Let's all boldly share the gospel so that our gay iends n be saved.
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10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians. * christianity and lgbt *
Contue Readg >> and Gomorrah addrs gang rape, not a lovg stctn of Sodom and Gomorrah is monly assumed to have been the rult of God’s wrath agast homosexualy, but the only form of same-sex behavr scribed the story is an attempted gang rape (Genis 19:5)—nothg like the lovg, mted relatnships that are wispread today. 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. However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief.
When Colorado passed an amendment a few years ago prohibg special civil rights for homosexuals, Barbara Streisand lled for a boytt of the state, sayg, “The moral climate Colorado has bee unacceptable. If there is no God, then there is no right and wrong, and don’t make any difference what liftyle you choose—the persecutor of homosexuals is morally equivalent to the advote of homosexualy. Jt as an alholic who is dry will still stand up at an AA meetg and say, “I am an alholic, ” so a homosexual who is livg straight and keepg himself pure ought to be able to stand up a Christian prayer meetg and say, “I am a homosexual.
You might not expect to mentn a topic like homosexual behavr, but fact there are six plac the Bible—three the Old Ttament and three the New Ttament—where this issue is directly addrsed—not to mentn all the passag alg wh marriage and sexualy which have implitns for this issue.
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The third place where homosexual acts are mentned the Old Ttament is the horrifyg story Genis 19 of the attempted gang rape of Lot’s visors by the men of Sodom, om which our word sodomy riv.
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the Kgdom of God. But such an terpretatn is obvly wrong, sce Pl says vers 24 and 27 that the homosexual acts by men were mted “wh one another” and verse 26 he speaks of lbian homosexual acts as well. ” God’s plan for human sexual activy is that is rerved for heterosexual marriage: any sexual activy outsi of the secury of the marriage bond—whether pre-maral sex or extra-maral sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual—is forbidn.
Or sendly, you uld try to show that homosexual behavr is wrong by appealg to generally accepted moral tths (ground God) which even people who don’t believe the Bible accept. ”[5] Hollywood, Gay Pri celebratns, and the media are relentlsly bent on puttg a happy face on homosexualy, whereas fact is a liftyle wh very real dangers and n be jt as addictive and stctive as alholism or smokg.