When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians.
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
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 * 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.
QUEER THEOLOGY: DO GOD HATE GAY PEOPLE?
As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.
WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
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.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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.