Christian Perspectives
By Rev. Edward Bellsmith
The speaker was Wendy Gritter. She is the director of a Canadian organization called New Direction. It is a conservative Christian group set up to minister to gays and lesbians. I must explain that this is one of the groups targeted in the past by the gay community as being anti-gay and homophobic, because of their previous stance of seeing homosexuality as something that needed to be changed or cured.
She began with an apology to the gay community for the hurts caused by uncharitable Christian attitudes. She said, 'I believe we have a long way to go to eradicate hateful and homophobic environments and responses in the Christian community. We have a long way to go to demolish the pervasive hierarchy of sin. And we have a long way to go to counter-act the perpetual sense of shame that many experience due to the reality of their same-gender attraction.'
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The speaker was Wendy Gritter. She is the director of a Canadian organization called New Direction. It is a conservative Christian group set up to minister to gays and lesbians. I must explain that this is one of the groups targeted in the past by the gay community as being anti-gay and homophobic, because of their previous stance of seeing homosexuality as something that needed to be changed or cured.
She began with an apology to the gay community for the hurts caused by uncharitable Christian attitudes. She said, 'I believe we have a long way to go to eradicate hateful and homophobic environments and responses in the Christian community. We have a long way to go to demolish the pervasive hierarchy of sin. And we have a long way to go to counter-act the perpetual sense of shame that many experience due to the reality of their same-gender attraction.'
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