Justin Lee on Rescuing the Gospel from the Gay-vs.-Christians Debate




Homebrewed Culture Cast show

Summary: After a delightful anecdote about Christian's daughter and a painful listen to <a href="http://burnsidewriters.com/2011/12/07/the-abominable-o-holy-night-redux/2/">the worst version of "O Holy Night" ever recorded</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/christianpiatt">Christian</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanRGreen">Jordan</a> welcome Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Torn-Rescuing-Gospel-Gays-vs--Christians-Debate/dp/1455514314/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355767984&amp;sr=1-1-catcorr&amp;keywords=torn+justin+lee">Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate</a>, to the show. Justin was raised in a conservatives evangelical culture, and around the time he reached puberty realized he was gay. He has since found a call from God in his ministry of reconciliation between those in the LGBT community and those in the church currently wrestling with issues of sexual identity. The guys ask him about clobber passages, the potential pitfalls of trying to bridge such an explosive cultural divide, and whether the Apostle Paul might've been gay. In the Christian Echo Chamber, Pat Robertson says something entirely reasonable about science! Then Bill O'Reilly said something about Christianity being a philosophy, which he was either wrong or not wrong about, depending on your perspective. Either way, the War on Christmas is stupid, and Jordan gets kind of upset about it at the end.   *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;business=2HHFQ656WHKEC&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Homebrewed%20Christianity%20Podcasts&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted"> donation via paypal.</a> We got bandwidth to buy &amp; audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your <a href="http://www.amazon.com/">Amazon purchase th</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/">rough this link </a> OR you can send us a few and<a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&amp;business=2HHFQ656WHKEC&amp;lc=US&amp;item_name=Buy%20us%20a%20Brew%21&amp;amount=5%2e00&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted"> get us a pint!</a>***