gay and christian

Description

Describe what you are recording about. Identify whether it was a journal paper, book chapter; practice observation; taught theory; lecture or other.

In an interview with Peter who is employed as youth worker in the youth ministry of his church. (Peter has asked that he and his youth club remain anonymous as he has given his personal thoughts and feeling)

I asked Peter as a youth worker if he and his church would be a welcoming place for a young person who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. (I am going to use the abbreviation of LGB&T throughout this journal) Peter stated that homosexuality goes against his own personal values and beliefs and also the beliefs of his church. That his church preaches homosexuality is a sin, that God created Adam and Eve and that a sexual experience should be between and man and a woman.

He felt that if a young person identified as LGB&T that he personally could not work with them as their sexual orientation would be contradictory to his faith and teaching of the church. He stated that if a young person chooses to be LGBT that they have also chosen to turn their back on Christianity and that a faith based youth setting was not the right place for them.

Understanding

What was the main message? What did I understand was being said by the author; lecturer; practitioner etc… What argument was used to support their position?

The main message I was getting from Peter was that his personal values and beliefs were more important that his professional youth work values and principles. By selecting which young people he can work with and who are welcomed into his youth setting. That he personally felt faith based youth work was not the right environment for young people who id...

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... beliefs or identity? Most of us will be christened, baptised or welcomed in a different way into the church as infants and brought up in the religious belief of our family. So our religious/faith identity will come first and our identity with sexual orientation in many of us will not come into play until we are teenagers

The affect on someone's identity being dismissed or taken away from them can be devastating for the person or that your identity regarding faith is dismissed and taken away from you. Why do people label you as one identity?

Works Cited

Banks, S. 1999. Ethical Issues in Youth Work. Routledge: London

Sapin, K. 2013. Essential Skills for Youth Work. 2nd edition. Sage: London

Sercombe, H. 2010. Youth Work Ethics. New York: Sage

Weill, C. 2009. Nature's Choice: What Science Reveals about the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation. New York: Sage