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Contents:
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- GAY LORD
- THE GAY LIFE OF LORD BYRON
- IS LOR GAY? SGER RPONDS TO ‘ELLEN TOGETHER’ COMMENT ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT
- ‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
- ON GAY PRITS, POPE FRANCIS ASKS, ‘WHO AM I TO JUDGE?’
- THE GAY LORD WARG
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians. * lord and gay *
A mon argument for the acceptance of homosexualy and same-sex marriage is that, if God is love, He would not nmn the love of others. The world and maybe even our own sensivi might say that allowg others to live a homosexual relatnship is to see to their well-beg.
Romans 1:26 says homosexualy is disgraceful and dishonorg. First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body. If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om .
That beg said, those wh homosexual attractns are sperate need of love. Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo. The need for love is no different for sgle heterosexuals than is for those wh homosexual attractn.
GAY LORD
"Beg gay" won't send you to hell. The qutn is, “Can you believe J and be homosexual at the same time?” Learn why the answer is both y and no. * lord and gay *
If God is love, why do He nmn homosexualy?
At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible. What Do The Bible Say About Homosexualy? Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy.
” In askg, “What do the Bible say about homosexualy” (or more appropriately stated, “what do the Bible say about attractn to someone of the same sex, ”) our task is to explore what the relevant biblil passag on the topic meant their origal ntext and what they mean for today.
THE GAY LIFE OF LORD BYRON
Perceived to be the 'origal' or 'first' homosexual male, if such a beg ever existed. The ocsnal myth that emerg om closed circl entails that the one Gay Lord led over homosexuals early Mopotamian tim as a y of sorts and if he still lived today, would be able to ntrol every livg gay man wh a sgle thought. Some say that the homosexual 'sence' of the Gay Lord was / is the purt of all gays. To this day, is unknown as to how the Gay Lord actually looked like, although there is much speculatn on whether the Gay Lord still liv; locked away ep slumber. It has also been said that the Gay Lord has no apparent nnectn wh bisexuals or lbians." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * lord and gay *
God and The Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships (Convergent Books, 2014)Jam V. The term “homosexual” didn’t exist until 1892. Some morn Bible translatns say that “homosexuals” will not her the kgdom of God, but neher the ncept nor the word for people wh exclive same-sex attractn existed before the late 19th century.
While the Bible rejects ltful same-sex behavr, that’s very different om a nmnatn of all gay people and relatnships.
Requirg that all gay people rema celibate is at odds wh the Bible’s teachgs on celibacy, which are ground Scripture’s re affirmatn that God’s physil creatn is good. Mastream nomatns like Prbyterians and Epispalians now orda openly gay clergy, and there are seeds of change evangelil church as well.
IS LOR GAY? SGER RPONDS TO ‘ELLEN TOGETHER’ COMMENT ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT
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Matthew V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and is the founr of The Reformatn Project, a Bible-based non-prof anizatn that seeks to reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty. “If someone is gay and search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?
His posn stood ntrast to that of his precsors: Months earlier, Pope Benedict XVI suggted that gay marriage was a threat to global peace. A person once asked me, a provotive manner, if I approved of homosexualy. I replied wh another qutn: ‘Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, do he endorse the existence of this person wh love, or reject and nmn this person?
‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
“If someone is gay and he search for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” Francis was quoted as sayg on Monday. * lord and gay *
A few weeks later, Brazilian Cardal Cláud Humm, said he “didn’t know” whether J would oppose gay marriage. Patrick Day Para Commtee’s cisn to allow a gay group to march the 2015 para unr their own banner. (Twenty-one years earlier, one of Dolan’s precsors, Cardal John O’Connor, said that to allow a gay group to march would be a slanr to the Apostl’ Creed.
ON GAY PRITS, POPE FRANCIS ASKS, ‘WHO AM I TO JUDGE?’
The pope began a seri of meetgs and dialogu wh LGBT dividuals and activists — 2015 Throughout the first months of 2015, Pope Francis had several enunters wh LGBT dividuals and groups, cludg a transgenr man om Spa who was exclud om his parish muny, and gay and transgenr prisoners Napl. The Vatin also gave the VIP treatment to a pro-LGBT Amerin Catholic group visg Rome and the pope met wh a gay Paraguayan activist durg his recent trip to South Ameri. What do the Bible really say about beg gay?
This is pecially te as many of have iends or relativ who are gay. Before we say anythg else, please know that “beg gay” don’t send anybody to hell. When to what we do and the way we’ve lived our liv, everybody stands nmned — whether they intify as gay or straight, liberal or nservative, relig or not.
Wh those thgs md, we thk your qutn really boils down to, “Is possible to believe J and be homosexual at the same time? Here at Foc on the Fay, we take the view that there’s an important difference between homosexual feelgs and sir and actg on those feelgs and sir.
THE GAY LORD WARG
But no — you n’t be a fahful, obedient Christian while willgly volvg yourself homosexual acts. That’s the eper reason why a practicg homosexual nnot be a practicg Christian.
Unrstandg Homosexualy. The Gay Gospel?
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