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Contents:
- WHY IS SODOMY AN OFFENSIVE WORD TO THE GAY MUNY?
- WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
- GENIS 19, SODOM, AND HOMOSEXUALY – AN EXCERPT OM GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
WHY IS SODOMY AN OFFENSIVE WORD TO THE GAY MUNY?
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Cy Kellett: So the sense I’m gettg then is that the biblil person or the person of that time would jt simply not have thought about an inty beg a fact, say a homosexual or heterosexual inty.
It’s been repeated so often the last several s, the ia that there are homosexual persons and heterosexual persons, as well as bisexual, transgenr, et cetera, cetera, that we’ve e to simply take for granted as te.
WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
As the word sodomy is removed om Queensland's Crimal Co, we ask an LGBTI Actn Group nvenor why the word is offensive to the gay muny. * sodom gay *
The term is unrstood history, lerature, and law several sens: (1) as notg any homosexual practic between men, alln to the biblil story of Sodom (Genis 18:19), (2) as notg anal terurse, (3) as synonymo wh btialy or zoophilia (i. Some Christians will go on and quote on how the word “sodomy” was origated om one of the two ci "God" stroyed bee of "homosexualy, ” that is jt not the begng of this Sodom and Gomorrah story is found Genis 13:Genis 13:8-13•So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarrelg between you and me, or between your herdsmen and me, for we are brothers.
" (NIV)Analysis and Interpretatn of Scripture 1There are several major hol the theory and myth that Sodom and Gomorrah were stroyed bee of, The ia that "all" the men of Sodom were gay is ridiculo and do not hold any water. Rape is a s, whether is homosexual or heterosexual is another story the Bible which the same thg happened relatg to rape and parallels n be drawn wh Sodom and Gomorrah:Judg 19:13-27•He add, "Come, let's try to reach Gibeah or Ramah and spend the night one of those plac.
GENIS 19, SODOM, AND HOMOSEXUALY – AN EXCERPT OM GOD AND THE GAY CHRISTIAN
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You have to remember that God is jealo and will not share centre stage wh any other “gods” this has got nothg to do wh homosexualy and hence parallels aga are drawn between Sodom and Gomorrah wh Israel beg 4:11•"I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. I have provid you Biblil evince om the Old Ttament that clearly shows that the ia Sodom and Gomorrah were stroyed bee of homosexualy is a fallacy and a lie that needs to be bunked. Turng away om God which is relig unfahfulns (Amos 4 and Jeremiah 23:13-14) evil to the poor and not helpg the needy (Amos 4) selfishly (Amos 4)In all of the scriptur above there is nstant reference to Sodom and Gomorrah and there is no clear or direct lk wh homosexualy but rather a lk wh unrighteo people who have turned away om is further Biblil evince the New Ttament that supports the reasons listed above.
This aga lks back to the theme of relig unfahfulns and unbelief, not homosexualy as many Christians would is fascatg to note that when J was here on earth he NEVER ma mentn of homosexualy beg sful and unnatural. J tght about many subjects cludg adultery, prostutn and worshippg false gods etc but he NEVER spoke exclively about homosexual behavur beg a “pal s” as most nservative Christians would believe.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Instead an issue such as adultery ma the 10 Commandments which most heterosexuals believe as an “acceptable” s pared to homosexualy their you don't know J as your personal Lord and Savur, you n know him right now. He ma no mentn of nmnatn beg for homosexuals this the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was exclively about homosexualy why is beg mentned several scriptur Bible cludg the NEW TESTAMENT by J? The story of Sodom and Gomorrah has been a perpetuated lie to persecute homosexuals when God was simply drawg to the attentn that if people are unrighteo and turn away om Him, he will punish them.
While there is a slight nod to the homosexual terpretatn, albe a radilly different way than you might thk, the Jewish unrstandg of this narrativ go a pletely different directn. Morn scholarship, particularly Judaism and certa branch of Christiany, has proposed that is the habants’ lack of hospaly, not their homosexualy, that giv offense to God. Cultural legacy An spiratn to wrers, artists, and psychologists, Sodom and Gomorrah and their legendary wickedns have been the subject of numero dramas, cludg the History of Lot and Abraham, a medieval mystery play; Sodome et Gomorrhe, by the French dramatist Jean Girdoux, 1943; and Sodhome kye Ghomorra, by the Greek wrer Nikos Kazantzákis, the 1950s.
But when the other townsmen fd out about this, they mand that Lot allow them to be is the specific verse which the Oxford Dictnary says lked the ia of Sodom wh homosexual rape:"They lled to Lot: 'Where are the men who me to you tonight?