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March 1, 2006
I am not Straight
I knew that when billboards like the one above began appearing along St. Louis highways, that there would be a backlash. And there has been. Protesters picketed a locally held Exodus conference and "modified" some of the billboards to "a positive message." Here is more of the modification . And then there is this editorial in the local paper, which is humorously, flippantly, and effectively written to dismiss any possibility or desire for change on the part of homosexuals.
Well, rather than simply fume at feeling that the Exodus postion has been dismissed without a hearing. Here are some resources on this issue that I have both found and expect to find useful, and finally a poem.
For an excellent, wonderfully pastoral, theological approach to this issue listen to Michael Williams' lecture. For lectures on the psychology of homosexuality and whether change is possible, listen to Richard Winter. Finally, there is a whole organization, NARTH, (which is not religious at its core, though I am sure it has many religiously motivated members) which maintains that change is possible.
Finally, finally here is a poem which expresses some of my own thinking on this issue. The metaphor of a God providing the ultimate Straight for our crookedness is a true one. Nonetheless, it is rather poor and incomplete as God is not simply the Ultimate Rule, but a loving, warm, compassionate Father.
A Hetero Talks Straight
I am not straight.
Crooked in a thousand different angles
Of lust and pride and hate,
I cannot claim to rule
The lines of your existence
More Incongruent than my own.
So, let us kneel
And work and wait.
Let us, together, submit to pains
Of Bending.
Let us weep and wait,
Together,
For the Ending,
That brings the world in line,
In great joy,
With Straight.
| By jackdas | 11:50 AM
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