The other day I received the following e-mail from Susanne, a woman who found out her some years ago that her husband has same-sex attractions. I felt so moved by her words that I asked her permission to share them with you on the blog. I (recently) saw your Doin Time... and I was the one who asked about your wife during the discussion period that followed. I just read your thoughts on What About the Spouse ....and I can say, most women who find out their husbands are gay feel ALL of those things you wondered about....some in more degrees than others... When my husband was dragged out of the closet because of his irreverent, immoral, and amoral behavior that our, then, 14 and 16 year old sons had to find on our home computer, I went into the closet. I didn't know what to pray for.... Do I pray that this will go away? Do I pray that he could go back to the way things were in our family before we knew about him,? Do I pray that I could go back to the way things were? After all ,...
Musings of Peterson Toscano, an ex-gay survivor and creator of Doin' Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House, Transfigurations: Transgressing Gender in the Bible, and Bubble and Squeak podcast.
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Keep up the good work and hopefully you can start leading a newbie bible study group to help the people you've got in the door learn more.
Marvin,
Tirade, eh? Yeah, I guess so. I'm sorry. I've been really irritable lately, I think my online rep is starting to suffer. *oops*
Anyway, good luck with the Jesusses in your life, I guess if your evangelising brought three new people into your church, then... what can we say? I hope they find what they were looking for.
The Enemy is not happy... somehow that line stands out to me. Like, it should be a bandname, or at least a song. The Enemy is not Happy. Or a comic book! Yeah, it could almost be a twisted, pseudo-religious shonen-ai, like Chrono Crusade, but with Bishes, and more whipping! The Enemy is not Happy. Hey, I'd buy it.
OK, sorry, I had a bit of a geek-out there, I don't suppose anyone here knows what the hell I'm on about. Sorry. I still think it could be a band though. The Enemy is not Happy. Rock on.
Jack Chick is a bigot.
His little tracks are filled with venom and half-truths.
And Marvin, I'm not sure what to say. Like Joe, I never got those kind of results from my door-to-door adventures. Then again, I never tried Chick tracts either. We used to do the "we're just here to do a survey" method. Sometimes you just have to lie them into the kingdom!
Check out their myspace page (you may have to construct it first!)
Yeah, Willie, it has a nice ring to it. Sad thing is some sappy Christian pop duo will co-op the name and destroy it, thus making the enemy very happy.