That worried, scared Junior High kid really doesn’t care what you think of homosexuality.

Having been that kid, I can tell you that he or she really does care what you think about homosexuality. There is just no way around that.

Giving in to the “gay is always good” is extremely difficult in light of some of the very real and very destructive aspects of homosexual behavior that seem to be so easily ignored by those who have an agenda to push.

This is more of the same sort of rhetoric that we don’t need. There are destructive heterosexuals and there are destructive homosexuals. Lets leave it at that and stop painting “homosexual behavior”, whatever you mean by that, out to be something that is inherently destructive.

Where I think this conversation will end up is consistent with my post about what kind of dialogue we will have. On the Day of Silence, GLSEN wants to raise awareness about anti-gay bullying. On the Day of Dialogue, FOF wants to raise awareness about their view of homosexuality. They are two conversations with different aims. There is two sides to the doctrinal issues, but there is no other side to the bullying question. By raising the DoD as the antithesis of the DoS, Focus errs by changing the subject. Hence, they look complicit in bullying. This is a classic mistake made by evangelicals. We often want to defend the faith, failing to see that we defend best by living the faith, rather than talking about it.

Just go to school and volunteer to help in the bully prevention program. Love. Reach out. Be Christ without self-consciously having to defend your view of Him. That worried, scared Junior High kid really doesn’t care what you think of homosexuality. He does care that someone steps in front of a bully and says no.