Believe in Christian sexual ethics? Then you have enemies

Nov 17, 2018 by

by Paul Huxley, Christian Concern:

If you hold to a biblically faithful position on sexuality and gender, you have enemies.

I don’t know anyone who wants to have enemies. And Christians are called to love their enemies. But, try as we might, we can no longer ignore the reality of people who hate what we stand for and seek to do us harm.

We’re unlikely to be physically attacked, or thrown in a police cell – although that has happened to some UK street preachers – but we can be sure that there are people who would like to see no place for us in 21st century British society.

ITV news ‘exposés’

This week ITV has run undercover ‘exposés’ of various groups who offer what could be described as ‘conversion therapy’. The term is normally used to refer to any help or therapy given to people who want to lessen their experience of same-sex attraction.

ITV sent an reporter to at least three groups: a church, a Christian charity and the launch of IFTCC (at which Christian Concern chief executive Andrea Williams, spoke).

In my view, they have used the research to cover these groups in the most negative light possible. You can see how this works in my initial reactions to one of the articles on Twitter.

Paul Brand, the journalist behind the coverage, has summed up his reports in a Twitter thread that – for those with eyes to see – quite clearly shows his misconceptions about Christian beliefs and his partiality on the topic.

The media is rarely interested in covering this topic even-handedly. Films that tell stories about people ‘coming to terms’ with their alternative sexuality are heavily promoted and lauded. Editors fall over themselves to give airtime to people who allege harm or who want to change the church’s view on sexuality – while the many stories of those who move away from same-sex attraction (e.g. Voices of the Silenced and Changed Movement) or who resist acting on it (e.g. Living Out) are routinely ignored.

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