Columnist Rick Lance tak a look at J' teachgs and how Christ would rpond to the current bate over gay marriage.
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31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
There are few biblil vers that addrs homosexualy at all, and most of those are not directed at homosexualy per se. Opponents of same-sex marriage routely ce seven vers the Christian Bible as nmng homosexualy and llg a s. But when taken ntext, the lsons speak not agast homosexualy self, but rather agast rape, child moltatn, btialy, and other practic that hurt others and promise a person’s relatnship wh God.
J never said one word agast homosexualy. Never once did J refer to what we ll homosexualy as a s. Although opponents of same-sex marriage claim that lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr unns vlate biblil prcipl, no vers the Bible explicly addrs gay marriage or mted same-sex relatnships.
In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe?
FIRST-PERSON: THE GAY MARRIAGE BATE: HOW WOULD J RPOND?
The article was ocsned by a story about a gay teenager Oh who was sug his high school after school officials prohibed him om wearg a T-shirt that said, “J Is Not a Homophobe. Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s.
While ’s reasonable to assume that J and his fellow Jews first-century Palte would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no rerd of his ever havg mentned homosexualy, let alone exprsed particular revulsn about .... Never the Bible do J himself offer an explic prohibn of homosexualy. Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about .
Get a ee py of the ebook ‘What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy? It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy. So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn.