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.
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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.
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?
5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
* what did jesus say about gays *
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. Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them....
In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God. On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals. On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals.