What Are Relig Texts Really Sayg About Gay and Transgenr Rights? - Center for Amerin Progrs

Contents:

• BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
• WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• BIBLE'S STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY BIBLE SHOWS NO UNRSTANDG OF HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN AS MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE AND AFFIRMGALAN SHEARD, RETIRED NSULTANT PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICEAUTHOR RMATN COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE RMATN PMC DISCLAIMERWOODBECK DN22 OJJ GRO.DIA@NAEDTERCOPYRIGHT © 2000, BRISH MEDIL JOURNALEDOR—WAYTE QUOT SELECTIVELY OM THE NATNAL SURVEY ON SEXUALY ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY.1 HE IS DOG EXACTLY WHAT I REPORTED MY PERSONAL VIEW—DISTORTG THE EVINCE.HE SAYS THAT THE “BIBLE REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY CLEARLY SHOW THAT THEY ARE DISAPPROVG OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY (NOT ORIENTATN).”1 EXPERTS BIBLIL TERPRETATN BELIEVE THAT BIBLIL TIM THERE WAS NO UNRSTANDG OF THE MORN VIEW OF HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN AS MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE AND AFFIRMG.2,3 WAYTE IS RIGHT SAYG THAT THE BIBLE'S STANCE IS NOT TO “BASH HOMOSEXUALS.” LEVIC CHAPTER 20, VERSE 13 READS: “IF A MAN HAS TERURSE WH A MAN AS WH A WOMAN, BOTH M AN ABOMATN. THEY MT BE PUT TO ATH.” SO THE BIBLE'S STANCE IS NOT JT TO BASH HOMOSEXUALS BUT TO MURR THEM. WHY WAYTE OR ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO ASSOCIATE THEMSELV WH SUCH BARBARO AND HUMAN TEXTS IS BEYOND MY PREHENSN.WAYTE MENTS ON THE MEDIL RISKS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY BY WHICH HE PRUMABLY MEANS ANAL TERURSE. BUT ONLY TWO THIRDS OF GAY MEN TAKE PART ANAL TERURSE WHILE AS MANY AS ONE THIRD OF HETEROSEXUALS DO SO. THIS MEANS THAT MORE HETEROSEXUALS THAN HOMOSEXUALS HAVE ANAL TERURSE.4 WAYTE'S CRICISMS SHOULD THEREFORE BE PRIMARILY ADDRSED TO HETEROSEXUALS. AND THE NATNAL SURVEY FOUND THAT THERE IS NO GREAT DISPARY BETWEEN NUMBERS OF PARTNERS OVERALL.WAYTE SAYS THAT THE E OF THE WORD HOMOPHOBIA THIS NTEXT IS RRECT. A RECENT SURVEY OF 4000 KNOWN HOMOSEXUALS AND BISEXUALS HAS SHOWN THAT 34% OF GAY MEN AND 24% OF LBIANS HAD EXPERIENCED PHYSIL VLENCE AND 73% HAD BEEN TNTED THE PREV FIVE YEARS BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY.5 THIS IS CLEAR EVINCE OF THE “EXTREME ABNORMAL FEAR OR AVERSN TO” HOMOSEXUALY WHICH WAYTE RIGHTLY QUOT AS A RRECT (THOUGH UNGRAMMATIL) FN OF HOMOPHOBIA.REFERENC1. WAYTE C. BIBLE IS DISAPPROVG OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY BUT NOT HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN. BMJ. 1999;319:123. . (10 JULY.) [PMC EE ARTICLE] [PUBMED] [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]2. VASEY M. FRIENDS AND STRANGERS. LONDON: HODR AND STOUGHTON; 1995. [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]3. REISS M. HOMOSEXUALY AND SCHOOLS—A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE. LONDON: NATNAL CHILDREN'S BURE; 1999. . (SEX TN FOM LECTURE 1 JULY.) [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]4. BELL R. ABC OF SEXUAL HEALTH: HOMOSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. BMJ. 1999;318:452–455. [PMC EE ARTICLE] [PUBMED] [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]5. HEALTH EDUTN AUTHORY. MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTN AND SEXUAL INTY. LONDON: HEA; 1998. [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]BMJ. 2000 FEB 19; 320(7233): 514. » SUMMARY OF RAPID RPONS 2000 FEB 19; 320(7233): 514. SUMMARY OF RAPID RPONS

BIBLE VERS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

(Genis 1:​27, 28; Levic 18:22; Proverbs 5:​18, 19) The Bible nmns sexual activy that is not between a hband and wife, whether is homosexual or heterosexual nduct. The Bible don’t ment directly on the blogy of homosexual sir, though acknowledg that we are all born wh a tenncy to go agast what God mands. The Pew Rearch Center shared last year that the majory of people who approved of homosexual liftyl didn’t nsir relign important their daily liv.

And holdg to God’s revealed tth His Word ncerng homosexualy is even more dangero, ” Becket Cook wrote his book, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn.

WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?

“The nscienc of today’s Christians are beg rpted by the opprsive cultural i and the extreme social prsure surroundg the issue of homosexualy, but we know that the law of the Lord is wrten on our hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-33) and though we may succeed mutg our nscience, the Word of God is eternal, ” Cook said. At the heart of the claim that the Bible is clear "that homosexualy is forbidn by God" is poor biblil scholarship and a cultural bias read to the Bible. 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.

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

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.

BIBLE'S STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY BIBLE SHOWS NO UNRSTANDG OF HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN AS MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE AND AFFIRMGALAN SHEARD, RETIRED NSULTANT PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICEAUTHOR RMATN COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE RMATN PMC DISCLAIMERWOODBECK DN22 OJJ GRO.DIA@NAEDTERCOPYRIGHT © 2000, BRISH MEDIL JOURNALEDOR—WAYTE QUOT SELECTIVELY OM THE NATNAL SURVEY ON SEXUALY ABOUT THE PREVALENCE OF HOMOSEXUALY.1 HE IS DOG EXACTLY WHAT I REPORTED MY PERSONAL VIEW—DISTORTG THE EVINCE.HE SAYS THAT THE “BIBLE REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY CLEARLY SHOW THAT THEY ARE DISAPPROVG OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY (NOT ORIENTATN).”1 EXPERTS BIBLIL TERPRETATN BELIEVE THAT BIBLIL TIM THERE WAS NO UNRSTANDG OF THE MORN VIEW OF HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN AS MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE AND AFFIRMG.2,3 WAYTE IS RIGHT SAYG THAT THE BIBLE'S STANCE IS NOT TO “BASH HOMOSEXUALS.” LEVIC CHAPTER 20, VERSE 13 READS: “IF A MAN HAS TERURSE WH A MAN AS WH A WOMAN, BOTH M AN ABOMATN. THEY MT BE PUT TO ATH.” SO THE BIBLE'S STANCE IS NOT JT TO BASH HOMOSEXUALS BUT TO MURR THEM. WHY WAYTE OR ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO ASSOCIATE THEMSELV WH SUCH BARBARO AND HUMAN TEXTS IS BEYOND MY PREHENSN.WAYTE MENTS ON THE MEDIL RISKS OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY BY WHICH HE PRUMABLY MEANS ANAL TERURSE. BUT ONLY TWO THIRDS OF GAY MEN TAKE PART ANAL TERURSE WHILE AS MANY AS ONE THIRD OF HETEROSEXUALS DO SO. THIS MEANS THAT MORE HETEROSEXUALS THAN HOMOSEXUALS HAVE ANAL TERURSE.4 WAYTE'S CRICISMS SHOULD THEREFORE BE PRIMARILY ADDRSED TO HETEROSEXUALS. AND THE NATNAL SURVEY FOUND THAT THERE IS NO GREAT DISPARY BETWEEN NUMBERS OF PARTNERS OVERALL.WAYTE SAYS THAT THE E OF THE WORD HOMOPHOBIA THIS NTEXT IS RRECT. A RECENT SURVEY OF 4000 KNOWN HOMOSEXUALS AND BISEXUALS HAS SHOWN THAT 34% OF GAY MEN AND 24% OF LBIANS HAD EXPERIENCED PHYSIL VLENCE AND 73% HAD BEEN TNTED THE PREV FIVE YEARS BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY.5 THIS IS CLEAR EVINCE OF THE “EXTREME ABNORMAL FEAR OR AVERSN TO” HOMOSEXUALY WHICH WAYTE RIGHTLY QUOT AS A RRECT (THOUGH UNGRAMMATIL) FN OF HOMOPHOBIA.REFERENC1. WAYTE C. BIBLE IS DISAPPROVG OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVY BUT NOT HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATN. BMJ. 1999;319:123. . (10 JULY.) [PMC EE ARTICLE] [PUBMED] [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]2. VASEY M. FRIENDS AND STRANGERS. LONDON: HODR AND STOUGHTON; 1995. [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]3. REISS M. HOMOSEXUALY AND SCHOOLS—A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE. LONDON: NATNAL CHILDREN'S BURE; 1999. . (SEX TN FOM LECTURE 1 JULY.) [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]4. BELL R. ABC OF SEXUAL HEALTH: HOMOSEXUAL MEN AND WOMEN. BMJ. 1999;318:452–455. [PMC EE ARTICLE] [PUBMED] [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]5. HEALTH EDUTN AUTHORY. MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTN AND SEXUAL INTY. LONDON: HEA; 1998. [GOOGLE SCHOLAR]BMJ. 2000 FEB 19; 320(7233): 514. » SUMMARY OF RAPID RPONS 2000 FEB 19; 320(7233): 514. SUMMARY OF RAPID RPONS

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. 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.