Y, You Can Be Gay And Evangelil

Contents:

• COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
• GAY AND EVANGELIL
• CAN YOU BE GAY-VANGELIL?
• GAY AND EVANGELIL, SEEKG PATHS OF ACCEPTANCE

COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD

I knew what others had said about ‘gays’ as I was growg up, but I uld fight no more, I prayed ‘please God if this is real then brg someone to speak to me’ my surprise the next week I got chattg to a patient (I’m an optometrist) and she me out to me - she said she felt that I need to hear .

I ntacted an anisatn lled LGCM (Lbian & Gay Christian Movement, now OneBodyOneFah) and I was sent a bundle of urage my heart and hope for somethg new I went along to a gay Christian group Manchter, where I was the only woman!

GAY AND EVANGELIL

Neverthels, they put me touch wh a uple of women and, through them, I went along to Metropolan Communy Church (MCC), also known as ‘the gay church’ first urageo steps set me on the path to disvery of beg an ‘out and proud’ lbian Christian wh a ep and meangful relatnship wh God. Support for gay marriage across all age groups of whe evangelils has creased by double digs over the past , acrdg to the Public Relign Rearch Instute, and the fastt change n be found among younger evangelils — their support for gay marriage jumped om 20% 2003 to 42% 2014. The great diversy prent among fundamentalist and leralist Christians, relative to the small number of Bible passag that actually mentn homosexual activy, leav a lot of room for someone to be an LGBTQ+ fundamentalist Christian.

A lifelong unselor, teacher and tor, havg worked elementary and sendary tn for 25 years, Gary Simpson is a member of the Canadian Counselg and Psychotherapy Associatn and has spoken and led workshops on gay-straight allianc, bullyg, spirual self-fense, gay Christian inty, and the needs of GLBT youth and young adults. " Stephen Board, edor of Eterny magaze, replied, "In 1978 1 thk that the most tertg story will be the rponse of the Uned Prbyterian Church to var nservative ncerns, specifilly the qutn of the ordatn of homosexuals.

"(3) Also 1973, an ecumenil Natnal Task Force on Gay People the Church was regnized by the erng board of the Natnal Council of then, tert the subject of homosexualy and the church has mhroomed to the pot that there are prently fourteen nomatnal gay uc seekg acceptance for homosexuals the church. Report, for example, nclus that " view of the plexy of the issue, the disagreement among Christians and the variety the character and experience of homosexual persons themselv, seems unwise at this time to propose any one posn as the posn of our Church. For grantg lol ngregatns and prbyteri the optn of ordag self-affirmed sexually active homosexuals, seemed to dite that homosexualy per se was not to be nsired on the church and homosexualy have been rollg off secular and church prs alike creasg numbers.

CAN YOU BE GAY-VANGELIL?

Taken together, such evince suggts that homosexualy has bee a major theologil ncern of the Prottant church spe of the general tert the topic among the wir Prottant church, is surprisg that homosexualy has bee a major issue among evangelils.

GAY AND EVANGELIL, SEEKG PATHS OF ACCEPTANCE

His The Wtenburg Door, The Journal of the Amerin Scientific Affiliatn, Eterny, Dghters of Sarah, The Reformed Journal, Christiany Today, Inspiratn, Moody Monthly, The Christian Herald, Fah at Work, The Other Si-all have had sce 1977 major featur or whole issu voted- to a Christian unrstandg of homosexualy. While nflict between Reformed, Anabaptist, and Amerin fundamentalist tradns has been largely rponsible, as we have seen, for fosterg divisn over the church's unrstandg of social ethics, and while a lack of nsens regardg Biblil hermentics li behd much of the ntug ntroversy ncerng women's place marriage and church, is the fluence of ntemporary culture that has forced evangelils to rensir their theologil unrstandg of homosexualy.