The Practil Applitn Seri addrs five of the most mon qutns/topics asked of Christians today. Topic Three: Do God Hate Gay People?
Contents:
- QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
- PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
- WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
- DO GOD HATE GAYS / HOMOSEXUALS?
QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * does god really hate gays *
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice.
PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
In his Sunday sermon, Pastor Dillon Aw of the Stedfast Baptist Church said that all gay people Ameri should be "led up" and executed. * does god really hate gays *
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics.
As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn.
WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
* does god really hate gays *
A class qutns issu om hetero privilege to gaydar to LGBTQ racism. Are stereotyp about gays—for example, that gay men talk, drs, or gture differently than straight guys—bigoted blather? Or is there such a thg as reliable gaydar that helps people, cludg gays, to perceive others’ sexual orientatn?
You might not expect openmdns about stereotypg to e up a semar lled Queer Theology, which studi qutns about God and relign posed by gay, transgenr, bisexual, and genr-qutng people, many of whom, acrdg to teacher Pamela Lightsey, ask, “Do God hate me?
“As a gay man who do not live a world of all gay men, ” distguishg between straight and gay men is a safety matter, he said. At a party, he mt rely on gaydar if he wants to approach a gay man. “Have you ever h on a man you thought was gay” but wasn’t?
DO GOD HATE GAYS / HOMOSEXUALS?
And those sidg wh nmnatn of homosexualy? After class, Gray said that while sexual orientatn wouldn’t be an issue an ial world, the one we actually live is such that “assumptns of who is gay by means of appearance is judgg wh whom you n be safe.
As an upper-middle-class whe man who is gay, I nnot afford to believe that my sexual orientatn is better or worse than someone else’s race or genr.