Babble On
- Andrew Comiskey
- Jun 16
- 2 min read
‘Ambiguity isn’t compassion. It’s poison with a smile.’
Christopher Yuan (click here to access his The Holy Sexuality Project)
My alma mater—Fuller Seminary—recently ‘reconfirmed its commitment to the historical theological understanding of marriage,’ while acknowledging that ‘faithful Christians have come to affirm other covenantal forms of relationship.’ Babble on.
Echoing the doublespeak is scholar David Bennett who entertained the troops at Vintage Church Los Angeles with his campy take on ‘queer celibacy.’ A good friend of mine, repenting of homosexuality, was incredulous: ‘My church has never been more confusing to me.’
Equally confounding is theologian Preston Sprinkle platforming ‘gay Christian’ Gregory Coles, who teaches teens to identify just like himself. Celebrate your rainbow destiny, kids, just don’t do the dirty deed. Babble on.
And so babbles Revoice, Eden Invitation, and other organizations that fight for LGBTQ+ identification in Jesus’ Name and Church as a sign of their authenticity. (For the best critique, check out this article—‘Your sexual pathology doesn’t make you special’— by Thomas Mirus.**) Sure, God may have raised Jesus from the dead but He will not raise His children off the rainbow spectrum.
Such confusion diminishes the Gospel and biblical anthropology. It dissuades the vulnerable from knowing the truth of their original dignity and from aspiring to it in the Spirit that catapulted Jesus out of His tomb.
Babble on. Instead of clarifying confused saints, the American Church has become expert at appeasing the LGBTQ+ juggernaut with double-speak.
It’s fear-driven, a big fat concession to the deception spawned at Stonewall in ’69. There, in a Greenwich Village bar, persons stoked by same-sex lust politicized and assumed minority status. We have since been bombarded by ‘gay’ rights, culture, and a powerful agenda. ‘Give us what we want, or else!’ The power of that agenda is evident in the thousands of Christians who claim biblical authority while confirming LGBTQ+ ‘status’ upon the misdirected faithful who demand it. Babble on.
We need the Spirit of Apostle Paul who ‘did not shrink back from preaching…the entire plan of God’ (Acts 20:27). We need the Spirit of Pentecost to give us such courage: courage to hold fast to how God made us and equally, the unfailing love that liberates us to realize our birthright.
We need courage to gently and firmly refuse the doublespeak of our fellow Christians. Let us find the narrow way. We can embrace ‘the entire plan of God’, both in biblical anthropology and in the power of the Gospel to redeem broken lives. We trust God to protect us, come what may, from threatening forces. We do so for those whom God, in His magnificence, grants the grace of repentance.
‘The tongues of fire sent down by the Holy Spirit reorient our words to match the Word of truth itself. When our language reflects the Word, the eyes of our mind refocus with new clarity. Our reason catches fire and we become bold. Pentecost means nothing less than the reordering of our minds to Truth, putting our confused Babel minds back into order. Pentecost vanquishes Babel.’
Anne Husted Burleigh
**Click here for a PDF version of Mirus' article
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It's interesting to me that I find greater moral clarity from secular leaders than I do the church - JK Rowling on women's rights and transgenderism in sports, Dana White and Elon on freedom of speech being examples, Sure, no one wants to see arrogant religious hypocrites fervently judging others. But is love devoid of truth even love?
We are in the "last days" for sure. Paul warns us: "There will be terrible times in the last days". Paul speaks of people who will "have a form of godliness, but denying its power"! "Terrible" indeed.
And so, this speaks of REVOICE et al. Proclaiming Christ but denying His Power to give them a new identity as new Creations who are Born Again. Instead calling themselves by their brokenness: gay Christians.
If Jesus is powerless to transform people, then what else is Jesus powerless to do? A pandora's box is opened! "Terrible times" indeed...
Andrew, thank you for preaching the transformative power of the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to change us at our core! Persons and institutions taking the “babbling” approach are muddying the truth in their nuance and compromise. The reality is unwanted same-sex attraction and gender confusion are not immutable, but fluid, and there are underlying, contributing factors that can be addressed and healed. These “babblers” are not providing real and effective help in their tepidness and timidity. They are complicit in vulnerable ones staying stuck developmentally and relationally in a false identity, rather than embracing the goodness of their essential maleness and femaleness according to God’s biblical design, and increasing their capacity for healthy relating. The “babblers”…
I love this vantage point. In my professional life I study female hormones and there is research to support that birth control causes some women to “become” bisexual.
I really think it’s time to look at those who say they were born this way and see what their childhood vaccine exposure was. This is an area the Church could lead in because no one is talking about this elephant in the room about vaccines and the LGBT identity connection.