“…The author…became habituated to leading a double life, until the double life (considerate curbside young heterosexual gentleman vs. The Other One) became a strain and…felonious queer reality hit that high-carat idea from the European arsenal, Alienation in the Metropolis,…[beginning] one’s career in brokering of affection with strangers, ever after clouding the original picture of the Edenic abode.”
–James McCourt, Queer Street
“Love is a many-gendered thing.”
–an ex-gay Village Church member (who reads this passage)
This message (October 19, 2008) introduced the beginning of the Higher Ground ministry (originally called, G.A.M.E.), which assists people with unwanted same-sex attraction to follow Christ. We look at the creation of marriage and the creation of gender (Genesis 2:8-15). The passage describes the meeting of the two different flavors of people. So, I explore two propositions:
Marriage is predicated on gender difference
Marriage is a place to understand your identity—finding the definition of the complement.
So I ask those in monogendered relationships to reconsider. And, I exhort men in intergendered marriages to be wounded for their wives.
I am happy that the Higher Ground Ministry is still going on today. Because gender is about the relationship with the other.
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Thanks for the shout out to Higher Ground, Sam, which it was your daring vision to bring into existence.