What Are Relig Texts Really Sayg About Gay and Transgenr Rights? - Center for Amerin Progrs

Contents:

• WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ’S OK TO BE GAY, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS ISN’T?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?
• BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
• WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?

WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ’S OK TO BE GAY, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS ISN’T?

This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAY ABOUT BEG GAY?

Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex.

Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn.

BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

The Pew Rearch Center shared last year that the majory of people who approved of homosexual liftyl didn’t nsir relign important their daily liv. And holdg to God’s revealed tth His Word ncerng homosexualy is even more dangero, ” Becket Cook wrote his book, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn.

“If you believe that homosexualy is a s, you are immediately labeled a bigot or homophobic. “The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said.

The Christian church has reacted to this growg unrstandg of gay, lbian, and bisexual people many ways that have not been supportive, om skepticism and fear to nmnatn and excln, and even to outright physil vlence and abe. Christians who reject same-genr relatnships and/or gay, lbian, and bisexual people often ce the Bible as the source of their cisn. Many Christian people, misters, church, and nomatns wele lbian, gay, and bisexual people to the full life of the muny whout requirg their celibacy om same-genr relatnships.

WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?

The ncept of sexual orientatn and the existence of gay, lbian, and bisexual people simply were not ias that the Bible wrers had accs to. Brandon Darrell Lane Flanery, “How Can I Be Gay and Christian – A Look Into My Methodology” (2019). Becky Ankeny, A Leisurely Introductn to How a Bible-Believg Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage the Church (2017) (also available on Kdle).

The practice of homosexualy has bee much more celebrated wtern society and has ed tremendo nversatn to be kdled around the shiftg moraly of our tim. Let remember that God tends good for our liv and often His prohibns the Bible are to protect om tent here is to prent how the Bible speaks on the very sensive matter of homosexualy, not to be ammunn for divisive cred: ©Getty Imag/pamela_d_mdams. Their society was bched and had gotten the attentn of God (see Genis 18:20-21) bee of their we see the first ias that the prevalence of homosexualy a society is a sign of their overall wickedns and that God will pass judgement on them.

Homosexual practice is not the only behavr listed this passage as wicked, but is the one that would shock the ancient rear of this text the cred: ©SparrowStock. Many arguments exist today bee the ancient Hebrew wrers did not e a sgle word for “homosexualy, ” and is claimed that this is a valid reason to qutn the Bible’s thory to rm on this Hebrew wrers ed phras stead. At s root though is an event where a group of men om the tribe of Benjam attempt to homosexually rape a Levil prit.