Why do some Christians believe ’s OK to be gay, when the Bible says isn’t? – Queer Grace

Contents:

• GAY IS OK! HOMEPAGE
• WHY GAY IS NOT OK
• GAY IS OK! SEMAP
• WHY DO SOME CHRISTIANS BELIEVE ’S OK TO BE GAY, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS ISN’T?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• A GEIA SCHOOL STAFFER REMOVED STUNT'S 'GAY IS OK' ARTWORK AND PARED TO A NAZI FLAG: REPORT
• GEIA STUNT’S ‘GAY IS OK’ ARTWORK REMOVED OM CLASSROOM, PARED TO NAZI FLAG, PARENTS SAY

GAY IS OK! HOMEPAGE

If were so, people would have no tert one genr or the other, yet we see many straights formg close bonds wh their own genr, and gays wh the oppose. Most gays have been driven to thoughts of suici at some time their liv by hostile peers, unsupportive fai, damng church, opprsive laws.

After speakg to a group of high school senrs about the damage of viewg homosexualy as a normal, alternative liftyle, I opened up for qutns. While I wasn't ready for my Q&A ssn wh the high schoolers, I vowed that I'd learn to prent a biblil view of homosexualy to nonbelievers. Usg this sle, the rearchers averaged figur supportg their claims that 10 percent of mal between the ag of 16 and 55 were more or ls exclively homosexual for at least three years.

Gordon Muir reported that he had found "substantial evince ditg that ls than 5 percent of men and women have had any homosexual ntact their lifetime, and no more than 3 percent of men and nsirably fewer women claim to be bisexual or exclively homosexual. The latt rearch on this area, published this April Science, uld not reproduce the fdgs of a prev study which had tied homosexual behavr to certa geic patterns.

WHY GAY IS NOT OK

Even if rearchers were to suggt a heredary tie wh homosexualy, as they have wh alholism, the right tack wh this argument is not to ntend that 's false, but that promot life-threateng behavr. " While AIDS is no longer nsired jt a gay disease, s universaly often overshadows the fact that, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control, "homosexuals ntue to make up the majory of s.

" Consequently, the 1993 fdgs of three rearchers wh the Eastern Psychologil Associatn, quoted by Jefey Satover "Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth" (Baker), should e as no surprise. Satover wr that "they found that the gay male lifpan, even apart om AIDS and wh a long-term partner, is signifintly shorter than that of married men general by more than three s.

Though rearchers have yet to prove or disprove a geic lk for homosexualy, they have proven one unniable fact: Homosexualy n be adly. Mattison found that even homosexual men "permanent" relatnships tend to stray more often than heterosexual men: "Y, that wayward impulse is as evable man-to-man affairs as man-to-woman, only, for gays, starts chg faster. In "Straight Answers About Homosexualy for Straight Rears" (Prentice-Hall), David Loovis adms that fily is a problem for male and female homosexuals.

GAY IS OK! SEMAP

Sometim a woman may have been a heterosexual relatnship for years and yet feel somethg is somehow "off;" and she may fd herself askg, "Is my hband gay? A pro-LGBTQ+ stunt artwork at a school Athens, Ga., was taken down om a classroom last week and likened by an admistrator to the Nazi picture, wh rabow lors and the words "Gay Is OK, " was beg displayed by a teacher as part of an exhib of stunt art at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, Atlanta TV statn WXIA reports.

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.

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

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.

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.

Becky Ankeny, A Leisurely Introductn to How a Bible-Believg Christian Can Accept Gay Marriage the Church (2017) (also available on Kdle). I ed to adamantly oppose the “gay liftyle” (What an ignorant phrase, like ’s any different om those that live a “heterosexual liftyle“? Once I started leang towards beg affirmg, I n’t tell you how many nversatns I’ve had that end someone sayg that even though they have nflictg thoughts about affirmg people beg LGBTQ and gay marriage and that they really do want to embrace the muny and even gay marriage, they uldn’t fully embrace bee “the bible clearly says ’s a s”.

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

What I am gog to do throughout the rt of this article is show you a biblil se for not only acceptance but affirmatn of the LGBTQ muny and gay marriage. After this I hope you will never e the “’s jt not biblil” exce when referrg to the extremely nuanced and ambiguo view of homosexualy the Bible.

On another note, wh the ma story seen above, the wrer po that the s of Sodom and Gomorrah was not homosexualy but was the lack of hospaly.

Do not be ceived; neher fornitors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemate, nor homosexuals, nor thiev, nor the veto, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers, will her the kgdom of God. So the word “homosexual” as we know today is not actually scripture, even though most translatns, as seen above, is placed there. The next word Arsenokoai, translated as homosexual seen above, was actually ed the septuagt scriptur (the Greek versn of the Hebrew Bible that Pl mostly quot om) the above Levic verse.

A GEIA SCHOOL STAFFER REMOVED STUNT'S 'GAY IS OK' ARTWORK AND PARED TO A NAZI FLAG: REPORT

Once aga, there was no word for any kd of sexual orientatn, gay or straight, when Pl wrote the letters and certaly no thought of a lovg rg relatnship between 2 same sex partners that did life together. ” In other words even if we nmn homosexualy, we are no better bee we are all jacked up people, but when we nmn we are judgg others and will be judged for our judgg.

GEIA STUNT’S ‘GAY IS OK’ ARTWORK REMOVED OM CLASSROOM, PARED TO NAZI FLAG, PARENTS SAY

Jt as important is at the time the scriptur were wrten this wasn’t known and was mon thought that beg gay was a choice and went agast the “natural male/female attractn” and a perversn bee of that. We know now that beg gay is not a choice like thought back at the time Pl wrote his letters and we also know, as shown, that Pl was most likely not even addrsg nsentg adults choosg to be a nsentg relatnship together. There’s also been a rash of suicis volvg gay youngsters who were bullied—which is perhaps why the trailer for The Dilemma ught major flak.