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Contents:
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND RELIG
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
- LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
- SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
CAN YOU BE GAY AND RELIG
Can you be gay and relig? This is not about theology this is about the feelgs all LGBT people mt al wh rencilg their beliefs. * can you be gay and religious *
Feelg the tensn between his unrstandg of the Bible and the realy of his same-sex orientatn, V voted years of tensive rearch to what the Bible says about homosexualy.
Unique s affirmatn of both an orthodox fah and sexual diversy, God and the Gay Christian has sparked heated bate, scere soul searchg, and wispread cultural change on the issue of what means to be a fahful gay Christian. In this groundbreakg book, Lee rells the events–his g out to his parents, his experienc wh the “ex-gay” movement, and his -pth study of the Bible–that led him, eventually, to self-acceptance. But more than jt a memoir, TORN provis sightful, practil guidance for all mted Christians who wonr how to relate to gay iends or fay members–or who stggle wh their own sexualy.
CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
* can you be gay and religious *
Convced that “ a culture that se gays and Christians as enemi, gay Christians are a unique posn to brg peace, ” Lee monstrat that people of fah on both sis of the bate n rpect, learn om, and love one another. A spate of books and vios and article and blogs would tell that, ed, that is not the gospel and that the good news of J is that you n follow Him and enjoy a mted, homosexual relatnship too.
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
4:12-13) we will humble ourselv before the Lord, keepg our foc on J and askg the Father to give His heart for those who intify as LGBT, lettg the unequivol ttimony of Scripture gui , we will fd, what do the Word of God say about homosexual practice? The ttimony of Scripture remas unchanged: The Bible forbids homosexual is clear that the vast majory of those who have changed their views on what the Bible says about homosexualy and now believe “gay Christiany” have done so based on eher their own same-sex sir and attractns or their teractn wh “gay Christians” (or wh any gay or lbian person who challeng their assumptns) other words, they have not changed their thkg based on study of the Scriptur alone sce no new textual, archaeologil, soclogil, anthropologil, or philologil disveri have been ma the last fifty years that would e to read any of the biblil texts another way, is not that we have gaed some new sights to what the biblil text means based on the study of the Hebrew and Greek texts.
SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
This is the guaranteed path to Word of God, which reprents His heart and will for His creatn, is absolutely clear on the subject, prohibg all forms of homosexual practice.
First, they claim that the vers have been mistranslated, misterpreted, or mised, and so, realy, the Scriptur do not prohib monogamo, mted, homosexual relatnships. There are a few, very strong, very clear, referenc to homosexual practice—every one of them cidly negative—and then not a sgle reference to homosexual practice throughout the rt of the Bible.