Bible vers about Gay Rights
Contents:
- IS THE BIBLE ANTI-GAY?
- SLAVERY, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE BIBLE
- A BATTLE BETWEEN GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG EXPRSN
- EVANGELILS OPEN DOOR TO DEBATE ON GAY RIGHTS
- THE GOSPEL ON BEG GAY
IS THE BIBLE ANTI-GAY?
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * gay rights and the bible *
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. What Do The Bible Say About Homosexualy?
SLAVERY, GAY RIGHTS, AND THE BIBLE
<p><strong>The qutn: Is the Bible anti-gay?</strong> Is there jtifitn scripture for the row that is spltg the Anglin Communn apart?</p> * gay rights and 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. ” 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.
A BATTLE BETWEEN GAY RIGHTS AND RELIG EXPRSN
Havg announced his support for gay marriage, Print Obama now fac the wrath of people who quote the Bible opposn. They have reason to be worried. A growg pluraly of Amerins accepts gay unns, and approval is strongt among the young. So, chang law are probably evable. But those who base their opposn on scripture should have a eper e for ncern. Time and aga, history has shown that people who ce the Bible as a reason to ny rights to others have almost always lost. * gay rights and the bible *
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice.
EVANGELILS OPEN DOOR TO DEBATE ON GAY RIGHTS
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.
THE GOSPEL ON BEG GAY
Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
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.
The bate over gay marriage is not jt takg place the natn’s urts – is also a subject of tense discsn the natn’s church. Matthew V, an openly gay, evangelil Christian and the thor of “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, ” has been actively enuragg nservative Christians to re-evaluate their beliefs about homosexualy. Caleb Kaltenbach, lead pastor of Disvery Church Simi Valley, Calif,, to talk privately wh a small group of evangelil lears to discs what the Bible says about gay relatnships.