Articles by Amy

Church, stop treating LGBTQ people as illegitimate children

June 2024

In 1969, a beautiful college sophomore had imbibed enough lies to be duped; she thought premarital sex was necessary to gauge compatibility. The boyfriend she had dated since high school was happy to oblige. This experiment yielded tangible results…

The “Respect for Marriage Act” Will Harm Children

October 2022

The law is a teacher, and the “Respect for Marriage Act” is a bad one. Enshrining legal lies about the truth of marriage harms all of society, most especially children…
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Monkeypox, Sexual Health, and the Limits of Medical Technology

Aug 2022

Our culture seems to think that almost no behavior is off limits, no matter how dangerous or even deadly, if engaged in for erotic reasons. We’ve forgotten the harsh…
Read More at Public Discourse

Suicidal Sweet Sixteen: A Reflection on Trans Youth Medicine

Sept 2021

Today, white-coated professionals tell parents of children with gender dysphoria: affirm your child’s trans identity right away or prepare for suicide. Are those really…
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Activists Amplified Transgenderism To Kids

April 2021

The whirlwind we now reap is filled with the fragmented identities of our sons and daughters who will acknowledge themselves to be neither…
Read More at The Federalist

Insuring Rights for “Wrong” Bodies

January 2021

As a recent British court decision correctly affirmed, the puberty blocking treatments being given to gender-dysphoric young people constitute experimental medicine…
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Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood

August 2020

Abigail Shrier’s new book is an outstanding investigative report on the diagnostic craze of rapid onset gender dysphoria that has swept over adolescent girls…
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Pressing Pause on the Global Transgender Youth Pandemic

June 2020

Before Covid-19’s pernicious spread, another health phenomenon had reached epidemic proportions and is still occurring on a global level. Unlike the virus…
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From Christians Formerly Identified as LGBTQ: “Thank You”

October 2019

I want you to know that your opposition strengthens and encourages people like me—Christians who have struggled with same-sex attraction. When we see Barronelle…
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Become A True Trans Ally: Walt Heyer’s Trans Life Survivors

March 2019

By sharing the stories of real people suffering real pain and struggling with enormous regret, Walt Heyer enables us to gain the first thing a person seeking to be…
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Articles Before 2019

What I Learned From Same-Sex Abuse Inside the Church

September 2018

My church mishandled my case. Yours doesn’t have to.
Read More at Christianity Today

My Same-Sex Attraction and My Brother’s Disease: On Suffering and Serenity

September 2016

Suffering can lead to serenity, if we respond to it with trust in a loving God who will make all things right. We must remember: Love would not allow what Love could not restore…
Read More at Public Discourse

Make Your Church a Safe Space for Christians with Same-Sex Attraction

November 2015

Recently, my dear friend Diane was lamenting the fact that there are few places for Christians who experience same-sex attraction and wish to be faithful to Christian teaching to deal openly and honestly with…
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The Wrong Kind of Rights: Same-Sex Marriage…

May 2015

In our culture, there is a chasm between two irreconcilable conceptions of the meaning and purpose of human sexuality and equality. For children most of all, the wrong kind of sexuality and equality…
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The Girl in the Tuxedo: Two Variations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

February 2015

Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did in the 1980s—but one important option is increasingly denied to them…
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Seven Things I Wish My Pastor Knew About My Homosexuality

Dec 2014

May I make two requests? Love me, but remember that you cannot be more merciful than God. It isn’t mercy to affirm same-sex acts as good. Don’t compromise truth; help me to live in harmony with it…
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