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There is no cost and no subscription requirement. by [Patheos](https://time.com/author/patheos/) ## Patheos Contributor Aug 21, 2014 6:45 PM UTC by [Patheos](https://time.com/author/patheos/) ## Patheos Contributor Aug 21, 2014 6:45 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/08/21/christian-writer-says-its-hard-to-imagine-vicky-beeching-is-gay-because-men-find-her-attractive/) _originally appeared on_ [_Patheos_](patheos.com)_._ Last week, U.K. Christian singer **Vicky Beeching** won some queer friends — and lost some Christian ones — when she came out as gay in an [interview with The Independent](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/vicky-beeching-star-of-the-christian-rock-scene-im-gay-god-loves-me-just-the-way-i-am-9667566.html). Right off the bat, Beeching crushed the notion that you can’t be simultaneously gay, Christian, _and_ content with yourself. In an interview with notorious homophobe **Scott Lively**, she [shot down every one of his bigoted remarks](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/17/watch-recently-out-christian-singer-smacks-down-anti-lgbt-activist-on-live-tv/), including his suggestion that she look to God to “change” herself. --- > “” --- Beeching is easily a role model for LGBT people (Christian and otherwise) who need the validation and affirmation they don’t get from most churches. That’s why it’s so upsetting that **Ed Vitagliano**, a writer for the Christian site _Charisma News_, is not only “disappointed” in Beeching’s coming out, but claims [she’s “broken” for saying it](http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/45075-vicky-beeching-and-the-reason-so-many-christians-are-coming-out-as-gay). First, Vitagliano states that he loves homosexuals. It’s literally his first sentence: “I love homosexuals.” He “feels compassion toward them,” he says later, because he simply can’t imagine what it would have been like to have a crush on a boy as a kid. Then, he tests my ability not to throw my computer out a window by saying it’s hard to imagine Beeching is gay _because men find her attractive_: --- > “” --- What’s truly offensive is his stream-of-consciousness attempt at explaining the origins of homosexuality. To preserve its horridness, here’s the bulk of his rant: --- > “” --- His conclusion isn’t new, but that doesn’t make it any less awful. He’s claiming, as so many do, that love, relationships, and basic human existence have no significance beyond reproduction. Never mind that most LGBT people are still physically capable of producing offspring (and they do); Vitagliano’s perspective is that _nothing about us_ as human beings matters except our ability to pop out kids. Personal experiences? Nope. Emotions? Glitch in the system. Would he use this logic to call elderly different-sex couples broken? Or those who can’t have their own children? Actually, he might. He goes on to compare homosexuality to blindness, both “conditions” that make a person _broken_. He says this over and over: --- > “” --- If by “we are all broken,” he means that we all deal with unique challenges over the course of our lives, then yes, we are all broken. But my fear is that he’s being far more literal than that. He perceives LGBT people — and apparently blind people, and people who are paralyzed, and who knows who else — as somehow unable to live and exist freely, happily and, yes, _wholly_. And he shames people who embrace their differences, an accusation that I can only assume extends beyond LGBT people, but also to other groups of people he considers “broken.” --- > “” --- (For the record, I don’t see Vitagliano standing up to proudly claim his own “brokenness” the way Beeching and so many others have. But that’s beside the point.) While being gay does bring some people hardship, asserting that it will inherently affect a person’s quality of life — or worse, take away from their very worth as a person — does nothing except drive more LGBT people to deny their true selves, resent and loathe their feelings, and, as Beeching said, live a lie. We are more than the function of our bodies. I don’t know what’s taking so many people so long to realize it. Vitagliano claiming that he feels “compassion toward homosexuals” is an outright lie. It’s gravely offensive to me, to Vicky Beeching, to my fellow queer folks, and even to Christians that he would dare say it. [_Camille Beredjick_](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/author/camille/) _runs an LGBT news blog at_ [_gaywrites.org_](http://gaywrites.org/)_._ _Read more from Patheos:_ * [Could You Listen to an Angry Black Jesus? Perverting White Theology in the U.S.](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mercynotsacrifice/2014/08/20/could-you-listen-to-an-angry-black-jesus/) * [Think the Duggars Are Quaint? Think Again. I Grew up that Way.](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2014/08/an-open-letter-to-duggar-defenders/) * [Supporting “Team Israel” and the Military Diminishment of Judaism](http://www.patheos.com/Topics/2014-Religious-Trends/Jewish/The-Military-Diminishment-of-Judaism-Shalom-Goldman-08-20-2014.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3154417/yes-you-can-be-gay-and-still-be-attractive-to-the-opposite-sex/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3154417/yes-you-can-be-gay-and-still-be-attractive-to-the-opposite-sex/"},"headline":"Yes, You Can Be Gay and Still Be Attractive to the Opposite Sex","datePublished":"2014-08-21T18:45:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:05.197Z","description":"This article originally appeared on Patheos. 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