Christian Book Series ‘Left Behind’ Is Homophobic And Helps Spread Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric

Many of us who hear the evangelic homophobic Christians talk about LGBTQ+ blame us for a lot of things that go wrong in the world from poverty in the United States to natural disasters. But what if I told you that there is a popular book series that actually helped pushed this narrative to the forefront during the mid-nineties?

Yes, it’s true a book series known as the Left Behind Series spanning sixten novels total, 12 in the main series and three prequel novels as well as a sequel novel. Written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, the book series was published between 1995 and 2007 and tells the story before, after and during the end times mentioned within the Book of Revelations and the series has a very heavy anti-LGBTQ+ stance written within it.

As I mentioned earlier that homophobic evangelical Christians like to blame LGBTQ+ for everything, this book series goes as far as to blame two homosexual lovers for the conception of the anti-Christ through the process of a top-secret artificial insemination project and giving the anti-Christ two gay fathers.

So if a Christian based book series can go as far as to blame LGBTQ+ for the birth of the anti-Christ, is it really a shock that the narrative pushed by the most extreme of a religious cult are pushing the narrative that being LGBTQ+ are to blame for things like poverty and natural disasters?

And the book series doesn’t even stop there, the portrayal of the anti-Christs two fathers are as cruel people, both married to women while being in love with each other and keeping their affair a secret due to wanting to hide the fact they are gay, however, after they move in together, one of their wives commits suicide and the man is portrayed as being unremorseful and making inappropriate jokes about their marriage and his wife’s suicide. On top of it, both men practice Luciferianism, a religion that worships Lucifer. They were eventually brutally assassinated by the anti-Christ himself. This book series does not portray real gay men but a homophobic Christian biased view of LGBTQ+. There is also a third character who is a lesbian, who ran a magazine company in the book series, however she only appears in the second and third novel in the book before disappearing and her fate is left completely unknown in any of the remaining novels published after the events of the third novel, however homophobic Christian fans of the book series have speculated that the character may have died during the global earthquake and was thrown into hell.

The series is definitely anti-LGBTQ+ with all it’s associating with Satan and evil, again just propping up the anti-LGBTQ+ narrative towards LGBTQ+ and I’m surprised no one has called this series out before now.