"Here is an outspoken collection of informed opinions and facts that open up one of America's major undiscussed problems for frank debate. What percentage of the male population has had an overt homosexual experience at some time? Is society's rejection, and the homosexual's resultant self-hatred, the cause of promiscuous, impersonal, and irresponsible behavior associated with homosexuality? What popular ideas about homosexuality are disproved by careful research and reporting? Are psychotherapists guilty of arrogant subjectivism in attempting to 'cure' the homosexual? How does a straight, happily married man with two children 'turn into' a homosexual? What do homosexuals do? Why do all these questions need to be asked? because homosexual behavior touches the lives of at least fifteen million Americans, their friends and families. Unsettling--candid--passionate--personal--this is a crossfire of varied views from homosexuals and heterosexuals, men and women, Americans and non-Americans, theologians, and nontheologians, Catholics and Protestants on the present realities of homosexuality."--

A leading Washington journalist argues that gay marriage is the best way to preserve and protect society's most essential institution Two people meet and fall in love. They get married, they become upstanding members of their community, they care for each other when one falls ill, they grow old together. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, says Jonathan Rauch, and that's the point. If the two people are of the same sex, why should this chain of events be any less desirable? Marriage is more than a bond between individuals; it also links them to the community at large. Excluding some people from the prospect of marriage not only is harmful to them, but is also corrosive of the institution itself. The controversy over gay marriage has reached a critical point in American political life as liberals and conservatives have begun to mobilize around this issue, pro and con. But no one has come forward with a compelling, comprehensive, and readable case for gay marriage-until now. Jonathan Rauch, one of our most original and incisive social commentators, has written a clear and honest manifesto explaining why gay marriage is important-even crucial-to the health of marriage in America today. Rauch grounds his argument in commonsense, mainstream values and confronting the social conservatives on their own turf. Gay marriage, he shows, is a "win-win-win" for strengthening the bonds that tie us together and for remaining true to our national heritage of fairness and humaneness toward all.

This book examines the question of whether homosexuality as a trait is a nonmoral good as opposed to the question whether homosexual acts are morally good or right. The analysis incorporates insights from the biological and social sciences and is based upon assumptions about sexuality consistent with a Christian theological point of view. It closes with a recommendation for a Biblical and compassionate approach to the church's ministry of gays and lesbians.

A look at the Biblical and scientific foundations of truth, righteousness, and love for dealing with homosexuality; why America fell for a massive program of propaganda; and the Godly strategy for rebuilding a sane understanding of human sexuality.

Contrary to popular notions, today’s LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925–2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace homosexuality as moral and healthy, publicly denounced the federal government for excluding homosexuals from federal employment, openly fought the military’s ban against gay men and women, debated psychiatrists who depicted homosexuality as a mental disorder, identified test cases to advance civil liberties through the federal courts, acted as counsel to countless homosexuals suffering state-sanctioned discrimination, and organized marches for gay rights at the White House and other public institutions. In Gay Is Good, Long collects Kameny’s historically rich letters, revealing some of the early stirrings of today’s politically powerful LGBT movement. These letters are lively and colorful because they are in Kameny’s inimitable voice—a voice that was consistently loud, echoing through such places as the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament, and often shrill, piercing to the federal agency heads, military generals, and media personalities who received his countless letters. This volume collects approximately 150 letters from 1958 to 1975, a critical period in Kameny’s life during which he evolved from a victim of the law to a vocal opponent of the law, to the voice of the law itself. Long situates these letters in context, giving historical and biographical data about the subjects and events involved. Gay Is Good pays tribute to an advocate whose tireless efforts created a massive shift in social attitudes and practices, leading the way toward equality for the LGBT community.

“I used to be a lesbian.” In Gay Girl, Good God, author Jackie Hill Perry shares her own story, offering practical tools that helped her in the process of finding wholeness. Jackie grew up fatherless and experienced gender confusion. She embraced masculinity and homosexuality with every fiber of her being. She knew that Christians had a lot to say about all of the above. But was she supposed to change herself? How was she supposed to stop loving women, when homosexuality felt more natural to her than heterosexuality ever could? At age nineteen, Jackie came face-to-face with what it meant to be made new. And not in a church, or through contact with Christians. God broke in and turned her heart toward Him right in her own bedroom in light of His gospel. Read in order to understand. Read in order to hope. Or read in order, like Jackie, to be made new.