A Queer Thing Happened to America has been out for 2 months now, and feedback continues to come in (see here for previous coverage of the book). A review of the book was posted by Christian commentator Bill Muehlenberg on his site on May 16th. Below is a section from it:
All in all, this book is a devastating rebuttal of the homosexualist agenda. It is filled with many hundreds of quotations from the homosexual press, from homosexual activists, and from reputable medical and scientific journals. It is one long volume allowing the other side to speak for itself, condemning itself in the process.
There are very few people who are still qualified to write a book like this today. One needs to be a careful scholar, a person of courage and conviction, aware of social trends and movements, filled with God’s love and compassion, and dedicated to telling truth in the public arena, even when it is very costly to do so.
Fortunately Michael Brown fully meets these qualifications. Thus his new book can be recommended without reservation. It deserves the very widest hearing. Well done Dr Brown.
The Gay Christian Movement Watch blog discussed the book as well:
In April, just a month after Dr. Brown interviewed with Sid Roth, the California Senate passed Senate Bill 58. This legislation would require California public schools to add gay history to its already overcrowded curriculm. This bill is now waiting to be approved by the California State Assembly. A Queer Thing is Always Happening in California that is for sure… This is further confirmation of what Dr. Michael Brown has spoken in his interview and written about in his book.
With regard to negative feedback, gay activist sympathizer Kathy Baldock did a lengthy review of each chapter on her blog, Canyonwalker Connections. A response from Dr. Brown was posted here a few days ago. Below is a section from his response:
Kathy continues,
I think AQTHTA manipulates the facts, presents the worst of situations, travels to the fringes to find the extremes and interjects damaging oddball situations and thinking to horribly skew and demonize an entire class of people, the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. And, the cover is wildly offensive.
To the contrary, I did not go to the fringes or cherry pick but rather gave a fair representation of the whole, as much as possible, with constant qualifying remarks so as to avoid any stereotyping. And there is not a single fact cited that has been manipulated. As for the cover, I understand that Kathy finds it wildly offensive, but we surveyed many people from all walks of life – including gays and lesbians – and the cover was quite popular with almost all of them. Had we consistently heard from people that it was wildly offensive – as opposed to eye-catching and inviting – we would have used a different cover.
Gay activist website Ex-Gay Watch posted an article concerning the book in which the author is assured that they know what the quality and veractiy of the contents will be without reading it, saying:
Brown and his supporters will probably protest that I haven’t yet read the book. I know enough of Brown, the movement he represents, and what I’ve read about the book so far to confidently predict what kind of thing it contains and how accurate it is. I’ve based my comments only on what I know so far, and I’m not building up my hopes of finding anything different in the book itself.
The feedback is, to this point, to be expected. Conservative Christian commentators are sympathetic to the book and its claims, while pro-gay commentators are dismissive of its contents and the points it and Brown are making. What will be of greater interest to me personally will be to see if a few key people will get hold of a copy of the book, lay hold of its contents, and seek to change the course of our nation through the means given to them, with regard to sexuality, gender distinctions, and covenantal marriage in law and culture.
Marcus French is Editor of Voice of Revolution, and also helps produce the daily radio show, The Line of Fire. Contact him at editor@voiceofrevolution.com.
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I haven’t yet read the book but I did hear Dr. Brown recently on a talk show. Two thumbs up to Dr. Brown! There are certain Biblical lines that should not be crossed and this is definitely one of them. Tolerance is acceptance and far too many Americans have become tolerant in regard to this topic. And there should not be one member left in the Presbyterian denomination. I’ll go to war with Dr. Brown 24/7!
Michael Brown’s book is not only the opposite of the findings of any professional medical or psychological association, it is so extreme and unfair that no conservative Christian publisher would touch it with a ten foot pole. It is self-published because it does not merit professional publication. Anyone who takes unprofessional research as Gospel truth was already convinced before reading a single page. Brown’s reviewers reveal their man is only speaking to the choir.
There is nothing in this lengthy screed to convince moderate minds, let alone liberal Christians. He does not delve into the millions of happy and well-adjusted lives of gay Christians who are church members, musicians, ministers and even bishops. There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world and if 2% are GLBT, that is over 4 million gay Christians worldwide. Brown never speaks with gay Christian leaders.
Brown never speaks of gay people as people; he speaks of them en masse as part of some vast, ominous-sounding conspiracy he dubs “the homosexualist agenda.” By adding the “ist” he reveals his own bias as the premise and foundation upon which he builds. Anyone who actually knows gay people realizes their agenda is simply one word: Equality.
#3 reading the medical history of HIV in African nations has an established record which questions your conclusions. And, a history of the American Psychological Association on the subject of homosexuality is quite revealing of its own schizophrenic changes over the years on the topic. There you will discover a definite agenda bias in forming the composition of present DSM framework.
Calling Dr. Brown’s reinforcement of God’s own revelation to Moses and the Church fathers on the subject unprofessional is like saying beavers should not build dams because they did not receive their training on the subject from the engineers that built Berlin for the self display of the 3rd Reich. Further, it is radically unprofessional to assert that there are “millions of happy and well-adjusted lives of gay Christians who are church members, musicians, ministers and even bishops” without a verified database for such.
Actually there remained publishers who would publish this book, but not within the time frame urgently required. There also remained those of the faith who read what Moses and the Church fathers wrote as to what basic Christianity conforms its standards to as well. Just because the architects of the Third Reich assumed they could do all kinds of redefinitions of who represents God, right, and foundations of truth does not mean that the confessing church was so disposed.
Read Jude, get back with the forum after the read. Jude was a contemporary relative of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ founded faith in He Himself, commonly later identified as Christianity.