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.
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10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Let's all boldly share the gospel so that our gay iends n be saved. * lgbt community and christianity *
He also ma historic appotments, cludg Pete Buttigieg as the first openly gay secretary the printial Cabet and Rachel Leve, the first openly transgenr feral official.
LGBT+ people have long had a difficult and tenuo relatnship wh relign and relig stutns. All too often the stutns hi behd meangls rhetoric and ancient texts to jtify open discrimatn and bald-faced hatred. Church stand the way of same-sex marriage, adoptn reform, and anti-discrimatn laws. The gay rights movement of the 60s and 70s was sentially a ph to shift morali away om those stalled by the church. Same-sex relatns are still illegal seventy-four untri around the world today, some still rry the ath penalty – wh relign almost always the jtifitn. Is possible, then, wh such tumultuo history and ongog battl across the globe, that the relig muny and the LGBT+ muny n -exist? * lgbt community and christianity *
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.
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.
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Requirg that all gay Christians rema celibate for life bee of their sexual orientatn is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy.