Gay Adventist Professor: Is it Time to Come Out?

May 14, 2009 · 3 Comments

Dear Power of Pride,

I teach at one of our colleges, and keep my classroom presentations to the subject. But in the last year, there have been so many burning issues of interest to the Community, that I’ve gotten pretty deeply into internet activism — using my real name, which was probably a mistake.

I thought I could keep my virtual world separate from my work here at the college, but it seems word is getting around. When I arrived at my office today, I found this card slid under the door.

The college I teach at is very liberal and accepting of alternative lifestyles, but I don’t really think I should come out — after all, who wants to suffer the fate of Grady Smoot?

In academy, I had felt some attraction for guys, but also some for the chicks. But then I went off to a major Adventist university for my college studies. The gay student union was extraordinarily active, and, what shall I say, the flesh is weak.

For grad school, I attended an institution located in the gay village. So much for any of those resolutions!

So I got the idea, maybe I should get with a chick. There are plenty of them in the gay village, and so I got involved. I got to thinking — maybe I’m not so gay after all. But then my girlfriend came out to me as dyke.

Oh, well, maybe I could just stay away from these influences, and read my Bible in my spare time.

The time in grad school was soon over, and I was doing pretty well at keeping things under control.

Until I started attending la church every week. You’ve probably heard about the “lay activities” coordinator in a church, well, the church I attend has a “gay activities” coordinator.

Sometimes I feel so confused and frustrated because I seem to sum up the two genders and plenty of shades of gray in between in my orientation.

I need a personal God who can understand me.

!!YOUR ANSWERS FROM POWER OF PRIDE – GAY ADVENTIST NEWS!!

Dear Adventist professor,

You are not alone! Other Adventist theologians have wrestled with this matter, and come to revolutionary conclusions!!!!

ADVENTIST SEX EXPERT

“God certainly is not masculine. You cannot say God is male. He, He is not.

He is more than both genders, and when God created humanity, he created man and woman in his image so that means both man and woman so therefore God is not male.” (Ekkehardt Mueller, Interview with Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller, Ground 7 News, http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/2704554)

AND GENERAL CONFERENCE BIBLICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE DIRECTOR

Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller is a director of the Biblical Research Institute of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. He is based out of their HQ in Silver Spring, Maryland. http://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/aboutus.htm

AN AGE OF DIVERSITY

“Genderqueer and intergender are catchall terms for gender identities other than man and woman. People who identify as genderqueer may think of themselves as being both male and female, as being neither male nor female, or as falling completely outside the gender binary. Some wish to have certain features of the opposite sex and not all characteristics; others want it all.” (Genderqueer, Wikipedia)

We live in times when openness about, and acceptance of, alternative lifestyles has become widespread in society. And, of course, in those churches who orient their theology to what the world thinks and does.

ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN

The Adventist church has become popular with the world and the other churches. And now the second-ranking Adventist theologian is reaching out to the genderqueer community with his unique theology. You see, its a matter of being all things to all men:

“Making disciples might require us to do strange things: eat or drink strange mixtures, and be all things to all people so we can win some. This is the call and challenge of discipleship, especially as the gospel goes around the world and into cultures sometimes radically different from our own.”
http://ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/08a/less06.html

A lot of Christians believe that God the Father has a masculine identity, like most fathers do, but Dr. Mueller says otherwise:

“Now for example some people will claim, and its true, in the Old Testament you have you have very strongly masculine language uh I I actually have a list here clear female references to God clear female references to God in scripture about about 8. Possible female references to God are about 5. And then you have unlikely, and even false, references, where people falsely have said this is a female reference to God. In other words, we don’t have many, but its true that that God is also described as a mother. For example, in Isaiah 63.” (Ekkehardt Mueller, Interview with Dr. Ekkehardt Mueller, Ground 7 News, http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/2704554)

So you see you are not alone!

3 responses so far ↓

Bill Mead // May 23, 2009 at 3:44 pm

As to the question, “Is It Time To Come Out?”
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YES! Come out of your position and become a
Christian and serve the Lord in a different job.
marci // September 24, 2009 at 1:15 am

And you call yourselves Seventh-day Adventists????……shame on you!! This is NOT the church with the truth that I was brought up in!! Call yourself anything BUT Seventh-day-Adventist…..I am truly shocked that this is being taught in our schools…you are no different than the world….truly these are the end times…you are living proof of it!

MAYBE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT THE PINK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. CHECK THIS:
http://powerofpride.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/randal-wisbey-speaks-to-la-sierra-university-evolution-and-asscherick-letter/
Alexander Carpenter // November 28, 2009 at 7:07 pm

I drink http://spectrummagazine.org/files/pictures/picture-1451.gif

Power of Pride