Crossing the Rainbow

Reflections at the Intersection of Christianity & Homosexuality

Kent Williamson was about eight years old when a friend who'd come over to play asked him if he wanted to suck his "naughty bit." Or would Kent let the friend suck his naughty bit? Kent reacted with childhood fury. He kicked the boy out of his house and threw a tennis ball after him as he fled down the street. About ten years later, he heard a guest speaker at youth group say that around one in four teens their age had already had some kind of homosexual encounter, and immediately the naughty bit incident came back to mind.

These chance encounters were the extent of his exposure to homosexuality until an unplanned turn of events two decades later. By then a filmmaker,...