Kinship

[Gregory Matthews]

Kinship is an independent organization which is not a formal part of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination.  SDA members may have questions about it.  The link to the following article informs as to the history of Kinship and its objectives.  It is from the informational perspective that I am posting the following link.

https://spectrummagazine.org/news/2023/getting-know-sda-kinship-international-interview-floyd-poenitz

 

[Hanseng]

If I was a homosexual with an SDA background, looking for another homosexual with an SDA background, I would definitely connect with Kinship; otherwise, I would just check out Grindr.

[Hanseng]

Statement of Belief — CHANGED Movement

[Hanseng]

What Does Deuteronomy Say about Homosexuality? - TheTorah.com

[phkrause]

Great article GM.

[Hanseng]

A bit of history about Kinship: ~1980, I noticed an ad in the Advocate magazine for gay SDA to call a certain number in the Southeastern California conference. Being curious rather than gay, I went out there a few days later and met the man who had placed the ad. He was not an SDA himself. He had an affair with the [male] pastor of the SDA church in the area. The pastor, who was engaged to a woman, told her about it. She immediately went to the conference officials who, upon receiving this news, confirmed it with the pastor and terminated his employment. The man who told me this story was appalled by the rough treatment his pastor friend had received; consequently, he placed the ad in the magazine, in hope of providing support to other gay SDA who might be facing ostracism, termination, and the like. 

According to Ron Lawson, this man was one of three individuals who were running ads at that time. Not sure what became of the pastor. Never heard anything more about him, nor the man who had placed the ad. He was remembered in a Kinship article after his death.

[Hanseng]

Those interested in supporting Kinship or becoming an "ally" should be aware that their current president wants to see Pathfinder camporees used as a platform to introduce homosexuality, etc. to Adventist youth. Regarding camporees he said,  

"I was tempted to dream about attending [a camporee] and seeing how SDA Kinship could be a part and share with the youth that it is OK to be LGBTQ and Adventist."

This quote is a remark he made on a thread at Spectrum.

[Hanseng]

In case anyone thinks Kinship is kidding about introducing homosexuality to Adventist youth at Pathfinder Camporees, do some research on the gay subculture known on the street as "chickenhawks." These are individuals who prefer age discordant sexual relationships. Pedophiles fall into this category, although the gay community has, in the past, gone to great lengths to make a distinction between "them" and "us." As time goes on, the demarcation is becoming less distinct, hence the bravado of Kinship openly announcing its designs on SDA young people.

[Hanseng]

Sorry for the multiple posts on this thread; however, I am compelled to comment as someone who spent years serving this community during the AIDS crisis in the late 80s and early 90s. I was in West Hollywood and its environs nearly every day for a few years, putting in PICC lines, running TPN, teaching patients how to administer their own IV medications, managing infusion pumps, etc. I was tested twice for possible occupational exposure to HIV.  Prior to AIDS, one of the Kinship founders invited me to his home. I spent several hours chatting with him. Kinship, for some in its early days functioned, more or less, as a meat rack, i.e., a place for homosexuals to hookup for sex. These guys were no more lonely and misfit than hundreds of others roaming West Hollywood, Castro, or various other gay communities. They could also be found on SDA college campuses, looking for some quick sex with anyone foolish enough to go for it.  A few years prior to the first Kinship meeting in Prescott, Arizona Des Ford was unwelcomed to present the gospel at a camp meeting because he was too "controversial." The administration rejects the gospel due to the controversy it generates but welcomes men and women who have sex with each other, as if that's not controversial?

Homosexuals camping together overnight  are not legitimized by the presence of SDA "scholars.   SDA "scholars" are nothing more than beards for these people to disguise what they are really all about. How strange that Adventists carry on about the change of the Edenic Sabbath but let the homosexual community change the Edenic institution of heterosexual marriage.

A recent story was featured in an online SDA webzine. It described the background and work of an openly gay SDA pastor who worked in a church for many years. He is, no doubt, like many other homosexuals, a charming and likable person; nevertheless, through some ingenious arrangement, he pastored a large congregation for years as part of a team. Quite a few years ago, not far from where he worked, the same conference actually padlocked a church, shut it down over, among other things, money issues. Yet it allows a congregation to host a gay pastor. The time to sigh and cry for the abominations done in Jerusalem is upon us. 

When gay SDA missionaries start trying it on with potential converts in Africa, Asia, and other places, how is that going to play in places where sodomy is considered al crime? Will the denomination send representatives from the religious liberty department to rescue the offenders or simply wash their hands of it? Time to blow the trumpet folks, call sin by its right name, not legitimize it.

I'm not against homosexuals. I preferred their company to many SDA I know. I am against recalcitrant ones being admitted into church fellowship.