Realizg that you're gay is sometim difficult. Matag your fah while livg thentilly as an LGBT person is even more difficult - sometim you feel ostracized or isolated om both groups. But you n fd a balance, and...
Contents:
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
- HOW TO RENCILE YOUR CHRISTIAN FAH WH YOUR GAY LIFE
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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. * christianity and gay people *
Some morn Bible translatns say that “homosexuals” will not her the kgdom of God, but neher the ncept nor the word for people wh exclive same-sex attractn existed before the late 19th century. Matthew V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and is the founr of The Reformatn Project, a Bible-based non-prof anizatn that seeks to reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty.
However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. Contue Readg >> and Gomorrah addrs gang rape, not a lovg stctn of Sodom and Gomorrah is monly assumed to have been the rult of God’s wrath agast homosexualy, but the only form of same-sex behavr scribed the story is an attempted gang rape (Genis 19:5)—nothg like the lovg, mted relatnships that are wispread today. When Colorado passed an amendment a few years ago prohibg special civil rights for homosexuals, Barbara Streisand lled for a boytt of the state, sayg, “The moral climate Colorado has bee unacceptable.
If there is no God, then there is no right and wrong, and don’t make any difference what liftyle you choose—the persecutor of homosexuals is morally equivalent to the advote of homosexualy. Jt as an alholic who is dry will still stand up at an AA meetg and say, “I am an alholic, ” so a homosexual who is livg straight and keepg himself pure ought to be able to stand up a Christian prayer meetg and say, “I am a homosexual. You might not expect to mentn a topic like homosexual behavr, but fact there are six plac the Bible—three the Old Ttament and three the New Ttament—where this issue is directly addrsed—not to mentn all the passag alg wh marriage and sexualy which have implitns for this issue.
CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
The book Christiany, Social Tolerance, and Homosexualy: Gay People Wtern Europe om the Begng of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, John Boswell is published by Universy of Chigo Prs. * christianity and gay people *
The third place where homosexual acts are mentned the Old Ttament is the horrifyg story Genis 19 of the attempted gang rape of Lot’s visors by the men of Sodom, om which our word sodomy riv. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the Kgdom of God.
” God’s plan for human sexual activy is that is rerved for heterosexual marriage: any sexual activy outsi of the secury of the marriage bond—whether pre-maral sex or extra-maral sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual—is forbidn. ”[5] Hollywood, Gay Pri celebratns, and the media are relentlsly bent on puttg a happy face on homosexualy, whereas fact is a liftyle wh very real dangers and n be jt as addictive and stctive as alholism or smokg. The clu anxiety, prsn, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, alholism and dg pennce, One tailed study[8] showed homosexuals to be, general, twice as likely to be prsed, to suffer phobic disorrs, to be pennt on dgs, to be pennt on alhol, to have experienced self-harm and to have need psychiatric help than the general populatn, while their happs ratgs were halved.
HOW TO RENCILE YOUR CHRISTIAN FAH WH YOUR GAY LIFE
Currently, figur for overall life-expectancy among homosexuals are hotly disputed, while preventive measur and treatments to improve their life-expectancy nsume huge amounts of money om Health Care budgets. First, if you are a homosexual or feel such clatns, while you did not choose those sir, as a Christian you mt not choose those behavrs or put yourself the way of those temptatns by the pany you keep, the films you choose to watch, or the fantasi you allow yourself to dulge . When homosexual patterng is laid down early before heterosexual patterng has been tablished, subsequent change may prove a real stggle, but remas a possibily for those who are mted to change.
If you fd yourself feelg glad when some afflictn befalls a homosexual person or you fd feelgs of hatred wellg up your heart toward homosexual people, then you need to reflect long and hard on the words of J rerd Matthew: “ will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgement for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you” (Mt. Although s unlikely that the biblil thors had any notn of sexual orientatn (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even ed until the late 19th century) for many people of fah, the Bible is looked to for timels guidance on what means to honor God wh our liv; and this most certaly clus our sexualy. ” In askg, “What do the Bible say about homosexualy” (or more appropriately stated, “what do the Bible say about attractn to someone of the same sex, ”) our task is to explore what the relevant biblil passag on the topic meant their origal ntext and what they mean for today.