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?
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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.
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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.
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. * lgbt community and christianity *
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. Requirg that all gay Christians rema celibate for life bee of their sexual orientatn is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy.
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. Views about homosexualy18-2930-4950-6465+Sample sizeShould be accepted22%34%28%17%13, 119Should be disuraged13%31%31%26%9, 416Neher/both equally13%36%31%20%1, 089Don't know10%34%27%29%896Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state. Views about homosexualyYounger MillennialOlr MillennialGeneratn XBaby BoomerSilentGreattSample sizeShould be accepted14%14%28%33%11%1%13, 119Should be disuraged8%10%26%37%18%2%9, 416Neher/both equally7%11%31%37%13%1%1, 089Don't know6%10%29%33%20%3%896Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.