Chapter 3 Who will be part of the effort?
Chapter 3 Who will be part of the effort?
Everyone who wants to fight against homophobic Christianity is welcome.
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Chapter 3 Who will be part of the effort?
Everyone who wants to fight against homophobic Christianity is welcome. This is regardless of where they are on the political spectrum, whether their interest is primarily or tangentially or contingent, or regardless of religion or sexual identity.
The deciding question is who is pulling our wagon forward, who isn’t, and who is trying to block it.
Unfortunately, in the Gay community, across the political spectrum, there are those who feel their ideology contains the whole of Gay liberation or is Gay liberation and seek to exclude those who don’t share their political or other partisan views. This movement needs to look at whether you are pulling the wagon forward or not. For those who can’t work across the political spectrum, they might go off and have their own partisan group. The only downside is that it might make our effort look like it is an appendage of some political movement which it won’t be.
There are going to be those whose interest in this question might tangential or contingent. A group also being harassed or persecuted by Christians might be interested in supporting our effort in so much as it fits into their plans to resist Christian opposition. A group might find parts of our campaign useful for their agenda. Working with them will have to be flexible and dependent with what their agenda is.
Straights can be supporters and involved. We will need all the help we can get.
Finally Gay Christians can be part of the effort. This might seem contradictory since a chapter in this book is devoted to criticizing the efforts, arguments, and tactics of Gay Christians as being impediments to defeating homophobic Christianity. However, we shouldn’t jump to conclusions that they won’t be part of the effort.
First, some Gay Christians might realize that their agenda isn’t necessarily the agenda of the whole Gay community. Second, Gay Christians where they are able to eliminate homophobic Christianity have eliminated homophobic Christianity. Third, Gay Christians, upon hearing our criticisms, might modify or change their tactics. Fourth, they might point to our more militant movement to apply pressure where need be. Fifth, there might arise new forms and types of Gay Christianity that aren’t just Gays who are members of a largely straight churches.
They likely will be a separate movement, but it will be a movement generally recognized as pushing their own religious agenda, and it will be a movement that can proceed on its own.
If they are pulling the wagon forward, they are working for our agenda.
Who is to be excluded, are those who represent themselves as defending us from homophobic attacks, but aren’t really doing so, and their agenda is really to defend Christianity. Arguments such as religious leaders shouldn’t target Gays because there are many types of sin, are still classifying homosexuality as a sin and the agenda is defending Christianity. Those who argue that it is up to God to judge and punish, are just side stepping the issue.
This won’t be an atheist movement that is tolerating Gay Christians either. Gays in other faiths will be welcome. There are Gay in religious movements and groups which are currently targeted by Christians, often the same Christians who are homophobic.
In the West there isn’t any specific Gay religious option either. To have an alternative to homophobic Christianity that isn’t atheism, there really needs to be the development of Gay non-Christian religious activities.
A broad base group would be a group which would be more likely to have different ideas to choose from to use for our campaign against homophobic Christianity and support multiple ways and efforts to fight homophobic Christianity.
