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We
would like this to be a comprehensive list. If you know of other
sites,
please suggest them here!
Note
that we do not necessarily agree with the philosophy of all the
ministries below. To find out what we believe, please check our web
site. If this does not answer your questions, you may use our
form to contact us with specific questions.
- Seventh-day
Adventist Position Statements on Homosexualit and Related
Subjects
- We have
collected the various official statements of the Seventh-day
Adventist church on this page on our site.
- AdventCircle Online
Community
- Our own community for Adventist family and friends of gays
and lesbians. This is a sub-list of the larger,
inter-denominational GLOWcircle
list. The Adventist list is reserved for strictly
Adventist concerns, and most of the conversation takes place
on the larger GLOWcircle list.
- Adventist Leaders Address
Homosexuality
- We have collected a number of articles, including those in
two issues of Ministry, the official Adventist
magazine for pastors.
- Adventist
Gay/Lesbian Ministry of the San Francisco Central Church
- We regret to report that this formerly official ministry to
gay and lesbian Adventists supervised by a church committee
is no longer functioning after administrative changes in the
San Francisco Central church. It used to offer customized
study questions for the Sabbath School lessons online for
gay and lesbian Adventists. We can only hope that another
urban church will take up the challenge to provide this sort
of support.
- GLADventist Online
Community
- Our own discussion list particularly for homosexually
oriented Seventh-day Adventist who believe that sexual
activity is to be confined to heterosexual marriage. Stories
and thoughts of GLADventist subscribers are found on the GLADventist
Index page.
- God's Rainbow
- Internet outreach formerly sponsored by the Adventist Gay
and Lesbian Ministries sponsored by the San
Francisco Central church. This site is now independent
and doesn't have much content yet. The webmaster,
Howard Holtz, has been in contact with Adventist leadership
at all levels, and we hope to see more content soon.
- SDAbridges
Online Community
- A place for those SDA's who are convinced that a monogamous
relationship is the best way to reconcile their Adventist
faith and their sexuality to inter-act with other members of
the Adventist church. The list focuses on spiritual, rather
than gender issues. See their stories
and thoughts.
- SDAKinship
International
- Most established gay advocacy group using the Seventh-day
Adventist name after winning a law suit brought against it
by the Seventh-day Adventist church. It teaches that
same-gender sexual activity is not condemned anywhere in the
Bible and seeks recognition for gay marriages on a par with
heterosexual marriages. Has outreach on most SDA college
campuses, with gay-friendly professors referring students to
the organization.
- SDA Womyn Friends
- Web site maintained by a SDAKinship supporter as "a
service to women who have or have had some connection with
Seventh-day Adventists who are gay, either by their own
background or that of their partners, friends, or family
members." Includes chat room, discussion board and list
of resources largely from the SDAKinship perspective, not
necessarily Adventist.
- Someone to Talk
To
- Ministry to Adventist family and friends of lesbians and
gays by Carrol Grady, aka Kate McLaughlin, author of My
Son, Beloved Stranger. Mrs. Grady has a wide circle of
friends within the Adventist gay community and has
been a speaker at two SDAKinship Kamp Meetings as well as at
various Adventist church functions. She understands by
personal experience the problems facing gay men and women
and their families. Archives
of her newsletter from 1996 to 1999 are online and
searchable through the search
box on our site. You can see a statement of Carrol's
current position at the end of the Epilogue
to her book.
- That Kind Can
Never Change!
- The web site with the same title as the book by Victor J.
Adamson (a pseudonym), a Seventh-day Adventist man with a
personal ministry. After a lengthy detour into gay life, he
is currently happily married to a warm, vibrant and
dedicated woman who "waited 32 years" for him to
ask her to marry him. He no longer considers himself
"gay" and writes from that perspective.
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