Gay and Lbian Christians: Homosexual and Relig Inty Integratn the Members and Participants of a Gay-Posive Church on JSTOR

Contents:

• PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT
• LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR
• SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL

PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT

Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall. 5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig.

In most societi, relig proscriptns agast homosexual activy fed the ntent of secular law, and this is particularly te Abrahamic societi (perhaps pecially Islamic-domated poli), although rearch also suggts a siar legal and social aversn Confucian societi (Adamczyk, 2017; Adamczyk & Cheng, 2014; Adamczyk & Pt, 2009).

LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR

Polil movements for gay rights veloped slowly the mid- to late 20th century, emanatg om gay clubs and bs, and om apolil associatns like the Mattache Society and the Dghters of Bilis (Fetner, 2008; Lneman, 2003; Rimmerman, 2002; Smh & Hair-Markel, 2002). The nature of municipal polics and the ubiquy of gay-owned bs major ci led to several unexpected victori for the GLBT movement, as cy uncil members and mayors were generally supportive of non-discrimatn (Bernste, 1997; Hair-Markel & Meier, 1996).

Conservative relig movements rema stnchly opposed to anti-discrimatn ordanc, and several have recently failed even large ci like Hoton, Texas (Sherkat, 2017), while ncentratns of fundamentalist Prottants have a negative effect on favorable votg toward gay rights public referenda (Hair-Markel & Meier, 1996; McVeigh & Diaz, 2004). When the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (1972) and the World Health Organizatn (WHO) (1992) stopped classifyg homosexualy as a disorr, mastream secular psychiatry quickly moved away om the nversn mol, and stead gay nversn beme a practice rooted mostly Christian clil muni. Inially, nservative relig groups saw the epimic as a curse om their gods agast gays, and they ated agast public health rpons such as ndom distributn, subsidized ttg, and medil rearch to seek treatments (Allen & Heald, 2004; Harris, 2010; Smh, Simmons, & Mayer, 2005).

Yet, globally, many relig groups have long supported public health iativ and wnsed the vastatn of the disease areas where was ncentrated, particularly Ai, among gays, and, the Uned Stat, the Ain Amerin populatn (Allen & Heald, 2004; Harris, 2010). Rearch has foced prcipally on the negative effect of evangelil relig intifitns, church attendance, and beliefs about the Bible on support for civil rights for gays and lbians (Brewer, 2003; Burtte, Ellison, & Hill, 2005; Olson, Cadge, & Harrison, 2006). And, predictably, evangelils, people wh high rat of relig participatn, and people who have errant beliefs about the Bible are most likely to oppose the extensn of marriage rights to same-sex upl (Gay, Lynxwiler, & Smh, 2015; Sherkat, Powell-Williams, Maddox, & Vri, 2011): this is te for wh, Ain Amerins, Latos, and Asians (Ellison, Acevedo, & Ramos-Wada, 2011; Sherkat, 2017; Sherkat, Vri, & Creek, 2010).

SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Neverthels, the issue of genr inty ntu to divi many the GLB muny, part bee they see genr inty issu om a homonormative lens—where the key inti are gay and lbian—and also bee of strategic ncerns—many the mastream GLB movement see genr inty issu as a losg e that will hr the passage of more expansive non-discrimatn legislatn (Vulli, 2010). Homosexualy And RelignSpecific relig groupsAbrahamic relignsJudaismChristianyCatholic ChurchLatter-Day SatsIslamIndian relignsHduismBuddhismSikhismZoroastrianismEast Asian relignsConfucianismTaoismPaganismRadil FaeriWicSatanismUnarian UniversalismHumanismCandombléUnifitn ChurchRelig groups and public policyThe relatnship between relign and homosexualy has varied greatly across time and place, wh and between different religns and nomatns, wh regard to different forms of homosexualy and bisexualy.

Among the relig nomatns which generally oppose the orientatns, there are many different typ of actns which they may take: this n range om quietly disuragg homosexual activy, explicly forbiddg same-sex sexual practic among adherents and actively opposg social acceptance of homosexualy, to executn. Relig prott agast homosexualy San FrancisHowever, some adherents of many religns view the two sexual orientatns posively, and some relig nomatns may bls same-sex marriag and support LGBT rights, and the amount of those that do are ntuoly creasg around the world as much of the veloped world enacts laws supportg LGBT rights. In the 20th century, theologians like Karl Barth, Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robson, Bishop David Jenks, Don Cupt, Bishop Jack Spong challenged tradnal theologil posns and unrstandgs of the Bible; followg the velopments some have suggted that passag have been mistranslated, are taken out of ntext, or that they do not refer to what we unrstand as “homosexualy.

GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL

E., homosexual feelgs or “temptatns”) are not herently sful, but engagg homosexual behavr is nflict wh the “doctral prciple, based on sacred scripture … that marriage between a man and a woman is sential to the Creator’s plan for the eternal sty of His children. Same-sex terurse illegal:Death penalty for homosexualyDeath penalty on books but not appliedAcrdg to the ILGA seven untri still reta pal punishment for homosexual behavr: Sdi Arabia, Yemen (for adultery), Iran, Afghanistan, Mrania, Sudan, and northern major Islamic schools disapprove of homosexualy, Islam views same-sex sir as an unnatural temptatn; and sexual relatns are seen as a transgrsn of the natural role and aim of sexual activy.

The Dalai Lama of Tibetan Buddhism terprets sexual misnduct to clu lbian and gay sex, and ed any sex other than penis-vaga terurse, cludg oral sex, anal sex, and masturbatn or other sexual activy wh the hand; the only time sex is acceptable is when performed for s purpose of procreatn.