Andrew Marin
Autor de Love Is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
Sobre El Autor
Andrew Marin graduated in 2003 from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in psychology. He has taught at the Moody Bible Institute and is the founder and president of The Marin Foundation, a non-profit organization working towards greater cooperation between gay, lesbian, bisexual, mostrar más transgender, and religious communities. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Much good and needed information and perspective. A bit challenging, but worth reading.
As someone with little religious inclination, this book didn't speak to me. The author's desire for reconciliation between the two communities and neutrality in the discussion too often led to a simple fact being overlooked: the two parties are not equal. One party is the oppressor and the other the oppressed. It is why Marin's "I'm sorry" campaign worked so well and why this book does not.
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Less effective are his multiple examples of "changed" and "ex-gay" Christians, who, while not emphasized, are forwarded enough to be a not-so-subtle hint at the ideal to which Marin leans. I'm frankly disappointed that celibate gay Christians receive so much airtime here when they comprise so little of LGBT Christians today, ESPECIALLY in 2016, ESPECIALLY after DOMA was struck down and SCOTUS ruled that marriage is a civil right to all adults, regardless of orientation. There are some deeply essentializing stereotypes that are not indicative of all LGBT individuals, especially LGBT Christians, many of whom are married to same-sex partners and have families.
This book would be helpful to Evangelical Christians who don't know anyone gay and still think that being LGBT is a choice and a "lifestyle" (ugh, I feel grossed out just typing that). But if you've done your own Bible study and have wrestled with the questions that Marin brings up, time to wrestle with something much more complex and more multi-faceted.… (más)