their equal or better.

This guy lied for a year. And he disobeyed 2 Cor. 6: 14-18 and Eph. 5. You don’t become a sinner to reach sinners.


10 posted on 10/16/2012 8:10:04 AM PDT by lurk
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"None of them taught that Christ followers should be “afraid” of God."

Proverbs 1:7

11 posted on 10/16/2012 8:11:04 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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“....‘Hey listen, you are an abomination and you need to repent to go to heaven.’ I absolutely believed in that lock, stock and barrel.” “

Exactly CORRECT! You were taught well.


12 posted on 10/16/2012 8:11:57 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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There’s nothing “gay” about being a self loathing, demented homosexual. Lie down with dogs and get fleas applies here. This is just another version of having a cover story in order to partake in the perverted behavior.


13 posted on 10/16/2012 8:12:56 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
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“I was pretending to be gay when that guy put his ____ up my _____! I totally fooled you!!”


14 posted on 10/16/2012 8:15:50 AM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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Is he going to cheat on his wife in the future to see what an adulterer faces? So many sins, so little time.


15 posted on 10/16/2012 8:15:55 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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The guy is a liar.
Being a liar is a sin as well.


16 posted on 10/16/2012 8:17:13 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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I have encountered gays online who make the foulest and most vulgar comments, the most scary threats, the most childish remarks, and they say we are intolerant?

Gays are not even “gay”. I have never met an angrier, meaner, nastier, most belligerent group of people and/or their supporters ever. You are either with them or you are a bigot racist intolerant hateful scumbag. There is no rational debate with them. It is either/or.


17 posted on 10/16/2012 8:20:17 AM PDT by RochesterNYconservative (ROMNEY/RYAN 20121)
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How to get on ABC News, with a breathless interviewer hanging on every word.


18 posted on 10/16/2012 8:21:02 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Anyone who believes this author isn’t a male homo or at the least, a homophile, needs a lesson in truth telling. Coming from the public health standpoint, male homosexuals have a lifespan on par with IV drug addicts and a full 20 years shorter than chain smokers. I am not condemning smokers, because they don’t infect other people. Male homos are without parallel when it comes to infecting other people with diseases that result in incalculable harm and cost, not to mention their driving attraction for young boys makes them a sexual menace to all our male children.


19 posted on 10/16/2012 8:28:18 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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It is a fool’s errand to attempt debate with the profoundly psychologically imbalanced. Homosexuality is their exclusive religion.


20 posted on 10/16/2012 8:30:53 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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