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‘Gears of War’ Helped Me Come Out (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 16-08-2019 · By Spencer A. Klavan. Rose Wong. September 2019 Issue. Share. I came out to my dad while we were playing Spider-Man 3 on PlayStation 2. People ask me if … 16-08-2019How Gears of War helped me come out(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});I came out to my dad while we were playing Spider-Man 3 on PlayStation 2. People ask me if it was hard—he’s a political conservative and a Christian, and they wonder if I was afraid he would condemn me. I wasn’t. My father is an artist from a family of New York intellectuals. On social issues, he takes a laissez-faire stance: Live and let live, just don’t hurt anyone. I was pretty sure he’d react all right.But it was still hard, because coming out to your dad is hard. Sons want to be like their fathers—they just do—and fathers want to see their sons become men. Marrying a nice girl and getting her good and pregnant is part of that, just like playing catch in the backyard is. He teaches and shows, you watch and learn, and a vision of your future life emerges, a picture of successful manhood that is in some ways the most cherished thing you and your dad share. At the very least, that vision would have to be radically reconfigured once I told him I’d only ever had romantic feelings for other boys. I was 16. We were playing Spider-Man 3, and somehow, that made it easier.Video games were something we always did together—half an hour or so every weeknight. The normalcy of that ritual was comforting to me. The game also gave us something to focus on, so we wouldn’t have to look each other in the eye. I still felt icky using the word gay about myself (“I’m … not straight” is what I said). It would have been intolerable to tell him face-to-face; I almost certainly would have choked up, as I had while telling my mom earlier that day. Coming out felt emasculating enough. Crying would have been utter humiliation.He took it great, as I’d predicted, but I think we were both glad to have something in front of us that we could look at while we talked. The task of swinging on webs through Spider-Man’s pixelated streets absorbed enough of our attention that, looking at him with my peripheral vision, I could tell him this raw truth.Men are good at relating to each other in this way. We get along well when there’s a project in front of us—when we’re side by side looking at some third thing. All of the classic “male bonding” activities are like this—when you’re hunting, or working on a car, or shooting free throws, you can look together at the deer, or the transmission, or the basket, and talk. The common objective gives you something to talk about, and not having to face each other means you don’t have to lay the full weight of your emotions on each other.I suspect that’s why so many of my closest male friendships have evolved at least in part around gaming. My three best buddies in high school all played. As grunty teenagers to whom conversation didn’t come easy, we could spend hours on the Nintendo GameCube in my family’s back room. After my parents, they were among the first people I came out to, and boy was that scary: What if they thought I had a crush on one of them?They didn’t. They were in fact models of maturity. It was my first time really being vulnerable with them, and they showed themselves to be the stand-up guys they have remained ever since.After what felt to me like an explosive revelation, the routines of our friend group took on new significance. Wandering around town, going to action movies, calling one another gross names—the mere fact that we kept doing that stupid stuff showed me I was still their pal.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});That’s another important feature of male friendship, I think: the unspokenness of it. Your bros show up for you without calling attention to it, and you never have to thank them. In fact, they’d probably prefer if you didn’t, otherwise things might get awkward. My high-school friends demonstrated their care for me in a thousand tiny ways, most of them involving swift and gruesome death at their digital hands.That they didn’t go easy on me may be what I appreciated most. They schooled me at Halo and shot my head clean off in Gears of War. They continued to give me endless shit, too. Verbal abuse is another way to show affection indirectly, and we were ruthless because (though we would never have said it) we loved each other. Being gay was another thing for them to make fun of me about, the way I made fun of them for having acne or being short.Our verbal roughhousing was egalitarian: One of us had obsessive-compulsive disorder; we made fun of him for how long he spent going back over every level to pick up all the ammo. One of us was a first-generation immigrant; we used to say that he couldn’t understand English when he got a game’s instructions wrong. And I know how this sounds, but I would have been devastated if I hadn’t gotten called faggot a couple of times. It was how I knew my friends weren’t going to treat me differently, and that meant everything was going to be okay.That kind of insensitive banter has fallen out of fashion; in some circles it has become anathema. I get it. Kids can be cruel, and bullying can have terrible consequences. I understand the impulse to defuse it at all costs. But in my own case, policing schoolyard taunts would have been counterproductive. Goading one another was part of how my friends and I were able to connect. You couldn’t have stopped us without blocking off one of our main routes to true friendship.In the past 50 years, Americans have moved from stigmatizing homosexuality to tolerating or even celebrating it. When progressives tell that story, they often cast straight, cisgender males as the villains: Change would have come sooner if society weren’t so hidebound with outdated notions of manhood. We should therefore expunge traditional forms of masculinity from our public life so gay people can be liberated, along with women and anyone else who might feel alienated. Video games, according to that narrative, are breeding grounds of the boorishness and exclusivity that can make maleness so harmful.None of that rings true for me. Like everything else, video games and masculinity can go wrong—if unchecked, they can foster aggression or even violence. But those are corruptions of things that are, to me, inherently good. The playful belligerence, the bravado, and the intense competition with which my friends and I gamed together weren’t obstacles to our acceptance of one another; they were how we formed and expressed that acceptance. I know plenty of other guys who came out as gay, or bi, or trans with a controller in hand. For many of us, gaming is a way of talking and relating to other men that feels normal and relaxed—a way to be one of the guys while still finding space to open up.My boyfriend, Josh, is a gamer too. He and I have been separated by the Atlantic Ocean for much of our relationship, and playing together online is one of the ways we deal with the distance. We spent a formative few months playing Diablo III, a collaborative game in which you slay undead demons. Most of the time we played with two other guys, who are also a couple. I’d stumble to my laptop in the dark at 5 a.m. in England, while Josh and our friends would settle in at 9 p.m. in Los Angeles. Over a four-way Skype connection, we’d alternate between strategizing and small talk.Sometimes, as the hours wore on, we’d find ourselves tackling tougher subjects: our dissatisfactions at work, or our fears about coming out to folks who might not respond well. We joked that we were taking down CGI demons in the game and personal demons in our conversations, helping one another defeat whatever we were facing, online or in real life. These bizarre and distinctly modern get-togethers were like virtual double dates—part hangout, part support group, part romance. We called ourselves “The Boys Who Fight Hell.”(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Josh and I also started playing online with my father, so that the two most important men in my life could get to know each other. I couldn’t help thinking back to that day playing Spider-Man 3, when I had told my dad the secret I feared might change everything. 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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});14-07-2019 · MOSCOW, Idaho -- A college co-founded by Reformed theologian Douglas Wilson is being questioned after inviting Andrew Klavan, a crime/thriller novelist and screenwriter for the pro-life ""Gosnell ... 14-07-2019MOSCOW, Idaho — A college co-founded by Reformed theologian Douglas Wilson is being questioned after inviting Andrew Klavan, a crime/thriller novelist and screenwriter for the pro-life “Gosnell” movie, to speak to high school students as part of an event teaching youth how to “engage the culture” for Christ.Although unrelated to his topic of discussion, the controversy surrounds Klavan’s defense of homosexuality, as he has stated that while marriage is between a husband and wife, he believes that “loving” and monogamous relationships outside of the Divine design don’t “offend God,” may not be sinful (more recently stating that “instinctively” he believes they are not) and that the Church should make allowance for same-sex “sexual companionship.”The concerns do not involve any suggestion that New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, which is hosting its annual “Called” conference July 15-20, would share Klavan’s views. The matter rather involves Klavan being presented as a Christian — being purportedly invited to share his testimony and talk about working in Hollywood from a Christian perspective, while also publicly posting beliefs that are significantly at odds with Scripture and could lead men to eternal damnation.The Bible warns in1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that those who engage in unrepentant homosexuality will not inherit the kingdom of God. In a recent blog post following the controversy, which originated from an article published by the polemics site Pulpit & Pen, Wilson reiterated that he “selected Klavan’s testimony as [his] book of the month in 2017,” and still believes that it is “a great book” — even now being made aware of his views.Wilson, an author and speaker, addressed the issue of homosexuality in his 2016 book “Same Sex Mirage,” writing that“[h]omosexual rights are about sexual liberty — but only superficially. Primarily, gay marriage is about the right to control.”(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});During an exclusive interview with Christian News Network,it was further learned that while Klavan believes that Jesus is the way to Heaven, he is open to the possibility that those outside of Christianity might still be saved as he does not know exactly “how” Christ might save someone.He also affirmed that his usage of profanity, including in the 2018 film “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer” — which injects a number of curse words and one utterance of the Lord’s name in vain — is purposeful in order to show the world as it really is, not as it should be.THE CONFERENCENew Saint Andrews’ “Called” conference is stated to be an event “that will challenge Christian high school students to become the next generation of cultural leaders.” It is geared toward youth ages 15-19 and features a number of speakers, including President Ben Merkle and Wilson, the pastor of Christ Church of Moscow, along with two other pastors.Last year’s event likewise featured a segment on “Film and Writing,” as Nate Wilson, Wilson’s son and a published fiction writer, spoke to teens. This year, Klavan was asked to share with attendees, mostly in light of his work on the “Gosnell” film.As a best-selling author, Klavan’s crime and suspense novels include “Werewolf Cop,” “A Killer in the Wind,” “True Crime,” “Damnation Street” and “Empire of Lies.” He has been endorsed by fellow horror and fantasy novelist Stephen King, and is a two-time Edgar Award winner.Klavan has also been involved in the scripting of a number of films and television dramas, such as“One Missed Call,” “Don’t Say a Word,” “Dark Hearts” and “NYC Underground.” His“Gosnell” film tells the true story of convicted Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who is serving life in prison after a police bust into his “House of Horrors” revealed that he had killed numerous babies — found in freezers and jars — by snipping their spines.The movie, which was shown in theaters nationwide this past October and exposed the evils of the notorious abortionist, depicts detectives shocked by the horrifying discovery and chronicles the effort by prosecutors to put Gosnell behind bars.Klavan — who hosts the politically conservative “Andrew Klavan Show” via Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire — told Christian News Network that he opposes abortion and believes that it is an abomination, although “good people” may obtain an abortion in being deceived. He said that he is hopeful that the matter will soon be returned to the states.“The idea that this is not a human being with a right to life is absurd and completely inarguable,” he said.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Klavan advised during the interview — and also outlined on a his podcast this week — that New Saint Andrews College had invited him in to share about his conversion to Christianity as a former secular Jew, as well as to speak about “Christians working in Hollywood.”“The reason we invited Klavan [is] we’re trying to focus on engaging the world with a Christian worldview,”college President Ben Merkle also explained.However, he later stated that Klavan was brought in solely to address the topic of abortion in light of his work on the “Gosnell” film, remarking, “I appreciate the use of media to tackle what I think is one of the preeminent issues of our day.”(Video) Spencer Klavan on His Relationship with His Dad Andrew Klavan and His Husband JoshIt is not clear whether New Saint Andrews narrowed the scope of Klavan’s talk to any degree after learning of his position on other issues, or whether Klavan still plans to share his testimony with the students as asked.“The reason that we invited Klavan to speak at ‘Called’ was to hear him on the subject of abortion,” Merkle simply wrote in a letter to Pulpit & Pen after it published an article expressing concern about the selection. “He wrote the screenplay for the film ‘Gosnell’ and we wanted to hear from him about the challenge of engaging our culture through film on such a controversial subject.”When asked if he considers Klavan to be a Christian, Merkle responded in the affirmative. However, when the subject was revisited, he simply stated, “I appreciate his work on ‘Gosnell’ and fighting abortion.”JUDGE NOT?As Klavan is a former secular Jew who works with an Orthodox Jew, Christian News asked if he believes all Jews and those from other religious backgrounds need to hear the gospel and come to Christ. Klavan said that he believes Jesus is the way as outlined in John 14:6, but is “not sure what the salvation process is from God’s perspective” and feels that men should “judge not” another man’s relationship with God.“I [concur] with C.S. Lewis who said we know that you can only be saved through Jesus Christ, but we don’t know how Jesus Christ can save,” he said. “This is a very important fact to me. I get exactly zero votes on who’s saved and who gets into Heaven. And so, I feel that is not my job. My job is to love God and to love my neighbor. … My job is not to say, ‘You get in. You don’t get in.'”Klavan, who was baptized as Episcopalian but now attends a Presbyterian church, opined that a person doesn’t know “what another man’s relationship to God is,” and that “God has a way of saving people that goes beyond anything I can imagine.”(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});“[W]e don’t know what it means to get to Heaven through Jesus,” he continued. “I believe [the Bible] entirely, but I’m not sure exactly what it looks like from [God’s] perspective. And I’m completely willing to surrender to His perspective and let things be a mystery that I simply have no vote on at all.”Klavan said that he has joked with his friend, Ben Shapiro, that he is going to “smuggle him into Heaven in a suitcase.”“I wish that Ben could see what I see and experience the joy in Christ that I experience, … but I’m not going to sit there and tell him what God thinks of him,” he outlined. “I think that is exactly what the command to ‘judge not lest ye be judged’ means. It means you do not know what another man’s relationship to God is.”“And I feel that way about Ben,” Klavan continued. “He’s a good man; he does good work. I would love for him to find the joy I have, but I hope that God is with him and I believe that God has a way of saving people that goes beyond anything I can imagine.”When asked if he believes men must be born again, he said that he does, but “to me, it’s really important to have the humility say, ‘Where I have no voice, I have no vote.’ I surrender the entire process to God and my only job is to love my neighbor who is a Jew and love my neighbor who is not a Jew, and in doing so, feel that I’m loving the image of God.”“The judgment, the salvation, is God’s job and I leave it to Him,” Klavan said.Merkle told Christian News that he disagrees with Klavan’s open view of salvation, and would not put him up as a Bible teacher in front of the students. However, he said that the remarks do not mean that Klavan is not saved himself.“I’m glad that all of us are saved by Christ and not by our understanding of Christ,” he stated.When asked if he means that one does not have to understand the gospel to be saved by the gospel, Merkle affirmed, “If the entrance to Heaven is a theology exam, we’re all toast.”KLAVAN ON HOMOSEXUALITYChristian News Network also asked Klavan about a video he posted to social media last year, in which he outlined that he believes God created sex for marriage between a man and a woman, but added that just because something is done outside of the created purpose, a deviation could still be swallowed up by a “greater good” as per Aristotelian philosophy.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});“It seems to me that even though the center of human life is a man and a woman coming together to create children, there is room for life to exist outside of the center,” he said in the clip.“And it seems that if you get rid of all the other sins that destroy people: the promiscuity, the infidelity, the hurtfulness, use of force and betrayal — you get rid of all of that and you’re just left with two people of the same sex loving each other for life, it seems to me that their sexual urge could be subsumed into the greater good, even though you’re not using it for procreation, it can be subsumed into the greater good of your affection for one another.”Klavan also wrote in a 2010 article in Ricochet, in which he commented on a Jewish rabbi’s op-ed on homosexuality, “I don’t agree that homosexuality offends God (if it did, He wouldn’t let them write all the good show tunes) …I was also taken aback by the idea … that homosexuality is ‘the greatest threat to marriage and the family.’ Comes as a surprise to me. Frankly, the greatest threat to my shockingly blissful marriage has always been heterosexuality — namely mine and its indiscriminate attractions.”“I’m kind of libertarian about this. I don’t see why it’s any of my business. I don’t see who it hurts. I don’t see it’s necessarily harmful to society,” Klavan told Christian News Network this week. “And I don’t entirely understand … why this has become the central question of [the Church]. … This is a thing that Jesus never mentioned. That doesn’t necessary mean that He believed in it; it just means that the word of God, in the time He had on earth, didn’t bring this up.”When Christian News noted that Jesus said “a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife,” Klavan agreed that Christ placed male-female marriage at the center, but said that he is unsure whether anything outside of that is sinful or just “off-center.”“I don’t know if that separates you from God,” he acknowledged. Kavlan said that a homosexual who “feels degraded by his actions should probably taken that to God and straighten that out,” but if a person finds that the only way they can experience love is with the same sex, “then maybe that’s not a sin. I mean, maybe that’s something where God says, ‘You’ve got a bad break and at least you’re not being promiscuous and you’re not doing these other things.'”He stated that he finds its prejudicial for churches to have support groups for the divorced but to expel those engaged in homosexuality. Klavan said that he doesn’t believe the Church should make same-sex “marriage” a sacrament, but hopes — as he remarked in last year’s video clip, that churches will “start letting people have the consolation of sexual companionship if they can’t have it with the opposite sex.”“I am not convinced that gay marriage is a sacrament, but I do believe in a world in which you can get a no-fault divorce, or in which you can have a relationship with a woman and it’s not marriage [and] you can sue each other for child support if you break up, I believe that gay relationships should be covered under those laws,” he stated.Klavan wanted to be clear, however, that homosexuality is not one of his main talking points, but will provide his views when asked. He also noted that he does draw the line with some aspects, advising that he left an Episcopalian church because it “interweaved theology with left-wing politics until the two were indistinguishable” and hoisted pride flags outside of the building (he opposes pride). Klavan also does not support the work of homosexual activists or the increasing “incursion into schools.”In response to the controversy and his interview with Christian News, Klavan provided further commentary on his podcast this week, noting that Romans 1 is often cited in regard to homosexuality and that he doesn’t believe the writings of the Apostle Paul are inerrant as he is “not Jesus.” He pointed to the Scriptures about women not being permitted to teach and men having long hair, remarking, “I don’t believe those things.”(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Klavan said that he doesn’t think Paul’s writings are meant to “lock us into First Century morality,” including surrounding how to interpret his lamentation of men “burning with lust toward one another” and “leaving the natural use of the woman.”“My instinct is that, no, homosexuality is not a sin per se. My instinct is that a man in a loving relationship with another man — a stable, loving, non-promiscuous relationship with another man — will be able to stand before the throne of God,” he stated. “[But] don’t take my word for it because I don’t get a vote.”Listen to Klavan’s remarks here beginning at 41:00.Merkle told Christian News Network that he believes Klavan’s views on homosexuality are “confused and extremely wrong-headed,” and that a panel discussion during the event — in light of the revelation — will notate the difference in beliefs between New Saint Andrews and Klavan. He said that he believes it is important for Christians to preach about the sin of homosexuality and warn them of Hell.He noted, however, that he similarly has both agreement and disagreement with the writings of — for example — C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, and said of Klavan, “I don’t believe I’m given authority in Scripture to say that because somebody is confused on that, that means that they’re not going to Heaven. … I would be slow to anathematize someone like that.”Merkle said that if a person were personally unrepentantly engaged in homosexuality, he would not invite them as a speaker, but it is “slightly different” for Klavan, because “he’s one who is tolerating it in his beliefs” and “our intention is to tell him, ‘We believe you’re wrong on that’ and to make that clear.”“If Mr. Klavan was going to talk about a positive view of homosexuality without being opposed, then that would be a problem,” he outlined. “I think we need to show our kids [attending the event] how to walk through these conversations and I think that to fail to do so is very naive.”PROFANITY, SEX AND VIOLENCE IN MEDIAChristian News Network asked Klavan if he has a stance on using profanity in film, noting that there were a number of instance of foul language in the Gosnell movie. He said that he includes profanity because that is how the person would customarily speak and he tries to depict situations as close to reality as possible.“I believe that an artist’s job is to show the world as it really is, not as it’s supposed to be. I believe God is the God of the real world; He’s not the God of Candyland,” he stated. “Bad guys and cops talk in a certain way. I think that only by representing a the real world can you represent the real God.”(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});“I know that a lot of people disagree with this; I get letters about it every day. I write crime novels. I write books about very bad guys. They talk the way they talk, and I represent them the way they talk,” Klavan continued. “I try not to go out of my way to have people curse, but when I know that’s what someone would say, when it sounds ridiculous any other way, that’s what I do.”Klavan said that with his most recent book, “Another Kingdom,” he realized that Christians might enjoy the story, and so he removed the profanity. However, in reading the text minus the profanity, he felt that it was “absurd” and “did not sound like real life at all.”“And so, I put the cursing back in,” Klavan advised.See AlsoPreise in Kroatien Juli 2022 Preise in Restaurants, fuer Speisen und Getränke, Transport, Kraftstoff, Appartements, Hotels, Lebensmittel, Kleidung, WährungTélécharger Food & Drink Infographics. Le guide visuel des plaisirs
culinaires PDF eBook En Ligne Simone Klabin;Julius WiedemannFood and drink - Project 1999 WikiDesigner city unlimited moneyHe further explained that one of his favorite TV series is “The Sopranos” because although it is full of profanity, sex and violence, it shows the consequences of the living a mob lifestyle. He said that such is his view on books and film — pointing to philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer — that creating movies with all optimism is unhelpful and “nothing sells God less than happy talk fantasies.”“‘[T]he Sopranos’ is full of nudity, it’s full of cursing, it’s full of violence, and I feel it’s truly one of the moral works of art that came of those years. It’s a vision of God’s moral order being violated by the gangsters in front of you,” Klavan stated.“I love the Sopranos because … it shows you not just just violence, but it shows you the appeal of violence, it shows you the joy of cruelty. It also shows you that it is happening in a moral context and there is a price to pay at the deepest level,” he continued. “And that to me is what art is about. Art is not supposed to be just Candyland happy talk that makes you feel good about the fact that you went to church on Sunday. That, to me, is absurd. It’s the deepest, most horrific facts of life that lead you to God.”He also pointed to the late movie critic Pauline Kael, who, in being asked about her view on sex and violence in the media, replied, “That’s what stories are.” According to an article by The Economist, Kael “loved the sex, the violence and the exploding heads she saw in the work of Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman.”Klavan noted, however, that he does draw the line at pornographic material, advising that he has rejected work that would be classified as “torture porn,” as well as when the filmmaker seems to be “on the side of the evildoer.”Many of Klavan’s published works are action-packed crime novels or thrillers involving frightful plots of death and survival. Some of his more recent writings add faith to the mix as he says that he now feels compelled to include “some aspect of the supernatural” in his work, as opposed to the days when his characters existed in a “relativistic universe.”Klavan’s book “Empire o" - https://www.affordablecebu.com/
