Getty ImagPope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. He reportedly replied: This (laws around the world crimalisg LGBTI people) is not right. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. God lov them. God acpani them … nmng a person like this is a s. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Cat
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WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * what did jesus say about gays *
In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe? The article was ocsned by a story about a gay teenager Oh who was sug his high school after school officials prohibed him om wearg a T-shirt that said, “J Is Not a Homophobe.
Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s. While ’s reasonable to assume that J and his fellow Jews first-century Palte would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no rerd of his ever havg mentned homosexualy, let alone exprsed particular revulsn about .... Never the Bible do J himself offer an explic prohibn of homosexualy.
5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
It's important to nsir what J says to the gay muny, if for no other reason than the nfg noise on the news and public foms. * what did jesus say about gays *
Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about . Get a ee py of the ebook ‘What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy?
It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy. So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn.