'Love Is Love': media firm uses LGBT language to send anti-gay message

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

'Love Is Love': media firm uses LGBT language to send anti-gay message

Evangelical group rejects claims its BuzzFeed-style videos, aimed at ‘the next generation’, preach conversion therapy

Josiah Hesse
Tue 23 Jan 2018 12.00 GMT

The “Love Is Love” video begins with a teenage girl, Emily, telling the story of coming out to her parents. “Love is not necessarily between a man and a woman,” she recalls saying. Footage plays of two women, dancing and flirting. “If you’re truly a Christian, you’re on my side ... because God is love.”

Between the title and the rainbow flag, you could easily mistake this for a pro-LGBT video from the It Gets Better or Truth Wins Out campaigns. But it’s actually from Anchored North, an evangelical media company that uses short-form videos to proselytize on behalf of Christianity via social media.

For the first half of the four-minute video, Emily’s life is ticking along nicely, including getting engaged to a woman. Then she’s invited to a church. “I Googled [Bible] verses on homosexuality,” she recalls, “and it scared me really bad.”

By the end, Emily is cuddled up with a handsome young man in gray sweater, as she explains: “It’s not gay to straight, it’s lost to saved.”

At one point in the video, Emily uses the popular LGBT-affirming phrase “born this way”, but twists it to say that all humans are born with sin, but there is hope in Jesus.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/23/lgbt-rights-anti-gay-video-love

[left-of-center2012]

1. I know about 'christians'

I converted to Buddhism 23 years ago due to the behavior and comments from my evangelical siblings,
who told me I'd be burning in Hell
while they party in Heaven.

(Who knew evangelicals party?)

[dsmac]

2. Not easy to be Christian and gay.

The blame for the confusion and suffering of Christian LGBT members falls primarily on the Church. Centuries ago, the Christian Church abandoned its mystical side for intellectualism, rationalism, modernism. That is to say, we decided that we can figure things out for ourselves. We will call You God when we need You. And I think out of cowardice too. And ever since, garbage like this "conversion therapy" is all that the Church is left with. Simply put, Christians today have little clue what they are doing because they don't fully know or understand what they believe. And then people like myself suffer needlessly.

I am gay and I am a practicing Christian. I love my God and my Church, but it is not easy. I try to be patient and forgiving because, man, they really don't know what they are doing.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Thank you for your thoughtful post and welcome to DU

We're glad to have you with us!

[RKP5637]

4. I avoid anything christian or any religion like the plague. n/t