The followg blog is wrten by Greg Col. Greg is part of The Center's llaborative team and is the thor of the book Sgle, Gay, Christian. “Is God anti-gay?” Many people expect the answer to this qutn to be a simple bary, eher y or no. If you’re a nservative ( the totalizg sense of the word), the answer is absolutely y: God mt be anti-gay, bee
Contents:
- THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
- QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
- WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
* does god accept gay people *
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.
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.
QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
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.
WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
The acceptance of homosexualy as an equally valid liftyle is rapidly growg Wtern culture.