If marriage ever came or singleness called me by name, He wanted to guarantee by the work of His hands that both would be lived unto Him.” “In my becoming Holy as He is, I would not be miraculously made into a woman that didn’t like women I’d be made into a woman that loved God more than anything. The choice to lay aside sin and take hold of holiness was not synonymous with heterosexuality.” It’s not that God would allow her to remain a “gay Christian,” but that there was far more to God’s will for her than a mere change of sexual orientation. “God was not calling me to be straight He was calling me to Himself. She knew God was calling her, but not in the way she had expected. Nothing was clear except God’s loud voice saying, ‘Come.’” Trying to stand up straight (or should I say, queer), made everything I loved, mainly myself and my girlfriend, blurry. Obviously, whatever was being asked of Him, regarding me, was making my little sinful world spin. “omeone had obviously been talking to God about me and it was the reason why God wouldn’t leave me alone. Haunted by the knowledge that God was trying to get her attention. Haunted by the knowledge that her life was not pleasing to him. Haunted by the knowledge that he had a claim on her. She was haunted by the knowledge that God is. She made this a core part of her self-identity, so that without it she wouldn’t even know who she was.

She became involved in lesbian relationships, taking on the part of the dominant, more masculine partner. Looking back, she knew it from a young age, but it wasn’t until her late teens that she came to grips with it and began to practice it. She was a sinner like you and me who experienced particular traumas-fatherlessness and childhood sexual abuse-and who experienced a particular temptation to sin-same-sex attraction.

So who was Jackie Hill Perry? She was a sinner. The first two tell how she awoke to her same-sex attraction and began to pursue it, while the remaining one describes the scriptural truths that made all the difference. The first two, then, are primarily biographical while the remaining one is didactic. Her book is divided into three parts-the first tells who she was and the second who she became, while the third takes a close look at the issue of same-sex attraction. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron

Gay Girl, Good God by Jackie Hill Perry