Orthodox Christiany and homosexualy. A place of support for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred Orthodox Christians. Constctive cricism of the church's posn
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- TODAY’S MOST POPULAR ARTICL ASSEMBLY OF BISHOPS DECLARES PETER HEERS UNCANONICALA GAY MAN'S DORMITION STORYTHE TRUTH ABOUT METROPOLITAN SABA BY AN ARCHPRIT OF THE ANTCHIAN ARCHDCEFATHER PETER HEERS: PRIEST OF NOWHERE?"INVESTIGATION" DIRECTED BY THEN-METROPOLITAN JOSEPH HIMSELFOPEN LETTER TO GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION, BERKELEYARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER (GOLITZIN) ISSUES WARNING AGAINST FATHER PETER HEERS' "ORTHODOX ETHOS" WEBSITETHE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: FIRST WITHOUT EQUALS BY METROPOLAN ELPIDOPHOROS (LAMBRIADIS) OF BURSASEXUAL PREDATOR AND "FORMER METROPOLITAN" FINALLY DITCHED FROM LITURGICAL COMMEMORATIONPENNILESS STUDENT, INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ORTHODOX LGBTQI ADVOCATE SUED BY JOSIAH & CATHERINE TRENHAM, ST. ANDREW'S ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCHARCHIV
- ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
TODAY’S MOST POPULAR ARTICL ASSEMBLY OF BISHOPS DECLARES PETER HEERS UNCANONICALA GAY MAN'S DORMITION STORYTHE TRUTH ABOUT METROPOLITAN SABA BY AN ARCHPRIT OF THE ANTCHIAN ARCHDCEFATHER PETER HEERS: PRIEST OF NOWHERE?"INVESTIGATION" DIRECTED BY THEN-METROPOLITAN JOSEPH HIMSELFOPEN LETTER TO GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION, BERKELEYARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER (GOLITZIN) ISSUES WARNING AGAINST FATHER PETER HEERS' "ORTHODOX ETHOS" WEBSITETHE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: FIRST WITHOUT EQUALS BY METROPOLAN ELPIDOPHOROS (LAMBRIADIS) OF BURSASEXUAL PREDATOR AND "FORMER METROPOLITAN" FINALLY DITCHED FROM LITURGICAL COMMEMORATIONPENNILESS STUDENT, INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ORTHODOX LGBTQI ADVOCATE SUED BY JOSIAH & CATHERINE TRENHAM, ST. ANDREW'S ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCHARCHIV
For example, the Greek Orthodox Archdce lists homosexualy bi fornitn, adultery, abortn and abive sexual behavr as “immoral and appropriate forms of behavr and of themselv, and also bee they attack the stutn of marriage and the fay. A repentant, stgglg homosexual who reas om homosexual acts n be received to the church after the ual urse of stctn, but he or she would do bt to keep this matter the nfsnal, jt as is mon wh every other s. The persons say that the Bible and Church Tradn do not nmn homosexual behavur, but have been misterpreted and mised, sometim unknowgly and other tim que willfully, by prejudiced and hostile people who hate homosexuals.
The people hold that they are lled by God to stggle agast their homosexual tennci as all people are lled to stggle agast the sful passns which they fd wh themselv, while they work to heal the of their disorientatn and disease. Given the tradnal Orthodox unrstandg of the Old and New Ttament scriptur as exprsed the Church’s lurgil worship, sacramental r, nonil regulatns and liv and teachgs of the sats, is clear that the Orthodox Church intifi solidly wh those Christians, homosexual and heterosexual, who nsir homosexual orientatn as a disorr and disease, and who therefore nsir homosexual actns as sful and stctive. Do not be ceived; neher the sexually immoral (or fornitors), nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals (or sodom; lerally those who have , or who sleep, wh men), nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will her the kgdom of God.
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS WHO STRONGLY FAVOR OR FAVOR GAY MARRIAGE
It is not ma any easier by the mdls, tly monic hatred of those who spise and ridicule those who rry this paful and burnsome cross; nor by the mdls, equally monic affirmatn of homosexual activy by s misguid advot and enablers.
Like all temptatns, passns and ss, cludg those eply, and oftentim seemgly libly embedd our nature by our sorrowful herance, homosexual orientatn n be cured and homosexual actns n cease.