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A Word about Words and Acronyms A Word about Words and Acronyms
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Before the Culture Wars Before the Culture Wars
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Pioneers Pioneers
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Christian Homophobia Rising in the South Christian Homophobia Rising in the South
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Toxic Closet, Spiritual Wildernesses, and Welcoming Congregations Toxic Closet, Spiritual Wildernesses, and Welcoming Congregations
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New Options for Gay Christians and their Allies New Options for Gay Christians and their Allies
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Two Congregations Two Congregations
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A 2:00 A.M. Hour of Reckoning for Southern Churches A 2:00 A.M. Hour of Reckoning for Southern Churches
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10 Southern, Christian, and Gay
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Published:April 2018
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Abstract
In no area is contemporary southern Christianity more deeply divided than over the issue of sexuality. Younger people (including many self-described Bible-believing Christians) do not think that being gay has anything to do with one’s status before God, nor should it have before the law or in the family of faith. Baby boomers may be the last generation to feel otherwise, but for now gender identity and sexuality is a battleground. This chapter, however, is not about the southern Christians who exclude and decry their LGBT neighbors. It is about the several million gay southerners who bear up under that pressure while often holding on to the Christian faith that supposedly drives those who would exclude them. The chapter focusses on the LGBT Christians in the South and their allies who in the contemporary period have decided to be quiet no longer but instead to be proudly Christian and gay, and the growing minority of congregations that have staked out a publicly affirming identity of welcome. For these LGBT people of faith and their allies, the Christian message has sometimes proved stronger and more redemptive than all the resistance they have encountered from other Christians because of their identities.
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