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
Contents:
- J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.
- ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
- POPE CONGRATULAT, BLS GAY COUPLE ON THE BAPTISM OF THEIR ADOPTED CHILDREN
- WAS J GAY?
- FRENCH PRIT SAYS POPE FRANCIS APPROVED BLSG GAY COUPL
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. 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).
ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
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.
” 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.
POPE CONGRATULAT, BLS GAY COUPLE ON THE BAPTISM OF THEIR ADOPTED CHILDREN
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.
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.
WAS J GAY?
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. 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.
FRENCH PRIT SAYS POPE FRANCIS APPROVED BLSG GAY COUPL
A nonprof anizatn providg rourc and support to Christians who happen to be gay, lbian, bisexual, or trangenr. Many gay relignists sist that J never mentned homosexualy and th uld not have opposed .
Could J be referrg here to male homosexuals as beg among those who experience no other sex attractn, and if so, do this passage signal the blsg of J on homosexualy? A recent paper by a Norwegian theologian, Raghnild Schanke, asserts that J was ed referrg to several tegori of people cludg asexual persons and those who would f the morn ncept of homosexualy.