I hear stori like this om other LGBTQ Orthodox Christians and I thk for a moment that maybe we do need a Gay iendly Orthodox Church. A church where Gay fahful Orthodox Christians uld pray, nfs and mune whout fear of beg rejected simply for who God ma them to be.
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MY YEAR AS A PRO-GAY 'ORTHODOX' HERETIC
Orthodox Christiany and homosexualy. A place of support for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenred Orthodox Christians. Constctive cricism of the church's posn * gay orthodox christians *
For example, the Greek Orthodox Archdce lists homosexualy bi fornitn, adultery, abortn and abive sexual behavr as “immoral and appropriate forms of behavr and of themselv, and also bee they attack the stutn of marriage and the fay.
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By exprsg our stori, Orthodox Christians who are gay have the opportuny to hopefully one day change the official posn of the Church on issu such as sexual orientatn and gay marriage. On LGBT matters, if Orthodox progrsiv wanted to dialogue on how the Orthodox Church n better help LGBT Orthodox believers and their fai live out the tth the Church has always tght about human sexualy (homo- and hetero-), then absolutely, let’s do .
Neverthels, I thk ’s fair to say that most Orthodox Christians the US — que unlike Orthodox Christians every other untry but Greece — follow the general liberal social le on homosexualy.
Orthodox clergy and lay mt hold the le on moral and theologil tth, but if they n’t nmn celty agast gays, who are ma the image of God like every other human beg, then they have no moral thory.
The Orthodox Church has turned s gay fahful to outsts. Blogy dictat if someone is born gay. Beg gay is not a choice. * gay orthodox christians *
When I heard Nik Jovcic-Sas talk about what happens to some gay people Rsia and elsewhere the Orthodox world, I thought about my iend — a believg Christian who liv fahfully to the teachg, but who, if he nfid the wrong person, uld be physilly attacked.