A close family member has begun to live as a lesbian. What should I do?
By Frederica Mathewes-Green
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I doubt Derbyshire can succeed in re–appropriating the term "homophobia," but I admire his attempt to offer a third way between the forced alternatives of celebration and hate. There are a great many of us who share this position.
It's not unusual for there to be a gap between what people say and what they do, but usually the weakness is on the doing side. Here it's the reverse: we're already walking the walk, feeling love toward homosexuals yet prayerfully wishing to call them to wholeness in Christ. Now we have to learn to talk the talk.
Frederica Mathewes–Green is the author of The Illumined Heart (Paraclete Press).
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