The Defiance of Love: On Glennon, And Hate, And Moms With Transgender Kids

First, she says she is baffled:

Your insistence that you love the sinner but hate the sin, and your decision to direct this approach almost entirely to LGBTQ people, baffles me. I am baffled because you claim that you have no choice; as a Christian, you are required by God to be against same-sex sexual practices and by extension relationships or identities that are connected to such practices. Because you see, I am a Christian too and I see no contradiction between same-sex sexuality or gender non-conformity and Christianity.

It’s true. There are those of us who can only see their version of “Biblical”. They see a scripture describe a sin, and when they look up from their Bibles all of a sudden all they can see is sin all around them, and they stop seeing people — whole people. People with joys and loves and dislikes and talents and a whole plethora of other things that make them beautiful children of God, capable of loving God, and loving people.

This mom, like me, is tired of how Christians are always represented. Read her words on the next page.