For many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Christians, fdg acceptance wh the church n be a tt of fah.
Contents:
- GAY CHRISTIAN CELEBRI: A PECULIAR AND ALARMG DEVELOPMENT
- CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
- ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
- PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
GAY CHRISTIAN CELEBRI: A PECULIAR AND ALARMG DEVELOPMENT
Can someone be gay and Christian? Is possible to be a gay Christian? Can you be a Christian and stggle wh homosexualy? * christian power gay *
He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights. After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012. He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships.
CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
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. * christian power gay *
The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013. In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children. Although she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years.
As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian. ” This label om her posns on LGBT rights and homosexualy, topics she’s grappled wh publicly sce startg her blog 2008. In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong.
While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns.
ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
I’ve worked up a good lather the so-lled “culture war” around homosexualy and same-sex marriage for about two s now. 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.
PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY
Rather than beg notable for preachg skill, teachg abily, or amic rigor the new Christian celebri are beg foisted to the foreont of public Christian disurse bee of one thg: their dallianc the homosexual liftyle.
I’ve been very fortunate to be able to share my story wh believers and help the church unrstand homosexualy wh a biblil worldview tact; rather than viewg this s as an inty, we’ve got to see the s, “practicg homosexualy”, as a u of unbelief and treat and the sner like we would any other lost person. Neverthels, ’s hard to image that Thom would be anythg other than an obscure hoewife if not for her personal experience as a homosexual. Like Thom, Butterfield is famo for her past homosexual experienc and has bee a Christian celebry as a rult of her personal experienc wh a ntroversial s.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
“I thk we’re movg toward a time our society when, the next 20 to 25 years, Christians are gog to see a massive amount of persecutn when to the topic of homosexualy, and there will be no such thg as tolerance for Christiany. In her se, her vulgary and progrsivism is even more promently foisted upon the marketplace of Chrisan ias as rult of her stat as a former homosexual, albe one that still often projects herself mascule ways. He mak his livg not merely as an Anglin mister but also as somethg of a subject matter expert on Christiany and homosexualy.
In his book Is God Anti-Gay, ” Allberry shows om the scriptur that homosexual acts are sful and not acceptable forms of Christian sexual exprsn (I have not only read this book but have seen Allberry speak person).
However, Allberry matas that a gay sexual orientatn void of sire for an oppose sex partner n be normative for the Christian life. Includ among Livg Out‘s onle rourc is an “d” document signed to asss a church’s gree of “clivy” for Christians who intify as gay. Rather than take a pastoral approach which teach that Christians n be livered om homosexualy, Allberry has created a service anizatn which teach that a homosexually-oriented Christian life is normative.
THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
Dpe this ntroversial tactic, Allberry has risen through the Christian speakg and publishg ranks bee he has experience as a gay man. Christians readg the ttimoni of the var “gay Christian” celebri should take special note that none of them were livered om s and to Christ as a rult of Christian mistri specifilly targeted towards homosexuals. What has been done wh the gay Christian celebri has been done wh former cult members, alholics, and addicts, people the ttimony bs who are apt at tellg stori to a crowd to whom their experienc are foreign.
However, the Bible is very clear that gay sexual activy is nsired sful and that a Christian is not to take part such activi. Romans 1:26-27 not gay activy as "unnatural" while 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists same sex activy as somethg done by those who will "not her the kgdom of God. In fact, Pl's list clus, "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers" (1 Corthians 6:9-10).
God and the Gay Christian is a book that seeks to teach rears that the Bible ndon livg a monogamo homosexual liftyle.