28.10.15

Joe Dallas

I try to stay within theological circles when debating homosexuality and the Bible because you take what theologians say with more weight because of their specialty. I wouldn't go to a toffee maker to learn how to take out my tonsils; I would go to a physician because he went to school for it. Now, with that being said, there is also plenty of room for lay Christians to make compelling arguments and even refute these learned scholars because I believe God gives discernment with His Word no matter where you are in the Body of Christ. Great or lowly, each plays a part. I tend to leave these lay Christians alone, except for a few bloggers like myself, even if they believe the opposite of me because I believe they are entitled to their respective opinions because their opinion is not one coming from leadership. This will not be the case with Joe Dallas who's taken up a leadership mantle for himself.

Joe Dallas is not only all wrong for his anti-gay bile you'd hear from a typical preacher touring the church speaker circuit, but he's also a detestable and smarmy human being who tries to make money off of it* (I have never written such harsh criticism on this blog about one individual and that should tell you how this man is in a class all his own). He is yet another "ex-gay" who at one time claimed (some refute this) that he was involved in the early gay church movement and brags he knew Troy Perry who founded the first official church made up of gay Christian believers called the Metropolitan Community Churches. When Dallas left the church and turned against it, he didn't just turn, he turned into a monster against it. Dallas did the unthinkable by saying gays are child molesters and being a "former" homosexual himself, it was like stabbing all gays in the back with what he knew was a lie, but he did it anyway to pander to the ugly religious crowd who at the time said that gays deserved AIDS and were pedophiles. He also made it his mission to tell gay Christians that they are liars who are fooling others by pretending to be Christians because that's what HE did. He not only told gays this, he told everyone who hated gays this. If "Gay Christianity" took on human form, Dallas would stab it 72 times and then run it over with his car over and over again all the while laughing.

Whosoever.org is a site filled with Christian love, but even they couldn't hold back reviewing Dallas's book by saying; "In this book, Joe Dallas distorts and misrepresents everything that Gay and Lesbian Christians have accomplished in the past 30 years... Joe Dallas uses out-of-context selected quotations from Gay Christian leaders in MCC and in other groups to support his rejection of the facts about the "ex-gay fraud." Any person who has accurate knowledge and experience with MCC knows that every congregation and every pastor has a great host of problems to face and handle as best they can. No church is an easy task for the leaders. The Metropolitan Community Churches, however, in the face of sometimes deadly opposition, have given spiritual support and acceptance to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people for many years. In this 30th year anniversary of MCC, the desperately needed spiritual and practical help given by this great Christian ministry speaks for itself.
... This book by Joe Dallas is a destructive and unfortunate misrepresentation of the Bible and the so-called "ex-gay" cause."

A kapo with no conscious for being what he is and a despicable Judas to the fledgling gay church is an individual that I have no name for. I've never seen such a man so ripe for the Gehenna pit.



There is a book that is counter to Dallas' book; "A Gay Gospel?" From a Missouri Pastor called; "The Rebuttal: A Biblical Response Exposing The Deceptive Logic Of Anti-Gay Theology" by Pastor Romell D. Weekly.









*Dallas bilks his customers with talking to them on the phone for less than an hour and charges $225, then offers the needed "companion book" for $200 through his sham organization called "Genesis Counseling." A group that isn't accredited with any health organization because they all refute reparative therapy as harmful and is becoming illegal from state to state as we speak.

3 comments:

RQC said...

I like how he writes too. Excellent book I need to go back to reading.

everready said...

A new essay "Beyond Marriage Equality,Queer Fantasy and Christian Disinformation, what does being gay today mean?" http://wp.me/p6Zhz7-m
Includes original comments re Chambers and Dallas

RQC said...

It's an honor having you here Mr. McCleary. Insightful and excellent article by the way, I much appreciate the input.


Years ago I wrote about "Raca" and I still don't know why that verse gets such very little attention with what is a major implication.


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