WATCH: 'God Ma a Gay Man' Proclaims 'It's Great to Be Gay'

Contents:

• SO GOD MA A GAY MAN
• THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER
• WATCH: 'GOD MA A GAY MAN' PROCLAIMS 'IT'S GREAT TO BE GAY'
• ‘GOD MA ME GAY’
• ‘GOD MA YOU THIS WAY,’ POPE IS SAID TO HAVE TOLD GAY MAN
• SO GOD MA A GAY MAN (OM )
• ‘GOD MA GAY PEOPLE. AND GOD MA GAY PEOPLE GAY. THAT IS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW.’
• POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’
• “WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

SO GOD MA A GAY MAN

This vio ma by Crew magaze about how and why God ma gay men was released last year, but honour of Pri season ’s a great remr of why beg te to ourselv is so important. It is immensely powerful to hear that Pope Francis, the lear of the Roman Catholic church, reportedly told Juan Carlos Cz, a gay man: “God ma you like this and lov you like this. Lbian, gay, bi and trans people exist every muny, om every ethnic background and every relign.

Jt bee a thg exists – homosexualy, for stance – that don’t necsarily prove that the thg is good or healthy or sirable or part of God’s perfect plan. In argug this way, we’re not suggtg that homosexuals are somehow “sicker” or more “diseased” and “fective” than anyone else.

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Homosexualy, Theology and the Church. Inspired by the Dodge Ram Super Bowl mercial "God Ma a Farmer, " gay magaze Crewhas produced a touchg tribute to the strength of gay men, appropriately tled "So God Ma a Gay Man.

‘GOD MA ME GAY’

"Openg wh a phrase remiscent of the book of Genis, the vio clar that on the eighth day, God ma a gay man, and said "I need someone wh a will strong enough to stle rejectn om those who love him, to repel the abe om those who nmn him, wish him ill, ll him 'fairy, ' and 'flamer, and 'eak, ' and 'faggot.

So God ma a gay man. "So God Ma a Gay Man, " released by Crew magaze, plays off the now-viral Dodge Super Bowl ad, "So God Ma a Farmer"--a nostalgic two-mute sermon that probably left football fans all across the heartland cryg to their rn 's vio keeps the meme alive by pturg all that the gay muny has to be proud of--s victori, s stggl, s sacrific--and makg the se that gay men are, too, part of the bigger tone and the words all seamlsly mimic the 1978 Pl Harvey speech Dodge ed for s ad, but the vio is unique s ambn.

‘GOD MA YOU THIS WAY,’ POPE IS SAID TO HAVE TOLD GAY MAN

Every issue gets screen time: om AIDS and teen suici to anti-gay protts. There's even a not-so-sly salute to Print Barack Obama, whose recent State of the Unn addrs ma abundantly clear his foc on gay rights this term. If there's somethg you didn't know about the gay experience, you'll learn here--that is, if you're not too by fumblg for a tissue to pay attentn.

A ltle--well, a lot--heavier tone than most viral media geared toward gays, the vio pays homage to the gay muny's troubled past while highlightg the spirg opportuni to e. Beg gay isn't jt great--'s dive.

SO GOD MA A GAY MAN (OM )

On the eve of so much change, that's fely a lson to keep Crew's "So God Ma a Gay Man" below:WATCH: The origal Dodge Super Bowl ad, "So God Ma a Farmer".

In a speech at a gay-advocy fundraiser Sunday, Democratic printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg fend his homosexualy a remark aimed at vice print Mike Pence, a proponent of tradnal marriage. Insistg that his homosexual behavr and legal marriage to another man do not ntradict his beliefs as an Epispalian Christian, Buttigieg said:. If me beg gay was a choice, was a choice that was ma far, far above my pay gra.

The claim that “God ma me this way” is a mon slogan heard om fenrs of homosexualy. And if he mak some people gay, then we should accept .

‘GOD MA GAY PEOPLE. AND GOD MA GAY PEOPLE GAY. THAT IS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW.’

Some Christians rpond to this argument wh what seems to be the only alternative: by sayg that those who intify as gay choose to be gay. This rponse is ually met wh so much risn—“Wh all the homophobia the world, who would choose to be gay??

POPE FRANCIS TELLS GAY MAN: ‘GOD MA YOU LIKE THAT AND LOV YOU LIKE THAT’

If by gay you mean “a person who engag homosexual behavr, ” then God don’t make someone gay any more than he mak someone an adulterer, a fornitor, or a man who has relatns wh jt his wife. But when most people say, “God ma me gay, ” they’re talkg about attractns (which they nsir part of a God-given inty) rather than behavrs.

In orr to make that clear, when someone says that God ma him gay, or that he mak other people gay, you should ask two qutns:.

“WHY DON’T GOD ANSWER PRAYERS TO TAKE AWAY GAY FEELGS?”

A lot of people will say that God “ma them gay” bee they have had ep-seated attractns to people of the same sex for as long as they n remember. This appeal to personal experience is so pellg to so many people that Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, their 1989 “gay manifto” After the Ball, remend that homosexual advot work to persua the public that “gays are victims of circumstance, that they no more chose their sexual orientatn than they did, say, their height, sk lor, talents, or limatns.

But we should be skeptil of the ia that same-sex attractns have a sole blogil or geic orig (the “gay gene”). But tw studi have shown that homosexual orientatn is shared among only 20 to 30 percent of tws.