Orthodox Christiany and homosexualy. A place of support for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred Orthodox Christians. Constctive cricism of the church's posn
Contents:
- DO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE AND WHY?
- WHAT’S WRONG WH GAY MARRIAGE?
- RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
- THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
DO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE AND WHY?
I hear stori like this om other LGBTQ Orthodox Christians and I thk for a moment that maybe we do need a Gay iendly Orthodox Church. A church where Gay fahful Orthodox Christians uld pray, nfs and mune whout fear of beg rejected simply for who God ma them to be. * orthodox church gay *
For example, the Greek Orthodox Archdce lists homosexualy bi fornitn, adultery, abortn and abive sexual behavr as “immoral and appropriate forms of behavr and of themselv, and also bee they attack the stutn of marriage and the fay.
The persons say that the Bible and Church Tradn do not nmn homosexual behavur, but have been misterpreted and mised, sometim unknowgly and other tim que willfully, by prejudiced and hostile people who hate homosexuals.
WHAT’S WRONG WH GAY MARRIAGE?
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The people hold that they are lled by God to stggle agast their homosexual tennci as all people are lled to stggle agast the sful passns which they fd wh themselv, while they work to heal the of their disorientatn and disease. Given the tradnal Orthodox unrstandg of the Old and New Ttament scriptur as exprsed the Church’s lurgil worship, sacramental r, nonil regulatns and liv and teachgs of the sats, is clear that the Orthodox Church intifi solidly wh those Christians, homosexual and heterosexual, who nsir homosexual orientatn as a disorr and disease, and who therefore nsir homosexual actns as sful and stctive. Do not be ceived; neher the sexually immoral (or fornitors), nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals (or sodom; lerally those who have , or who sleep, wh men), nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will her the kgdom of God.
It is not ma any easier by the mdls, tly monic hatred of those who spise and ridicule those who rry this paful and burnsome cross; nor by the mdls, equally monic affirmatn of homosexual activy by s misguid advot and enablers. When homosexual Christians are willg to stggle, and when they receive patient, passnate and thentilly lovg assistance om their fai and iends – each of whom is stgglg wh his or her own temptatns and ss; for no one is whout this stggle one form or another, and no one is whout s but God – the Lord guarante victory ways known to Himself. The mosque is the nceptn of the associatn of Gay Mlims France (HM2F) – () Their unique ia b a welg and safe sanctuary for Mlim LGBTQ people, as well as a place for women to eely worship si the mosque whout havg to ply wh the ctomary head vergs or s the “back seats”.
This webse receiv numero emails and ntacts om LGBTQ Orthodox people who are seekg to nsult wh a passnate and unrstandg Orthodox prit, or have their same-sex unns blsed by an Orthodox prit or even people lookg for a gay iendly Orthodox parish. What this monstrat to me is that there are Orthodox fahful who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenred, or qutng their sexual orientatn, who sire to be full members of the Church whout nyg who God ma them to be, or rejectg their God given sire to love and be loved by someone of the same genr.
RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
The bt place to accs the views, qutns, prejudic and challeng of the World is, I believe, the office water-oler. The next bt plac would be the Huffgton Post and (for Canadians), the CBC. The water-oler however retas s pri of place as the se more often vised by the mon man who, if he retas his mon sense, tends to avoid the Huffgton Post and the CBC. Anyway, was at the office water-oler that the mon man ( this se, a woman) was exprsg the mon view on gay marriage, and askg wh some anger, “If two guys love each other, why n’t they get married?” The anger acpanyg the qutn dited that the speaker thought that the tradnal prohibn of gay marriage was morally abhorrent (my phrase, not hers), and she was reactg angrily, I spect, bee she discerned the opposn to gay marriage jt one more wretched example of how those wretched Christians are wretchedly imposg their narrow, irratnal, bigoted and wretched views on the rt of . In the old days, we wretched Christians were blamed for ctuo i (what else would all that secret talk about “the Kiss” and “brothers and sisters” mean?),… * orthodox church gay *
While I unrstand and support the gay Mlim muny France, their motiv and achievements, creatg a separate Orthodox parish or groups of church that would serve the LGBTQ muny is not somethg that I would enurage or support. Once the prit found out that this man was gay and a mted relatnship, the prit not only told the man never to e back to the church, but that he would publilly nounce the man if he ever dared to approach the chalice. One of the most emotnal, moral, and polilly charged issu the Uned Stat (and the world at large) has alt wh over the last 35 years or so has been that of homosexualy and the rights of those cizens who have openly intified themselv as homosexual or gay.
The basic premise for dog so is that although the Church's posn on homosexualy has not changed and may be rtated, the Church's ultimate ncern has always been for the people who are engaged this activy or have intified themselv as homosexuals. Startg wh Genis 19 where there is reference to homosexual activy among the men Sodom (hence the term sodomy), as well as Levic (18:22, 20:13) which mak reference to the adopted "Hols Co" and the penalty for such an actn—"If there is a man who li wh a male as those be wh a woman, both of them have mted a ttable act"—was ath.
Do not be ceived; neher the immoral nor the idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals (arsenokoai), nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor robbers shall her the kgdom of God.
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’S ROLE RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAWS
The lear of the Rsian Orthodox Church said gay pri paras were part of the reason for the war Ukrae. * orthodox church gay *
A homosexual person is one who feels sexual sire for and a sexual rponsivens to persons of the same sex and who seeks or would like to seek actual sexual fulfillment of this sire by sexual acts wh a person of the same sex. This is a signifint pot that the wrgs that have been ced th far nmn the actns of people and this way there is a "clear distctn between homosexual acts and a ndn a person attractg them to the acts.
A nice summary statement that n be offered: "The Orthodox Church do not nmn the person who keeps this propensy [homosexualy] check, and misters to homosexuals who wish to fd release om this clatn. In sence, bee homosexualy is "psychosexual" therefore, is a batn of a mdset (which is ntrary to Church teachg) that manifts self sful sexual activy, jt as the other sexual ss mentned beforehand. Gee Morelli, speakg at an Orthodox Christian Associatn of Medice, Psychology, and Relign (OCAMPR) nference at Holy Cross School of Theology November 2006 stat, "In our day, effort is beg ma to create a moral pary between heterosexualy and homosexualy.