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.
Contents:
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
- GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
- IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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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. Contue Readg >> and Gomorrah addrs gang rape, not a lovg stctn of Sodom and Gomorrah is monly assumed to have been the rult of God’s wrath agast homosexualy, but the only form of same-sex behavr scribed the story is an attempted gang rape (Genis 19:5)—nothg like the lovg, mted relatnships that are wispread today.
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. "It's only been a ltle over a that our own movement has e to unrstand homosexualy and genr inty different ways, " says Rabbi Jab Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbil Assembly, an ternatnal associatn of rabbis the Conservative tradn. "We basilly looked at the tradn and began to unrstand that the Jewish value of Kevod HaBeriyot, the digny of every dividual, is equal to or even tak precence over some of our olr tradn around attus toward homosexualy, " Blumenthal says.
" "And the qutn I always ask my brothers and sisters the nservative nomatns, " Robson says, "is, 'Could be that God is leadg to a eper tth about gay and lbian, bisexual, transgenr people? 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.
THE GROUND HAS SHIFTED ON GAY MARRIAGE FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
A gay ach was fired om a nservative Christian llege Beaver County. * christianity and gay rights *
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.
GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
While ncerns about the ordance’s lack of relig liberty protectns buoyed her effort, Bryant’s rhetoric about the threat gay people ostensibly posed to children was the mpaign’s lastg legacy. While praisg her urage and ldg her for “emphasizg that God lov the homosexual, ” Graham also suggted that he would not have said “some thgs she and her associat said … the same way.
Graham add that, while he saw his votn as foced on preachg the gospel, he “was also fearful that her mpaign might galvanize and brg out to the open homosexualy throughout the untry, so that homosexuals would end up a stronger posn. As Ta Fetner argu How the Relig Right Shaped Lbian and Gay Activism, Bryant and Briggs advertently revigorated what had been an creasgly dormant movement, givg a more ant and opposnal edge than had prevly.
Activists personalized the issue for the first time: Openly gay polician Harvey Milk enuraged people to e out of the closet to their iends and neighbors, rhapg public opn about the challeng they faced. When vio was disvered showg Bay had pared gay people to maggots, the FRC argued that he was given the award not for his “misstatements” but for “his example of standg for the tth and for his 42 years of mistry.
IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
It also fets that the gay liberatn movement was a direct rponse to the systemic and pervasive excln of lbian and gay dividuals om the stctur of our public life—cludg om Ameri self.
Ironilly, though, the pathologizatn of homosexualy ed to jtify the mid-century rtrictns cleared the ground for both the assertn of “gay pri” on the one si and the failgs of the “ex-gay spokmen” on the other.