Do God hate gays / homosexuals? |

Contents:

• WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
• DO GOD HATE GAYS / HOMOSEXUALS?
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• JACKIE HILL PERRY: GOD IS NOT CALLG GAY PEOPLE TO BE STRAIGHT
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?

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. 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. 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. First Corthians 6:18 says that sexual immoraly, cludg homosexualy, is a s agast one’s own body.

DO GOD HATE GAYS / HOMOSEXUALS?

If homosexualy rults a dishonorg, harmful separatn om God’s blsg, then the lovg thg to do is to stay away om . 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.

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.

Hermentics is what we do when we take a text and ask not jt “what do this say,” but “what do this mean?” 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. God and The Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships (Convergent Books, 2014)Jam V.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

This is squarely le wh the church’s official posn on homosexualy, which is that is “patible wh scripture”. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practise homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. The excerpt om Corthians, above, lists alongsi homosexuals, adulterers, the greedy and dnkards to jt name a few.

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.

JACKIE HILL PERRY: GOD IS NOT CALLG GAY PEOPLE TO BE STRAIGHT

At this moment history, ntrary to the other ss listed here, homosexualy is celebrated by our larger society wh pneerg excement. But not homosexual practice, not by those who are now speakg loust and holdg posns of promence.

As Christians, we believe wh ept scery that the embrace of homosexual practice, along wh other ss, keeps people out of the kgdom of God. This means is an oversimplifitn to say that Christians — or nservative evangelils — are simply agast homosexualy.

We are agast any s that rtras people om everlastg joy God, and homosexual practice jt gets all the prs bee, at this cultural moment, ’s the ma s that is so hly endorsed our ntext by the powers that be. Some would like to see this whole issue of homosexualy divid to two mps: those who celebrate and those who hate . And there are people who hate homosexualy, wh the most bigoted ratnale and apart om any Christian ncern.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

Distancg ourselv om both the left and the right, we don’t celebrate homosexual practice; we acknowledge God’s clear revealed word that is s.

And we don’t hate those who embrace homosexualy; we love them enough to not jt llapse unr societal prsure. The explic root-and-branch rejectn of moraly by gays has been real, pervasive, and baleful s effect on both the qualy of life that we create for ourselv wh the [gay] muny, and our P.

“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

There’s a simpler, darker reason why many gays choose to live whout moraly: As iologi go, amoraly is damned nvenient. “Gay-iendly” clergy tend to e the terms “love” and “acceptance” terchangeably, claimg that we mt love everyone, bee we are all children of God.

Anyone who has seen cursg, blasphemg homosexual activists simulatg sex at a “Gay Pri” para, or has read their hate-filled screeds agast the Catholic Church, should have no problem discerng whether they are children of God or spawn of the Devil. The homophile will always foc on “lovg our neighbor, ” so we mt ask: what is te love — turng a bld eye while our brother treads the easy and fortable road to Hell, or warng him of the horrible fate that awas him? Nowhere is this more evint than the piful spectacle of radil femists, abortnists, rpt policians, and homosexual activists masqueradg as Christians, proclaimg that they are “vout Catholics, ” and nyg that the Bible nmns homosexual behavr.