Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

[redleghunter]

Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

Drew Brees recently partnered with Focus on the Family to promote ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day,’ appearing in a video in which he encouraged children to participate in the event Oct. 3.

The star New Orleans Saints quarterback immediately received push-back from left-leaning media outlets, ridiculing him for aligning with Focus on the Family, which is a socially conservative organization that believes in traditional marriage.

‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ has been taking place every year since 2014, moving students to “celebrate religious freedom and share God’s love with their friends.”

Brees’ video, which was all of 22 seconds, encouraged students to bring their bibles to school, and join the movement in which thousands of students have participated.

“Hey guys,” Brees says in the video, “one of my favorite verses in the Bible is 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we live by faith, not by sight.”

“So I want to encourage you to live out your faith on ‘Bring your Bible to School Day’ and share God’s love with friends,” Brees adds. “You’re not alone.”

The 22-second video has since then received flack from left-leaning publications who are bashing Brees for working with an organization that promotes traditional marriage.

What Are Critics Saying?

Newsweek wrote an article titled: “Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints Quarterback, Records Video Produced by Anti-Gay Group Focus on the Family.”

Out Magazine wrote another titled, “NFL Quarterback Appears in Commercial for Anti-Gay Extremists,” and Big Easy Magazine wrote, “Drew Brees Records Video for Anti-LGBT Religious Organization.”

The articles bashed Brees for his involvement, labeling Focus on the Family an anti-LGBT group.

“Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to ‘cure’ LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation,” Jenn Bentley of Big Easy Magazine wrote.

According to Focus on the Family, they support the belief in traditional, biblical marriage, which reserves marriage to be between a husband and wife.

“Many people with same-sex attractions choose not to identify as homosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual. Instead, their primary identification comes from their faith in Jesus Christ,” the Focus on the Family website details. “They identify as Christians, followers of Jesus and God’s children. And they choose to live according to biblical truths and values, reserving sexual expression for marriage between a man and a woman.”

“We understand that this may be a difficult struggle, requiring help and assistance from other Christians,” the website adds.

Big Easy Magazine took to Twitter following the video release, criticizing the quarterback for participating in the promotional, citing Focus on the Family’s support of “dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ practice.”

More at link:
Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

 

[Hammster]

Wow.

 

[redleghunter]

Wow.

And Focus in the Family does not do the “gay conversion” therapy that they are being accused of:

https://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/focus-family-promote-gay-conversion-therapy/

 

[GraceBro]

Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

Drew Brees recently partnered with Focus on the Family to promote ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day,’ appearing in a video in which he encouraged children to participate in the event Oct. 3.

The star New Orleans Saints quarterback immediately received push-back from left-leaning media outlets, ridiculing him for aligning with Focus on the Family, which is a socially conservative organization that believes in traditional marriage.

‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ has been taking place every year since 2014, moving students to “celebrate religious freedom and share God’s love with their friends.”

Brees’ video, which was all of 22 seconds, encouraged students to bring their bibles to school, and join the movement in which thousands of students have participated.

“Hey guys,” Brees says in the video, “one of my favorite verses in the Bible is 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we live by faith, not by sight.”

“So I want to encourage you to live out your faith on ‘Bring your Bible to School Day’ and share God’s love with friends,” Brees adds. “You’re not alone.”

The 22-second video has since then received flack from left-leaning publications who are bashing Brees for working with an organization that promotes traditional marriage.

What Are Critics Saying?

Newsweek wrote an article titled: “Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints Quarterback, Records Video Produced by Anti-Gay Group Focus on the Family.”

Out Magazine wrote another titled, “NFL Quarterback Appears in Commercial for Anti-Gay Extremists,” and Big Easy Magazine wrote, “Drew Brees Records Video for Anti-LGBT Religious Organization.”

The articles bashed Brees for his involvement, labeling Focus on the Family an anti-LGBT group.

“Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to ‘cure’ LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation,” Jenn Bentley of Big Easy Magazine wrote.

According to Focus on the Family, they support the belief in traditional, biblical marriage, which reserves marriage to be between a husband and wife.

“Many people with same-sex attractions choose not to identify as homosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual. Instead, their primary identification comes from their faith in Jesus Christ,” the Focus on the Family website details. “They identify as Christians, followers of Jesus and God’s children. And they choose to live according to biblical truths and values, reserving sexual expression for marriage between a man and a woman.”

“We understand that this may be a difficult struggle, requiring help and assistance from other Christians,” the website adds.

Big Easy Magazine took to Twitter following the video release, criticizing the quarterback for participating in the promotional, citing Focus on the Family’s support of “dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ practice.”

More at link:
Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

"If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed at the revelation of His glory ... (1 Peter 4:11-13)" Stand strong brother Drew.

 

[anna ~ grace]

And Focus in the Family does not do the “gay conversion” therapy that they are being accused of:

https://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/focus-family-promote-gay-conversion-therapy/

Yeah, their response didn't sound at all like gay conversion therapy.

 

[tulc]

And Focus in the Family does not do the “gay conversion” therapy that they are being accused of:

https://jimdaly.focusonthefamily.com/focus-family-promote-gay-conversion-therapy/

Well...not since it stopped making money for them of course:
Love Won Out - Wikipedia

Love Won Out, later known as True Story,[1][2] was an ex-gay ministry launched by Focus on the Family in 1998. It was founded by John Paulk. Its website's stated purpose was "to exhort and equip Christian churches to respond in a Christ-like way to the issue of homosexuality."[3] The mission statement read, "To provide a Christ-centered, comprehensive conference which will enlighten, empower and equip families, church and youth leaders, educators, counselors, policy-makers, and the gay community on the truth about homosexuality and its impact on culture, family, and youth."[4] Love Won Out was sold to a former affiliate Exodus International as a downsizing measure of Focus on the Family, which had a record profit loss of $6 million by August 2009.[5] In 2012, Exodus International also presented the conferences under the name True Story. On June 19, 2013, Exodus International President Alan Chambers announced the board of directors had voted unanimously to disband and close.[6] Alan Chambers offered an apology to the gay community and reversed his stance on the past teachings of Exodus International's ministry.

tulc(in case anyone was curious)

 

[redleghunter]

Well...not since it stopped making money for them of course:
Love Won Out - Wikipedia

tulc(in case anyone was curious)

That’s gay conversion therapy?

 

[tulc]

That’s gay conversion therapy?

I don't know, does this sound like it:
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/ge...when-we-talk-about-change-from-homosexuality/
it's from their web site.
tulc(thought it sounded an awful lot like it)

 

[redleghunter]

I don't know, does this sound like it:
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/ge...when-we-talk-about-change-from-homosexuality/
it's from their web site.
tulc(thought it sounded an awful lot like it)

It looks like they are giving godly advice.

Not anything different from what the Catholic Church teaches on celibacy if one has same sex attraction.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

Drew Brees recently partnered with Focus on the Family to promote ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day,’ appearing in a video in which he encouraged children to participate in the event Oct. 3.

The star New Orleans Saints quarterback immediately received push-back from left-leaning media outlets, ridiculing him for aligning with Focus on the Family, which is a socially conservative organization that believes in traditional marriage.

‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ has been taking place every year since 2014, moving students to “celebrate religious freedom and share God’s love with their friends.”

Brees’ video, which was all of 22 seconds, encouraged students to bring their bibles to school, and join the movement in which thousands of students have participated.

“Hey guys,” Brees says in the video, “one of my favorite verses in the Bible is 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we live by faith, not by sight.”

“So I want to encourage you to live out your faith on ‘Bring your Bible to School Day’ and share God’s love with friends,” Brees adds. “You’re not alone.”

The 22-second video has since then received flack from left-leaning publications who are bashing Brees for working with an organization that promotes traditional marriage.

What Are Critics Saying?

Newsweek wrote an article titled: “Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints Quarterback, Records Video Produced by Anti-Gay Group Focus on the Family.”

Out Magazine wrote another titled, “NFL Quarterback Appears in Commercial for Anti-Gay Extremists,” and Big Easy Magazine wrote, “Drew Brees Records Video for Anti-LGBT Religious Organization.”

The articles bashed Brees for his involvement, labeling Focus on the Family an anti-LGBT group.

“Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to ‘cure’ LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation,” Jenn Bentley of Big Easy Magazine wrote.

According to Focus on the Family, they support the belief in traditional, biblical marriage, which reserves marriage to be between a husband and wife.

“Many people with same-sex attractions choose not to identify as homosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual. Instead, their primary identification comes from their faith in Jesus Christ,” the Focus on the Family website details. “They identify as Christians, followers of Jesus and God’s children. And they choose to live according to biblical truths and values, reserving sexual expression for marriage between a man and a woman.”

“We understand that this may be a difficult struggle, requiring help and assistance from other Christians,” the website adds.

Big Easy Magazine took to Twitter following the video release, criticizing the quarterback for participating in the promotional, citing Focus on the Family’s support of “dangerous ‘conversion therapy’ practice.”

More at link:
Drew Brees Attacked for Promoting ‘Bring Your Bible to School Day’ with Focus on the Family

We wouldn't expect the devil to be silent about something like that and that he would lying spirits into the mouths of those he controls.

 

[redleghunter]

We wouldn't expect the devil to be silent about something like that and that he would lying spirits into the mouths of those he controls.

"Paul makes this clear in 2 Corinthians 10: 5, where he spells out the ultimate objective of the Truth War: “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” The battlefield is the mind; the goal is the absolute triumph of truth; the priceless spoils of conquest are souls won out of the bondage of sin; the outcome is our willing submission to Christ; the highest prize is the honor given to Him as Lord; and the ultimate victory is completely His." —— John MacArthur​

 

[Dave-W]

2 Timothy 3:1
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

 

[Yekcidmij]

I don't know, does this sound like it:
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/ge...when-we-talk-about-change-from-homosexuality/
it's from their web site.
tulc(thought it sounded an awful lot like it)

Are you against the methods promoted in that article? If so, what about those methods are you against?

 

[tulc]

Are you against the methods promoted in that article? If so, what about those methods are you against?

This thread isn't about what I do or don't believe, someone said Focus on the Family didn't promote conversion therapy, I pointed out they did believe in it until it started costing them money, then they didn't. But to this day they still get as close as they can with out it affecting their bottom line. If you'd like to discuss any of the stuff on their site you should start a thread about that in the appropriate forum.
tulc(hopes that helps)

 

[redleghunter]

Are you against the methods promoted in that article? If so, what about those methods are you against?

It seems they support providing counseling. Not what the pseudo narrative from the LGBTQ they want us to believe. Meaning people are assured success if they follow some 12 step program.

 

[creslaw]

It seems they support providing counseling. Not what the pseudo narrative from the LGBTQ they want us to believe. Meaning people are assured success if they follow some 12 step program.

Focus on the Family is continually slandered by those who do not accept Biblical teaching on marriage & sexuality, such as in the misleading & dishonest comment from the article in your OP:

“Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to ‘cure’ LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation,” Jenn Bentley of Big Easy Magazine wrote.
​

Over the past 50 years therapy for people with unwanted same sex attraction has evolved along with therapy for all other psychological conditions ... although ECT is still used for treating depression.

Before the ECT procedure, the person is given a general anaesthetic and a muscle relaxant. Electrodes are placed on one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) sides of the scalp and a small electric current is passed between these until a brief generalised seizure occurs. The person does not feel anything due to the anaesthetic, and does not convulse due to the muscle relaxant. (Beyond Blue)
​

Even though depression is treated with ECT, and gender dysphoria is treated by mutilating a person's genitalia, all without any outcry from the Left, therapy to help a person cope with unwanted same sex attraction is demonized and now is being made illegal.

 

[redleghunter]

Focus on the Family is continually slandered by those who do not accept Biblical teaching on marriage & sexuality, such as in the misleading & dishonest comment from the article in your OP:

“Focus on the Family supports and promotes the practice of ‘conversion therapy,’ which uses a combination of shaming, emotionally manipulative and traumatic stimuli, and physically painful stimuli in order to ‘cure’ LGBTQ+ people of their sexual orientation,” Jenn Bentley of Big Easy Magazine wrote.
​

Over the past 50 years therapy for people with unwanted same sex attraction has evolved along with therapy for all other psychological conditions ... although ECT is still used for treating depression.

Before the ECT procedure, the person is given a general anaesthetic and a muscle relaxant. Electrodes are placed on one (unilateral) or both (bilateral) sides of the scalp and a small electric current is passed between these until a brief generalised seizure occurs. The person does not feel anything due to the anaesthetic, and does not convulse due to the muscle relaxant. (Beyond Blue)
​

Even though depression is treated with ECT, and gender dysphoria is treated by mutilating a person's genitalia, all without any outcry from the Left, therapy to help a person cope with unwanted same sex attraction is demonized and now is being made illegal.

You just know that using the term “shaming” makes the “Big Easy” a partisan rag.