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CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
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At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible. What Do The Bible Say About Homosexualy? Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy.
” In askg, “What do the Bible say about homosexualy” (or more appropriately stated, “what do the Bible say about attractn to someone of the same sex, ”) our task is to explore what the relevant biblil passag on the topic meant their origal ntext and what they mean for today. God and The Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships (Convergent Books, 2014)Jam V.
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy.
You’ve probably heard said by a progrsive Christian or someone else who advanc pro-gay theology. I’ve heard many tim. It go somethg like this: “I want to talk about what the Bible says about LGBTQ+ people. But I’m not gog to foc on the clobber passag that nservative, right-wg Christians love to judge gays and lbians wh. The Bible says so much more than that.” The so-lled clobber passag are six passag Scripture that directly addrs the subject of homosexualy." lang="en-US" name="scriptn * the bible but gayer *
Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics.
As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. This is squarely le wh the church’s official posn on homosexualy, which is that is “patible wh scripture”.