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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.

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In argug this way, we’re not suggtg that homosexuals are somehow “sicker” or more “diseased” and “fective” than anyone else. 101 Frequently Asked Qutns About Homosexualy. The Gay Gospel?

THE POPE SAYS GOD MA GAY PEOPLE JT AS WE SHOULD BE – HERE’S WHY HIS MENTS MATTER

How Pro-Gay Advot Misread the Bible. Unrstandg Homosexualy. 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.

WATCH: 'GOD MA A GAY MAN' PROCLAIMS 'IT'S GREAT TO BE 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.

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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.

‘GOD MA ME GAY’

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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:.

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

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 . 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?? 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.

SO GOD MA A GAY MAN (OM )

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:.

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

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. Gays should be nsired to have been “born gay”—even though sexual orientatn, for most humans, seems to be the product of a plex teractn between nate predisposns and environmental factors durg childhood and early adolcence.

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

So, science says that God do not “make people gay” a blogil sense. Even though ’s a good example of an ner sire that most people agree we shouldn’t act on (though ’s creasgly beg viewed clil circl as a “sexual orientatn” like any other), most people will jt hear you sayg that “homosexualy is the same as pedophilia. Do not be ceived; neher the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will her the kgdom of God (1 Cor.

He is warng of the nsequenc associated wh acts of stealg, adultery, and homosexual behavr (for a rponse to people who say Pl and the Bible do not really nmn homosexual behavr, click here).

AdvertisementSKIP Casilli/RtersMay 21, 2018ROME — A Chilean survivor of cleril sex abe has said that Pope Francis told him a private meetg this month that God had ma him gay and that both God and the pontiff loved him that way, a remarkable exprsn of cln for the lear of the Roman Catholic Church. “He said to me, ‘Juan Carlos, that’s not a problem, ’ ” said Juan Carlos Cz, the abe survivor, scribg havg told the pope he was gay a long meetg the Vatin. ”The Vatin cled to ment on the pope’s private Cz had already said that Francis had apologized the meetg for the large-sle sexual abe sndal volvg Chilean clergy members, but over the weekend, he also told the Spanish newspaper El País about the pope’s remarks about his homosexualy.

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

”In July 2013, the pope rpond to qutns about a supposed “gay lobby” the Vatin by sayg “Who am I to judge, ” a remark that ed celebratn among liberals and nsternatn among nservativ. Cz add to the bate over whether Francis believ homosexualy is a choice. Vatin officials, however, utned agast terpretg the pontiff’s pastoral outreach as a five lg on the nature-vers-nurture qutn or as a change church Catechism of the Catholic Church stat that people wh “homosexual tennci” “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy, ” but also lls a “ep-seated” homosexual clatn and s acts “trsilly disorred” and “ntrary to the natural law.

Archbishop Matteo Maria Zuppi of Bologna, sometim lled the “Bergogl of Italy” for his siary to Francis, the former Je Mar Bergogl, published on Monday a preface to the Italian versn of “Buildg a Bridge, ” a book by the Amerin Ju prit Jam Mart about reachg out to gay Catholics.

“The tent of the book is to help pastors velop an attu of unrstandg, as well as a pacy for acpaniment, towards their homosexual brothers and sisters, ” the archbishop pope has been creasgly assertive over the sprg, five years to his papacy, pecially after he seemed hobbled by missteps on the Chilean sexual abe announced on Saturday that Ósr Romero, a Salvadoran bishop shot and killed by right-wg forc for preachg agast ary opprsn and Amerin meddlg, would be nonized next day, he rhaped the College of Cardals, which will choose his succsor. Cz, Francis was cidly on the si of the victims and entirely welg of the Chilean’s sexual Cz said that his lawyer warned him 2009 that the church would foc on his homosexualy, leavg him vulnerable and threateng to make life extremely difficult for said that his lawyer later told him that Cardal Francis Javier Errázuriz, a nfidant of Francis, had raised the qutn of whether Mr. Cz said, “I was gay and I might have liked .