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Contents:

• IS CHRISTIAN BALE GAY? NO, CHRISTIAN BALE IS NOT GAY INSTEAD MARRIED TO SIBI BLAžIć AND HAVE 2 KIDS
• ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
• CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• CHRISTIANS SLAM PLAYBOY MAGAZE'S 'FLOOD OF EVER-GENERATG FILTH' FOR FEATURG YOUNG GAY MAN ON VER
• IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• CAN CHRISTIANS BE GAY?
• GAY DATG ATHENS
• BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
• BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

IS CHRISTIAN BALE GAY? NO, CHRISTIAN BALE IS NOT GAY INSTEAD MARRIED TO SIBI BLAžIć AND HAVE 2 KIDS

People assume English Actor Christian Bale gay, but he is married to his wife Sibi Blažić. Christian Bale is not gay; rather, he is married to Sibi Blažić, and the uple has two children.

Evangelil lear, thor and HGTV star Jen Hatmaker publicly changed her views on gay marriage 2016. He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights. After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012.

ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?

He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013. In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children.

Sce g out, he has wrten about life as a gay Christian and created a mic vio pictg his experience.

Although she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years.

CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian.

” This label om her posns on LGBT rights and homosexualy, topics she’s grappled wh publicly sce startg her blog 2008. In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong.

CHRISTIANS SLAM PLAYBOY MAGAZE'S 'FLOOD OF EVER-GENERATG FILTH' FOR FEATURG YOUNG GAY MAN ON VER

While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns. Durg her keynote addrs at the 2015 Gay Christian Network’s annual nference, the U. God and the Gay Christian is a book that seeks to teach rears that the Bible ndon livg a monogamo homosexual liftyle.

1 He garnered natnal attentn aga 2013 when he started his mistry The Reformatn Project and hosted a nference to teach people how to “reform” the church on the issue of homosexualy. 2 And April of this year, V ma news once aga wh the release of his new book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. As we broke down his arguments ncerng the creatn orr, we realized that God and the Gay Christian was not the typil progrsive attack on the thory of Scripture.

However, I want to turn to exame two of the key assertns on which V reli God and the Gay Christian: the ia that “sexual orientatn” nnot be changed, and the relevance of celibacy to his pot. And so, by analogy, V believ that his “orientatn” to homosexual behavr is jt part of who he is. ” Ined, there are many profsg Christians who have adopted termology such as “gay Christian” as a scriptor for those Christians who stggle wh same-sex attractn (SSA).

IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

Owen Strachan, assistant profsor of Christian theology and church history at SBTS, wr about the problem wh g the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who al wh same-sex attractn. Some Christians argue that while inty Christ is of first importance for a believer to grasp, we should also enurage them to mata this other inty as a “gay Christian, ” as a way of classifyg their experience. Many people alg wh SSA will be tempted to say what Matthew V has—that beg homosexual is simply part of who they are—and to treat that as a sendary inty to or as a replacement for their inty as a new creatn Christ.

Moreover, such a msage also ntradicts the Apostle Pl’s msage 1 Corthians 6:11 when he said that Christians have been “washed, ” “sanctified, ” and “jtified” Christ—and Pl specifilly clus homosexualy the list of thgs the believers had left behd. In light of that, what should believers make of Matthew V’s stance ncerng homosexual orientatn? V’s other key assumptn God and the Gay Christian is that celibacy should only be practiced by those lled to , and the men and women alg wh SSA who are not lled to celibacy should be allowed to fulfill their sexual sir through marriage.

It sends the msage to gay Christians that their sexual selv are herently shameful. Moreover, the Levil law refers to all homosexual behavr no uncerta terms as an “abomatn” (Levic 18:22; 20:13).

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

Homosexual behavr is s, makg the celibacy discsn relevant only the sense that a profsg Christian has repented of s such as homosexual behavr and abstas om for the rt of his life, even if that means acceptg celibacy and tstg God for the grace to live up to that ll.

He believ that the Apostle Pl simply was not aware of homosexual orientatn and wrote agast same-sex behavr out of ignorance:. That isn’t bee Pl was wrong—he wasn’t addrsg what we thk of today as homosexualy.

Wh the issue of homosexualy, a rapidly growg mory the church has chosen the path of least ristance and affirmed same-sex relatnships. The receptn of God and the Gay Christian among theologilly liberal Christian bloggers has been tellg.

CAN CHRISTIANS BE GAY?

One blogger, who is also a director of a pro-homosexual foundatn, reunts V’s fluence at a lecture:.

GAY DATG ATHENS

The re msage of God and the Gay Christian is not to “challenge” or “dispute” the Bible self, or to qutn whether the text is spired and thorative our liv as followers of Christ. Matthew V is not placg his own dividual experience as a gay Christian over the tth of the bible [sic], and he is not even challengg the words of scripture [sic] bee of his personal experience.

Rather—and this is an important distctn—Matthew’s experience as a gay Christian has led him to challenge his own personal, limed, terpretatn of scripture [sic].

Arguments for cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people fah muni have evolved over the past 45 years. Christians who stand firmly on the thory of Scripture when to homosexual behavr may want to lash out at people who impugn the Word of God, such as Matthew V, or at church that embrace such a mixture of worldly philosophy wh biblil doctre.

BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP

Takg on the tle of “gay Christian” and dismissg abstence om sful sexual behavr will not solve his problem, spe the elaborate arguments prented God and the Gay Christian.

However, the Bible is very clear that gay sexual activy is nsired sful and that a Christian is not to take part such activi. Romans 1:26-27 not gay activy as "unnatural" while 1 Corthians 6:9-10 lists same sex activy as somethg done by those who will "not her the kgdom of God.

In fact, Pl's list clus, "the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers" (1 Corthians 6:9-10). | (Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Becerril)Many people have nmned Playboy this week for s cisn to feature a young gay man drsed the magaze’s inic sexy bunny outf on s most recent digal ver. Dcribed as an “inic fluencer and social media personaly, ” the Filipo Amerin Rock is not the first male to wear the bunny stume or appear on the ver, but he is the first gay man to do so.

BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

”Brown agreed wh Morse’s analysis about the sexual revolutn, wrg that “the story of Playboy magaze is the story of the sexual revolutn, om s first ver featurg Marilyn Monroe 1953 to s current ver featurg a gay man drsed as a Playboy bunny. Brown suggted that a sire to ph back on the narrative that was “behd the tim” and “not lewd enough, ” “not racy enough” and “not phg the boundari enough” motivated Playboy’s cisn to feature a gay man on the exprsed hope that the Amerin people, cludg Rock, will “learn to celebrate a healthy sexualy, wh the bonds of marriage, one man and one woman together for life, as tend by God. ” In a Twter thread posted Monday, Playboy lamented that had received “far too many negative ments” rponse to releasg s “first-ever ver wh an openly gay mol.

”The Twter thread went on to ask “If a gay man feels sexy a bunny stume, an inic symbol of sexs, why shouldn’t he [be] able to wear proudly?

Do not be ceived; neher fornitors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemate, nor homosexuals, nor thiev, nor the veto, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers, will her the kgdom of God” (1 Corthians 6:9-10). While is unniable, biblilly speakg, that homosexualy is immoral and unnatural (Romans 1:26-27), no sense do the Bible scribe homosexualy as an unfivable s.