Pl-Anthony Turner, a gay semary graduate, has a ep mment to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "I will not leave Adventism," he says. "I won't hand over to people who operate out of fear and bigotry."
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A GAY MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
The Adventist Church’s official statement on Homosexualy, adopted 1999 and revised 2012, says that the church is “opposed to homosexual practic and relatnships.
” The Church Manual also nmns “homosexual and lbian practic, ” though the statements—and the church’s Workg Policy—do not explicly addrs bisexualy or prohib intifyg as non-heterosexual. In s Media Reference Gui, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), a US-based non-ernmental anizatn, intifi “liftyle” as a term to avoid when discsg LGBTQ issu.
Predictably, the worldwi Seventh-day Adventist Church anizatn has strongly rpond, cg s voted statements about “Human Sexualy, ” “Homosexualy, ” and “Transgenrism, ” and several Bible texts as “proof” that only heterosexual marriage is God’s ial. We remend the book The Bible and LBGTQ Adventists by Alicia Johnston to those terted readg a balanced, -pth treatment about how homosexualy was regard the Bible.