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Contents:
- CAN YOU BE GAY AND RELIG
- GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL
- LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR
- SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
CAN YOU BE GAY AND RELIG
Can you be gay and relig? This is not about theology this is about the feelgs all LGBT people mt al wh rencilg their beliefs. * gay and religious *
”Even straight Amerins have ced their church’s treatment of the gay muny as part of the reason they’ve left, she add. Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall. “There’s been progrs, but I al wh people all the time om liberal relig fai who have faced horrible bigotry and rejectn, ” she, she add, the hunger for spirualy is ep among gay people — perhaps even eper than among the larger populatn.
5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig. ”Whether ’s too late for church and synagogu to attract gay parishners remas to be seen.
Th I ask the qutns n you be gay and relig? Gay and Relig Problems.
GAY RIGHTS, RELIGN AND WHAT’S WRONG WH PRCIPL
Eric M. Rodriguez, Suzanne C. Ouellette, Gay and Lbian Christians: Homosexual and Relig Inty Integratn the Members and Participants of a Gay-Posive Church, Journal for the Scientific Study of Relign, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 333-347 * gay and religious *
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No matter if you thk that is ok to be gay and relig or if you thk you n never act on your sexual feelgs. Below are rourc that n be helpful askg the qutn n you be gay & relig. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships.
But when he realized he was gay, those hop were lled to qutn.
LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL AMERINS ARE LS RELIG THAN STRAIGHT ADULTS BY TRADNAL MEASUR
The Bible, he’d been tght, nmned gay relatnships. Feelg the tensn between his unrstandg of the Bible and the realy of his same-sex orientatn, V voted years of tensive rearch to what the Bible says about homosexualy. • How should we apply the teachgs of J to the gay bate?
Unique s affirmatn of both an orthodox fah and sexual diversy, God and the Gay Christian has sparked heated bate, scere soul searchg, and wispread cultural change on the issue of what means to be a fahful gay Christian. Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays-vs.
But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay.
SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
In this groundbreakg book, Lee rells the events–his g out to his parents, his experienc wh the “ex-gay” movement, and his -pth study of the Bible–that led him, eventually, to self-acceptance. But more than jt a memoir, TORN provis sightful, practil guidance for all mted Christians who wonr how to relate to gay iends or fay members–or who stggle wh their own sexualy. Convced that “ a culture that se gays and Christians as enemi, gay Christians are a unique posn to brg peace, ” Lee monstrat that people of fah on both sis of the bate n rpect, learn om, and love one another.
He cid to e out as a gay man to everyone his life, and to see for himself how the label of gay would impact his life.