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These evangelicals find themselves in the "messy middle," Baylor University researchers Dr. Lydia Bean and Brandon Martinez argue, due to competing notions about how to engage with homosexuals : both wanting to show love and compassion for their gay neighbours, and wanting to remain loyal to the teachings of their faith. Those in the "messy middle," they find, are more similar to conservative than liberal evangelicals. Evangelicals sustain "two competing scripts about homosexuality," explain Bean, assistant professor of sociology, and Martinez, a doctoral student in sociology. First, evangelicals believe homosexual behaviour is sinful and harmful to those who engage in it. Second, evangelicals emphasize the importance of sharing their faith with others by building relationships in love and empathy. Expressing belief in the first can sometimes make the second more difficult because of the commonly expressed view that it is hateful to say that homosexual

Image via Wikipedia Among those invited by the Obama administration to attend its conference on bullying today is one of the most vitriolic leaders in the homosexualist movement, whose gay bullying initiative laid blame for the violence squarely at the feet of Christianity.  Multiple gay websites today highlighted Savage’s attendance at the conference. In a  video released Wednesday , the President and the First Lady introduced the summit as part of an effort “to make our schools and communities places where no one’s made to feel alone or afraid for being different.” Gay columnist Dan Savage posted on Seattle’s  The Stranger blog  Wednesday that he had been invited to the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention scheduled for Thursday, which the administration announced was attended by 150 advocates and policymakers. Savage praised a video taped by President Obama last year after a number of suicides by young people related to bullying incidents. Savage founded the It Get