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Contents:
- POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
- IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
- WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
- IS BEG GAY A S?
POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
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IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
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WHAT ARE RELIG TEXTS REALLY SAYG ABOUT GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS?
The language is very specific verse ne that men that practice homosexualy are part of this and they will not her the kgdom of God.
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IS BEG GAY A S?
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. 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.