Mitchell Gold
Furniture maker Mitchell Gold came in to speak to us about his other passion, saving LGBT youth. With his new book, “Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social and Religious Pain of Growing Up Gay in America,” Mitchell offers a collection of tales from people in the community, both famous and not, about what it has been like to grow up gay in this country. It is heart-wrenching and powerful, and is a great resource for today’s youth and their families. You should definitely check it out and pass it around so we can further educate people about this crisis amongst the youth of the LGBT community.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:09 am
I had a ‘confusing’ time when I was about 12 years old when I felt attraction to the same sex in addition to the opposite sex, however I went to my youth pastor and he assured me that some kids go through these periods of confusion and not to worry about it too much. Well I felt better knowing that, but I still knew that is was wrong to be a homosexual. I didn’t take the untenable moral position that since it “felt right” or “felt good” that it must “be good.” It may “feel good” to steal, cheat on your wife, or even express your anger in violence toward someone, but feelings alone are not a solid logical or moral reason to act.
Later I grew out of these feelings for the most part because I chose to encourage my opposite sex feelings and discourage my same sex feelings. I am naturally oriented (straight) now and have been all of my life.
When you teach youth that this immoral position is moral, then of course you can lead many youth the wrong way. Mitchell Gold says that he wants to “rescue” the youth of America by helping them overcome these “guilt” feelings of having homosexual urges. Well have you ever entertained the thought that maybe they feel guilty because THEY ARE?
I think Mitchell is the one harming them because of his deep seated need to feel accepted himself by convincing the world around him that his immorality is actually good morality and then saying that the religious people’s freedom is encroaching on his freedom to be immoral.
Well if encroaching on a thief’s right, for example, to steal means making laws and ENFORCING those laws, then yes, religious people are “encroaching.” The problem is that you expect the moral laws to protect what is immoral.
Perhaps the worst offense Mitchell Gold presents is making the continuing comparison with the “civil rights struggles” of different groups and saying that the religious conservatives have been instrumental in blocking those causes the entire way.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Mitchell, are you now trying to write revisionist history? The abolitionist movement of the slaves was started by Christians and funded by Christians. President Abraham Lincoln was a Christian and Republican and helped greatly the cause of civil rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was a conservative Christian. Even if you go back to the beginning of this country, it was founded by mainly Puritans who were escaping religious persecution from the false Church of England and religious intolerance to found a country on religious freedom and law. Laws that were and are based on the Bible.
The groups that you so gladly fond of associating with like the women’s right to vote, desegregation, and equal rights based on race, religion and creed, are fundamentally NOT the same. The aforementioned causes had MORAL basis. They all were being discriminated against based on something they had no choice in WHATSOEVER. Being born a woman is NOT a personal choice. Being born a black is NOT a personal choice. Sexual choices, however difficult they may seem to many, ARE choices.
Martin Luther King Jr. would roll over in his grave if he knew that his great ideas would be distorted and perverted like they have by the homosexual movement. He himself was a conservative Christian, a Baptist at that, and he would shudder to think his principles of “inclusion” would be twisted so far to mean the “tolerance” of sin.
What America has “tolerated” too long is moral relativism. Mitchell Gold wants to appeal to a person’s since of fairness in morality only when those morals suit his agenda. He wants fairness and tolerance when it is towards his people, but cares nothing about making it seem that what Christians espouse is “hate” and “discrimination.” If you keep that talk up, you may actually impede our freedom of speech. Is THAT fair and tolerant? Christians are being discriminated against.
What about the Christian’s right to freely speak & vote his conscience and also make the laws in this land? (We did in California twice and you still are complaining). What about the Christian’s right to stand up for what we believe is right and fight for it? What about the Christian’s right to let God be the judge through the Bible and not the distortion of the liberal media of the Word of God (which most have never read) and the true meaning of morality. If anyone is being “intolerant” it is homosexual movement. You call what is sin, good and what is good, bad.
I really pray that the light of Jesus’ love will be shown down on the whole homosexual community and set them free from this lie. But to be set free, you first have to admit you are in chains.