Author Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, who has criticized LGBTQ-friendly Christians as “heretical,” warns that terms used in the so-called “gay community” are not true. In a July 1 post titled, “I Don’t Have an LGBTQ Neighbor—and Neither Do You,” Butterfield called it delusional to describe people according to nonbiblical labels that imply “a different category of person.”
Writing at Clear Truth Media, Butterfield explained, “Do you have lesbian neighbors? No. You have neighbors. These beloved image-bearers of a Holy God have fallen into lusts of the flesh that wage war against God’s created order. But they are not a different kind of man or woman.”
Butterfield, 62, is a former professor who shed a “lesbian identity” and converted to Christianity. Now married to a pastor, she is the author of several books, including “Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age.”
Last fall, Butterfield labeled Dr. Preston Sprinkle a heretic for spreading “lies” about same-sex attraction. She also took aim at his Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender, in addition to organizations such as Revoice and Cru.
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Rosaria Butterfield: Christians Can’t ‘Compromise’
The term “sexual orientation” is a “modern invention” that “reflects a category mistake about what it means to be made in the Image of God,” Butterfield wrote. These “two competing worldviews about what it means to be human are on a collision course.”
According to the biblical worldview, God created us as male and female—in his image and for one another, with “Adam’s headship over Eve,” Butterfield explained. Mankind’s fall into sin “does not change what it means to be human.”
She then contrasted “God’s definition of personhood, identity, and experience” with that set forth by the American Psychological Association—which refers to attractions and behaviors. In that worldview, feelings determine who people are.
Being made in God’s image “bestows eternal dignity and, in Christ, liberates the captives,” Butterfield said, while being made by one’s sexual identity “enslaves captives to the idolatry of self.” It’s not possible for Christians to “agree to disagree” on this point, she said, because “the gospel is on a collision course with the category of homosexual orientation.”
Christians “must not compromise on orientation,” Butterfield emphasized. Because believers are on the frontline of war, “we must remain vigilant at our post until the Lord takes us home.”
Rosaria Butterfield: ‘No Such Thing as a Gay Person’
Bible verses such as Romans 12:4 offer “no escape clause for ‘gay people’ because there is no such thing as a gay person,” wrote Butterfield. “There is gay sex, gay political activism, and even gay culture. But people who believe they are gay must repent of indwelling sin and flee from the culture that says gay is who you are.”
