(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet.
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WHY DO CHRISTIANS HATE GAYS?
Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practise homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. They do not harbor the same feelgs for everyone the followg list of those the Bible says will not her the kgdom of God: “the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers” (1 Cor 6:9–10). Christians often try to clarify that they love gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng people, even though they believe those people are disobeyg God.
He also ma historic appotments, cludg Pete Buttigieg as the first openly gay secretary the printial Cabet and Rachel Leve, the first openly transgenr feral official. This is a genue act of love, not say that thentic Christians hate or fear those trapped the homosexual liftyle monstrat a gross misunrstandg of the Christian fah. 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. "The anti-gay vlence, some experts ntend, n be traced to Brazil’s culture of machismo and a brand of evangelil Christiany, exported om the Uned Stat, that is outspoken s opposn to homosexualy. Durg a televised printial bate 2014, one of the ndidat, Levy Filix, said that homosexuals were unf to be parents and that 'excretory systems aren’t for reproductn.