Contents:
- 31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- 31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
- MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe? 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?
31 BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
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.
Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them.... In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God. On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals.
On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals. Dpe the hang-ups of people like Pl, J was not a homophobe.
GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS
Wh clary and passn, this book sets forth the Bible’s teachg on sexualy om a plementarian perspective, alg wh ntroversial issu such as homosexualy and polygamy. Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe? 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.
MORMON CHURCH VOIC SUPPORT FOR SENATE BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
The bate over gay marriage is not jt takg place the natn’s urts – is also a subject of tense discsn the natn’s church. Matthew V, an openly gay, evangelil Christian and the thor of “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, ” has been actively enuragg nservative Christians to re-evaluate their beliefs about homosexualy.
Caleb Kaltenbach, lead pastor of Disvery Church Simi Valley, Calif,, to talk privately wh a small group of evangelil lears to discs what the Bible says about gay relatnships. Kaltenbach is the thor of the forthg book “Msy Grace, ” which is about how he rencil his nservative Christian nvictns wh his experience as the child of gay the ssn, they were each asked to terpret some of the most ced vers relatg to homosexualy the Bible. Author of “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships.