Comments on: Gay Staffer Says Invisible Children is Not Anti-Gay https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/#comment-95205 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:56 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11298#comment-95205 I gather that Josh Kron (the NY Times’ man in Kampala) takes a rather different view of IC: his ‘take’ is that, while IC does have backing from some fundamentalist christian groups, it is (and I quote) “perhaps the most successful manifestation of, a little-known, ultra-LIBERAL (my emphasis), and highly controversial post-Evangelical Christian movement known as the Emerging Church.”

One Tony Jones, cited as having “been one of the leaders of the Emergent Church Village”, described “the supposed connection between [IC] and the emergent church movement” as “ludicrous”.

Confused? I certainly am!

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/#comment-95194 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11298#comment-95194 The report contains a couple of interesting asides: (1) it mentions the recent rise in HIV transmission rates, a rise which it says is coincidental with the increasing influence of ‘abstinence only’ (and anti-gay) campaigns; (2) it cites David Bahati’s recently reported contention that the Fellowship ‘inspired’ his ‘Hang-the-Gays’ Bill.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/#comment-95201 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11298#comment-95201 @ David M.

I entirely agree with you on the matter of ‘ground rules’ regarding people’s private lives. Any ‘attacks’ (and, as you may have noticed, I am not averse to mounting ‘attacks’ from time to time!) should be directed at what people say (or appear to say) on this blog, and not on what they might or might not do in the privacy of their homes.

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/#comment-95199 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11298#comment-95199 Seems like the IC-Fellowship link story won’t go away: http://www.truthwinsout.org/feature/2012/04/23938/

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2012/03/21/gay-staffer-says-invisible-children-is-not-anti-gay/#comment-95198 Wed, 30 May 2018 22:49:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=11298#comment-95198 (I might just reveal to those who are interested that I work in a large ethnically- and socially-diverse inner-city ‘junior college’, with around 70% of the student cohort coming from what the UK Government deems to be ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds. But my students are as entitled as is anybody else to hold and discuss, without being insulted or ridiculed, views on political issues, and they often do so with great intelligence and insight.)

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