God vs. Gay? by Jay Michaelson (ebook)

god vs gay

As verbs the difference between god and gay is that god is while gay is...

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IS GOD ANTI-GAY?

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Christians, the church and the Bible seem to be out of step wh morn attus towards homosexualy.

So is God homophobic? The gospel is good news, for homosexuals too.

The myth that the Bible forbids homosexualy — the myth of “God vers Gay” — is behd some of the most divisive and paful nflicts of our day.

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In this urageo and ede book, Jay Michaelson shows that not only do the Bible not prohib same-sex timacy, the vast majory of s teachgs support the full equaly and digny of gay and lbian people, om the first flaw creatn (“It is not good for a person to be alone”) to the ways relig muni grow through nscient reflectn. In short, Michaelson says, relig people should support equaly for gays and lbians not spe their relign — but bee of . Gay.

“For too long, relig voic have been on only one si of the gay rights argument — to all of our triment. This is a book for anyone, gay or straight, who seeks to rencile their fah wh the liv of gay people — not by apologizg, promisg, or closetg one’s sexualy or one’s fah, but by celebratg God’s gifts of diversy and love.

Joe Perez, thor of Soulfully Gay. Gay? Should Gays and Lbians Argue Scripture?

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Do the Bible Really Call Homosexualy an ‘Abomatn’?, July 01, 2010 Relign Dispatch Discsn of the Hebrew word toevah, often mistranslated “abomatn. Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Relig Issue, July 15, 2010  Tikkun. Why relig people should support “gay rights” bee of relign, not spe .

A mon argument for the acceptance of homosexualy and same-sex marriage is that, if God is love, He would not nmn the love of others. The world and maybe even our own sensivi might say that allowg others to live a homosexual relatnship is to see to their well-beg.

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Romans 1:26 says homosexualy is disgraceful and dishonorg. First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body.

If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om . That beg said, those wh homosexual attractns are sperate need of love.

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Even if they agree wh the Bible that homosexualy is a s and rolve not to seek fulfillment of their sexual sir, they mt still fd love other relatnships—the self-sacrificg love of agape and the iendly pannship of phileo.

The need for love is no different for sgle heterosexuals than is for those wh homosexual attractn. If God is love, why do He nmn homosexualy?

Gay, the Relig Case for Equaly, ” by Jay Michaelson. When readg this statement my md raced back to what the Dalai Lama is on rerd as sayg about homosexualy.

GOD VS. GAY? THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY

” He nsirs himself fortunate to have journeyed so far and reason for his submergence to readg and scholarship was to ease his pa as a gay man. He adms that, “I don’t want to be gay. I’ve had homophobia graed me, and all thgs beg equal, I’d rather be straight.

But are gays and lbians gettg married today beg sctized and legimized? Gay got me thkg about the many forms of graed homophobia.

Consir the closet se who mouths homophobic slurs, or closeted policians who do not support gay rights.

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Internalized homophobia, however, n also effect the seemgly out and proud.

The are gay people who for one reason or another are unnecsarily hard on one another. As a Philalphia artist iend of me mented recently when his mostly-gay art exhib received good reviews om the cy’s straight reviewers but was panned by the only gay reviewer: “I got a really snarky review om a fellow homo! “What is wh homos hatg other homos?

At a loss for words, I uldn’t help but qutn whether a smatterg of ternalized homophobia, posg as telligent cricism, wasn’t at work here. Gay risks borg the rear wh the all too predictable re-examatn of biblil vers that seem to nmn same sex love, Mihelson has more tertg thgs to say about this than the average mentators of this lany. Pl, the problem was sexualy, not homosexualy.

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