No Longer Quivering
by Doug Wilson of Blog and Mablog – When the Devil Says Checkmate
Editor’s note: This is another part of Doug Wilson’ supposedly fictitious counseling of a young gay Christian man via correspondence. In the unquoted bit Doug analyses the positive self-described qualities of this man before ending up equaling these same qualities – gentleness and sensitivity – with femininity and, of course, his biggest fear of homosexuality.
You have repented of explicit homosexual acts, which of course, is exactly what you need to have done. But you have come into a world that flatters and reinforces certain habits of mind in you which, when they come to nasty fruition at one in the morning, are a true stumbling block to you. Your temptation is to think that these lusts just attack you out of thin air, or that the problem has to do with the lateness of the hour. But it is more complicated than this.
Run this thought experiment. Imagine someone who has only known you since you started attending a more conservative church. They know nothing of your previous lifestyle, and over the course of a year, they have gotten to know you pretty well, and all they know of you is within the context of that church. If, after a year, that person finds out about your background, what does he then say? If it something like that figures, or now it makes sense, this is not a testimony to their unfortunate stereotyping. In other words, there is not an automatic connection between soft effeminacy and homosexual behavior. But there is a connection, and it is a connection that is all the more dangerous to men in your position because so many evangelical Christians insist on denying that there is any connection. And people fall into traps when it becomes rude or discourteous to post any warning signs by them.
QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.
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