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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. 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.

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

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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

Suppose he says that the prohibns agast homosexual behavr were valid for that time and that culture but are no longer valid today.

IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

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.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

”[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.

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

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. 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.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

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. 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 .

RPONDG TO A “GAY CHRISTIAN” THE FAY

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.