Comments for M. Scott Foster

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by M. Scott Foster

M. Scott Foster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:33:13 +0000

I’m taking my ball and going to work for 13 hours today. I won’t have time to respond to most comments. I barely have time to make this one. Also, I won’t respond to anything that disregards a clear statement from Scripture (homosexuality is sin).

I cannot let this thing run wild while I’m away.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Erika Martin

Erika Martin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:58:34 +0000

That’s a typical response. So, you’re taking your ball and going home? You left out the neener, neener to the rest of us fools.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Erika Martin

Erika Martin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:57:18 +0000

So, you’re saying that only boys can be turned effeminate due to a distorted relationship with their mothers, but girls can’t be turned masculine due to a distorted relationship with their fathers? It would seem that if the logic worked one way, it would also work in the other way. Not that I think either logic holds any water. I think it’s all BS.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by John Hensel

John Hensel — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:34 +0000

A close relationship between girls and their fathers will not make them a lesbian or “masculine” in the same way that being close to a mother will not make a son more effeminent. What Mike is saying is that when the relationship between a father his son or a mother and her son is misconstrued or distorted there is a higher likelyhood that the son will display characteristics and traits that are shared by boys that grow up to be homosexual men.

This is equally true with daughters as it is with sons.

Erika, Mike’s post is not talking about any of the things that you are talking about. His post is a word of caution to parents and potential parents to be aware of situations where homeschooling children has more danger to the health of the relationship between parent and son than a family that does not homeschool. It is also a call for fathers to be involved with their sons regardsless of their “artistic” demeanor.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by M. Scott Foster

M. Scott Foster — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:29:03 +0000

I’m going to close the comments. Why? Well, I’m not going to debate whether homosexuality is a sin or not. Scripture says it is. End of story. Anyone that exalts themselves over Scripture is an arrogant fool and I will not answer them according to their folly.

Here are a few things I didn’t say…

1) Home-schooling is bad
2) Homosexuality is new
3) Its all the mother’s fault

Now, whether my theory about the causes of homosexuality are sound is another issue entirely. I will not attach the “thus saith the Lord” to that hypothesis. It is my hypothesis which, like all hypothesis, started with a personal observation. The more I study, the more I see evidence that backs my hypothesis.

I will try to lay out more of this evidence in the coming weeks but, lets be honest, most of you don’t care because you reject what the word of God when it comes to homosexuality even at its most basic level.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Aaron Thomas

Aaron Thomas — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:40:05 +0000

Isaac favored Esau because he was a hunter and Rebecca favored Jacob. I think the tendency not to be able to relate to children who are different is as old as mud.

Comment on An Honest Read of Our Evangelistic Methods by UncleTaylorsAdvice

UncleTaylorsAdvice — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:28 +0000

“Go for (preach to) the mature Christians and the baby Christians will learn from them.” <– (I'm not making fun of this; I agree with it.)

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Erika Martin

Erika Martin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:56:05 +0000

So, on the opposite end of the spectrum, does this mean that close relationships between girls and their fathers make them lesbian and masculine girls? With the trend of patriarchal christianity going the way of purity balls, virginity covenants between fathers and daughters and the way that these same daughters are taught to submit to their fathers like their mother does (while also giving dad a foot rub, shaving his face at father/daughter retreats and being his “helpmeet in training”), by the same reasoning that you see young men becoming effeminate because of their relationships with their mothers, it would seem that it would work the other way for the daughters to become masculine and pre-lesbian.

By the way, people don’t “become” or “choose” homosexuality. They simply are.

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:41:25 +0000

As a teacher, I have worked with many different types of students, some formerly home-schooled, some not. In my experience, your assumptions about homeschooling by overbearing mothers equals effeminacy and/or homosexuality are completely unfounded. This is a blog, not a book, but using your incredibly subjective observations to draw a dramatic conclusions does not constitute research and could negatively influence how your readers view women and homosexual people.
Furthermore, being in an environment that is dominated by an overbearing man is just as harmful to any child as being raised by an overbearing woman. The way you choose to word and focus your post implies that
1. Women are to blame for homosexuality and 2. Being homosexual/effeminate is a bad thing

Comment on Home-schooling Homes and Homosexuality by Seth Studer

Seth Studer — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:07:07 +0000

What’s an example of “good research”? This blog treats the relationship between effeminacy and homosexuality (or what you call “prehomosexual tendencies”) as perfectly natural. Meanwhile, you quote Joseph Nicolosi, whose whole book uses a kind of light Freudian framework that hasn’t been part of mainstream psychology for decades. If this is, to you, an example of “good research,” well, maybe we’re better off sticking to personal observations and gut feelings.

And since we’re speculating: isn’t it possible that the reason homeschooled boys are more comfortable expressing their effeminacy because, in a public school setting, effeminacy tends to get beaten out of them? A boy who is effeminate – gay, straight, pregay, prestraight, whatever you want to call him – is automatically a target for bullying in public school. This wouldn’t be the case with a homeschooled kid, at least not as much. So that’s another possible explanation for this “trend” you observe…one that doesn’t rely on the all-too-common boogeymen of scary, overbearing mothers or insufficiently masculine fathers to explain.