Hope for the LGBT Community and Everyone Else. (From a woman who knows.)

In light of some recent social discussions a friend sent me the clip below which is incredibly timely and pertinent for our day.  The speaker in the clip is an ex-lesbian and feminist scholar.  I’m particularly recommending her story for everyone trying to honestly discern truth verses myth in our modern cultural debate in Europe and the West over sexual identity and the subsequent ramifications.  Dr. Butterfield is a brilliant, rational thinking, and deeply theological woman.  In this lecture she gives some serious and loving answers to legitimate questions as she speaks with the experience of having come from the LGBT community and a post-modern world view.  I linked an article about Dr. Butterfield on my Face Book page several months ago, but decided to include her story here because of the way she so meticulously addresses the question at a root level in the lecture.  Here are at least four points that immediately came to mind when I reviewed the clip: (more…)