Should a Christian attend the weddg of a gay uple? |

Contents:

• J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.
• J SAID SOME ARE BORN GAY.
• DID THE CENTURN AND HIS SERVANT HAVE A GAY RELATNSHIP?
• SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?
• 31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS
• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.

Dover, Greek Homosexualy (Harvard Universy Prs, Cambridge, 1978), page 16; Bernard Sergent, Homosexualy Greek Myth (Bean Prs, Boston, 1986), page 10.

In the origal language, the importance of this story for gay, lbian, and bisexual Christians is much clearer.

J SAID SOME ARE BORN GAY.

In that culture, if you were a gay man who wanted a male “spoe, ” you achieved this, like your heterosexual unterparts, through a mercial transactn — purchasg someone to serve that purpose. For an excellent and thorough discsn of the terms pais and entimos doulos the two gospel acunts, see Donald Mar’s article The Entimos Pais of Matthew 8:5-13 and Le 7:1-10, (Source: Homosexualy and Relign and Philosophy, Harland Publishg, Inc., New York, 1998).

As he ma his way to J, he probably worried about the possibily that J, like other Jewish rabbis, would take a dim view of his homosexual relatnship. This was like a gay man askg a televangelist to heal his lover.

Instead, J’ words are simple, clear, and liberatg for all who have worried about what God thks of gay relatnships. ” In other words, J holds up this gay centurn as an example of the type of fah others should aspire to. J didn’t jt tolerate this gay centurn.

DID THE CENTURN AND HIS SERVANT HAVE A GAY RELATNSHIP?

” By this statement J affirmed that many others like this gay centurn — those who e om beyond the assumed boundari of God’s grace — are gog to be admted to the kgdom of heaven. In this story, J rtor a gay relatnship by a miracle of healg and then holds up a gay man as an example of fah for all to follow. Holy Homosexuals: The Tth About Beg Gay or Lbian and Christian by Rev.

Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Qutns About Gay & Lbian People, Third Edn by Eric Marc.

SHOULD A CHRISTIAN ATTEND THE WEDDG OF A GAY UPLE?

Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? This pasnate book exam the meangs and tents of Scripture, but also speaks of real people's liv, and challeng Christians (gay and not) to re-exame their attus toward gay and lbian people.

J, the Bible, and Homosexualy: Explo the Myths, Heal the Church by Jack Rogers.

Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian Ameri by Rev. Whe tails his twenty-five years of beg unseled, exorcised, electric-shocked, and nearly driven to suici bee his church said homosexualy was wrong. Wrer, blogger, and gay Catholic, Andrew Sullivan analyz the polics of the homosexualy bate.

31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

What the Bible Really Says About Homosexualy by Daniel A. An examatn of all of the Biblil passag that are monly ed to nmn gay people and gay behavr. The Gay Christian Network.

A nonprof anizatn providg rourc and support to Christians who happen to be gay, lbian, bisexual, or trangenr. " This termology ("born nuchs") was ed the ancient world to refer to homosexual men. Some Christians nfintly assert that God did not create homosexual people "that way.

" This is important bee they realize if God did create gays "that way, " rejectg them would be tantamount to rejectg God’s work creatn. Rather, they were associated wh stereotypilly effemate characteristics and behavr (jt like morn gay men), and were thought by Rabbi Eliezer to be subject to “cure” (jt like morn gays).

POLICY CHANG ANNOUNCED FOR MEMBERS GAY MARRIAG, CHILDREN OF LGBT PARENTS

Moreover, as we have also seen, nuchs were monly associated wh homosexual sire. (For a plete discsn of the term "born nuch" and the nnectn wh homosexualy, see The Early Church Weled a Gay Man.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

The implitn of his statement is profound — God created gay people the way they are!