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.
As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.
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 *
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. 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. Views about homosexualyMenWomenSample sizeShould be accepted40%60%13, 312Should be disuraged52%48%9, 649Neher/both equally49%51%1, 130Don't know41%59%957Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state. Views about homosexualyWheBlackAsianLatoOther/MixedSample sizeShould be accepted64%12%2%19%3%13, 202Should be disuraged69%14%2%12%3%9, 520Neher/both equally63%14%1%17%4%1, 103Don't know63%13%2%17%5%912Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.