How to Be an Openly Gay Christian: 10 Steps (wh Pictur)

Contents:

• HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
• CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE
• Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
• RPONDG TO A “GAY CHRISTIAN” THE FAY

HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN

One of the most volatile and important issu facg the Church today is the qutn of homosexualy as an alternative liftyle. Some church have moved away om the historic Christian posn and endorsed the homosexual liftyle and even orda those who practice to serve as their misters.

CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

Evangelils Concerned is a group of people who are to all appearanc born-aga, Bible-believg Christians, but also practicg homosexuals. They claim that the Bible don’t forbid homosexual activy or that s mands aren’t valid for today, but were jt a reflectn of the culture which the Bible was wrten.

The persons n be orthodox about J and every other area of Christian teachg; but they thk that ’s biblilly permissible to be a practicg homosexual. They would nmn a society like Nazi Germany which imprisoned homosexuals ncentratn mps, along wh Jews and other alleged unsirabl. When Colorado passed an amendment a few years ago prohibg special civil rights for homosexuals, Barbara Streisand lled for a boytt of the state, sayg, “The moral climate Colorado has bee unacceptable.

If there is no God, then there is no right and wrong, and don’t make any difference what liftyle you choose—the persecutor of homosexuals is morally equivalent to the advote of homosexualy. Now if someone is gog to rist this reasong, he’s got to ny eher that (2) God’s will is exprsed the Bible or else that (3) the Bible forbids homosexual behavr.

BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

Beg homosexual is a state or an orientatn; a person who has a homosexual orientatn might not ever exprs that orientatn actns.

The ia of a person’s beg a homosexual by orientatn is a feature of morn psychology and may have been unknown to people the ancient world. For one thg, means that the whole bate about whether homosexualy is somethg you were born wh or is a rult of how you were raised really don’t matter the end.

Some fenrs of a homosexual liftyle are very anx to prove that your gen, not your upbrgg, terme if you’re homosexual bee then homosexual behavr is normal and right. Now the sober tth of the matter is that we don’t fully unrstand the rol of heredy and environment producg a homosexual orientatn.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Even if homosexualy were pletely geic, that fact alone wouldn’t imply that such a liftyle is morally acceptable and should be dulged.

Many homosexuals ttify how agonizg is to fd onelf wh the sir and to fight agast them, and they’ll tell you they would never choose to be that way. Jt as an alholic who is dry will still stand up at an AA meetg and say, “I am an alholic, ” so a homosexual who is livg straight and keepg himself pure ought to be able to stand up a Christian prayer meetg and say, “I am a homosexual. You might not expect to mentn a topic like homosexual behavr, but fact there are six plac the Bible—three the Old Ttament and three the New Ttament—where this issue is directly addrsed—not to mentn all the passag alg wh marriage and sexualy which have implitns for this issue.

Now sometim homosexual advot make light of the prohibns by parg them to prohibns the Old Ttament agast havg ntact wh unclean animals like pigs. Jt as Christians today don’t obey all of the Old Ttament ceremonial laws, so, they say, we don’t have to obey the prohibns of homosexual actns. But the problem wh this argument is that the New Ttament reaffirms the validy of the Old Ttament prohibns of homosexual behavr, as we’ll see below.

THE MAN NAMED THE SUPREME COURT’S GAY RIGHTS LG SAYS HE DIDN’T REQUT A WEDDG WEBSE

The third place where homosexual acts are mentned the Old Ttament is the horrifyg story  Genis 19 of the attempted gang rape of Lot’s visors by the men of Sodom, om which our word sodomy riv.

Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the Kgdom of God. ” The words the list translated “men who practice homosexualy” refer Greek lerature to the passive and the active partners male homosexual terurse.

Y&R’S CHRISTIAN LEBLANC OPENS UP ABOUT THE STGGL OF LIVG AS A GAY MAN

But such an terpretatn is obvly wrong, sce Pl says vers 24 and 27 that the homosexual acts by men were mted “wh one another” and verse 26 he speaks of lbian homosexual acts as well. Even if there weren’t all the explic passag alg wh homosexual acts, such acts would still be forbidn unr the mandment “You shall not m adultery. ” God’s plan for human sexual activy is that is rerved for heterosexual marriage: any sexual activy outsi of the secury of the marriage bond—whether pre-maral sex or extra-maral sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual—is forbidn.

Suppose he says that the prohibns agast homosexual behavr were valid for that time and that culture but are no longer valid today. In the same way, some people say that the Bible’s prohibns agast homosexual behavr are no longer valid for our day and age.

More importantly, we’ve seen that the Bible’s prohibns agast homosexual activy are rooted, not culture, but the God-given pattern for marriage tablished at creatn. You n’t ny that the Bible’s forbiddg homosexual relatns exprs God’s will unls you also reject that marriage self exprs God’s will. Or sendly, you uld try to show that homosexual behavr is wrong by appealg to generally accepted moral tths (ground God) which even people who don’t believe the Bible accept.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

”[5] Hollywood, Gay Pri celebratns, and the media are relentlsly bent on puttg a happy face on homosexualy, whereas fact is a liftyle wh very real dangers and n be jt as addictive and stctive as alholism or smokg. Associated wh promiscuy and lonels, ternatnal studi report var mental disorrs occur signifintly more often among homosexuals. The clu anxiety, prsn, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, alholism and dg pennce, One tailed study[8] showed homosexuals to be, general, twice as likely to be prsed, to suffer phobic disorrs, to be pennt on dgs, to be pennt on alhol, to have experienced self-harm and to have need psychiatric help than the general populatn, while their happs ratgs were halved.

The fdgs are signifint, as the mental health problems the gay muny are often attributed to social stigma and “mory strs. It is difficult to know how many suicis are directly related to homosexualy, as sexual orientatn is not rerd on ath certifit. Gonorrhea has reached epimic levels the gay muny, and there are growg fears that the bacteria will bee immune to all known antibtics.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

It was monly stated early this lennium that gay and bisexual men uld expect to die prematurely by some 20 years, wh AIDS due to HIV beg the biggt killer. Currently, figur for overall life-expectancy among homosexuals are hotly disputed, while preventive measur and treatments to improve their life-expectancy nsume huge amounts of money om Health Care budgets. Th, wholly apart om the Bible’s prohibns, there are sound medil and social reasons to regard homosexual activy as beg wrong due to the damage may flict on onelf or others.

In some s, laws ncerng homosexual activy might be proposed, and Christians will have to thk hard about the on an dividual basis. For example, a Christian might see good reason to support laws guaranteeg equal opportuni buyg or rentg hog to persons who are homosexuals. But I uld well image that a Christian might oppose a bill grantg special civil rights for homosexuals beyond what is acrd to all persons generally.

[17] Moreover, even apart om the Bible, there are generally accepted moral prcipl which imply that homosexual behavr is wrong.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

First, if you are a homosexual or feel such clatns, while you did not choose those sir, as a Christian you mt not choose those behavrs or put yourself the way of those temptatns by the pany you keep, the films you choose to watch, or the fantasi you allow yourself to dulge . Whether those sir are adultero, pornographic, or homosexual, a untry which rpects eedom of speech, you should be ee to pursue “talkg-therapi” to help you. [19] This impli that some 3% of the populatn do not intify as straight, but only half that number intify as gay or lbian, wh perhaps 1% as gay.

”[20][21] Homosexual persons n velop heterosexual sir, jt as heterosexuals, who have had a wife and children, n velop homosexual sir. When homosexual patterng is laid down early before heterosexual patterng has been tablished, subsequent change may prove a real stggle, but remas a possibily for those who are mted to change. Most homosexuals did not nscly choose such an orientatn of their sir and many would like to change their sir if they uld.

IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

If you fd yourself feelg glad when some afflictn befalls a homosexual person or you fd feelgs of hatred wellg up your heart toward homosexual people, then you need to reflect long and hard on the words of J rerd Matthew: “ will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgement for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you” (Mt. Look for church that have LGBTQ affy groups, Gay Straight Allianc, mentorg programs for queer youth, and diversy-affirmg mte. If there are no ngregatns near where you live, nsir streamg onle church servic om a gay-affirmg church and participatg related msage boards.

Reassure them that you know what you are talkg about, that you have always been gay, and that you are still a Christian. If they say you're nfed, rebellg, or have "chosen" to intify as gay, all you n do is say that you unrstand why they thk that, but 's not te. While terpretatn of the Bible vari over time and between nomatns, many Christians rely on a few short passag to nmn gay people.

Pot out that Romans 1:26-27 and Levic 18:22 and 20:13 are about teachg agast worship of false gods, and that ntext may expla the language about gay sex. If they brg up I Corthians 6:9 or I Timothy 1:10, tell them the translatn of the Greek words "malakos" and "arsenoko" as "gay" is ntroversial, as that meang was rare when the words were most mon. In the Bible, I heard some passag that a male beg gay is abomatn; I'm actually gay and I'm not sure if I'm gonna go to heaven.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

However, the Bible is very clear that gay sexual activy is nsired sful and that a Christian is not to take part such activi. Romans 1:26-27 not gay activy as "unnatural" while 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists same sex activy as somethg done by those who will "not her the kgdom of God. In fact, Pl's list clus, "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers" (1 Corthians 6:9-10).

Yet even when I’m 90% sure the person I’m addrsg will be acceptg, I still get that ltle jerky stomach-knot right before I say the words “gay” or “girliend” to someone new. Durg my unrgraduate gree, I basilly gave up gog to church altogether bee felt like all the Christian stunts were harned anti-gay ’s a time and a place for what I ll “activist church-gog”: gog to a church where you know you won’t be accepted jt to remd them that queer Christians do exist. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen me out as gay on Thursday what is believed to be a first for a male ach major U.

In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led Friday, June 30, 2023, Smh who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File). In a feat for gay rights, the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led Friday, June 30, 2023, Smh who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex upl. Supreme Court led Friday uld refe to make weddg webs for gay upl ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh requt dispute, om a person intified as “Stewart, ” wasn’t the basis for the feral lawsu filed preemptively seven years ago by web signer Lorie Smh, before she started makg weddg webs.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

But as the se advanced, was referenced by her attorneys when lawyers for the state of Colorado prsed Smh on whether she had sufficient grounds to revelatn distracts om Smh’s victory at a time when she might have been baskg her w, which is wily nsired a setback for gay rights.

As the send of eight kids his large southern fay, LeBlanc revealed that he’s attend multiple terventns, lost his brother to AIDS when he was jt 25, and as a gay man, still suffers om homophobia and tolerance.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

Although the Emmy-wner allows that thgs are better now than years past, there is still homophobia and tolerance everywhere the world. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report.

However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. ) And Kate McKnon, playg a so-lled Weird Barbie who experienced an extreme haircut and makeover at the hands of an experimental child, never actually answers the qutn anybody would have upon seeg her gay-ass haircut and knowg the actor’s sexualy. 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.

RPONDG TO A “GAY CHRISTIAN” THE FAY

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.

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.