Pete Buttigieg on God, beg gay and Mike Pence

Contents:

• CAN I BE GODLY AND GAY?
• WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?
• BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
• ‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

CAN I BE GODLY AND GAY?

You will have to make cisns about whether to go to a same-sex weddg, whether to have your dghter and her partner over for dner, and whether to attend a church wh a gay pastor. In today’s changg world, statg that homosexualy is anythg but an acceptable liftyle, approved by God, is seen as unlovg, judgmental, hateful, and some plac, crimal. If you have read much on this issue, you know that there have been valiant attempts to reterpret the six passag that specifilly addrs homosexualy (Genis 19, Levic 18:22, Levic 20:13, Romans 1:24-27, I Corthians 6:9, I Timothy 1:10).

Here are a few articl that expla why recent attempts to biblilly jtify the gay liftyle are misguid: “Why ‘God and the Gay Christian Is Wrong About the Bible and Same-Sex Relatnships” by Christopher Yuan and “God, the Gospel, and the Gay Challenge–A Rponse to Matthew V” by Al Mohler. Our changg views on homosexualy have nothg to do wh what we’ve learned about man’s nature, but everythg to do wh what we have fotten about God’s character.

” On the other si of the issue, God’s hols and ll for to be pure n be exprsed whout grace or passn: “Gay men and women jt need to choose to follow God and that’s the end of . Few Christians who embrace homosexualy believe that was part of God’s origal perfect sign–that before the Fall, God created some of to be gay or lbian or bisexual. To accept homosexualy as a normal exprsn of God’s sign is to say that God is okay wh livg wh our brokenns, stead of seekg Him through that brokenns.

WHAT DO GOD THK ABOUT GAY PEOPLE?

If you’re a nservative ( the totalizg sense of the word), the answer is absolutely y: God mt be anti-gay, bee same-sex sexual behavr is forbidn the Bible. In the simplistilly “pro-gay” progrsive view, God lov all people, is therefore fully favor of all forms of sexual exprsn, advot for the legaly of same-sex marriage, and has no tert makg gay people straight. In the simplistilly “anti-gay” nservative view, God se same-sex sexual exprsn as sful and therefore advot agast the legaly of same-sex marriage, views gay people wh disgt, and wants to reem them by makg them straight.

The are all important qutns, of urse—but I want to addrs stead the qutn that I thk most often li at the heart of the matter when people ask whether God is anti-gay:. Perhaps ’s easier to say wh nfince what God thks about gay people once we’ve expand the qutn a b: What do God thk about people who are products of the Fall, people whose sexualy is renred imperfect by our Adamic geics? WASHINGTON – Pete Buttigieg got a hero’s wele as he took the stage Sunday at a fundraisg bnch for a group that supports LGBTQ improbable printial mpaign of the prevly ltle-known, openly-gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been generatg signifint buzz, posive headl, and large crowds important primary stat like New arrived at the LGBTQ Victory Fund event h off an terview wh NBC’s "Meet the Prs.

BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY

“In Buttigieg, gay Amerins see a symbol of acceptance, ” the headle the day smarter:Get USA TODAY's Daily Briefg your boxBut as he spoke to a packed hotel ballroom illumated wh lavenr lights, Buttigieg shared somethg that he’s still unfortable admtg. "It’s hard to face the tth that there were tim my life when, if you had shown me exactly what was si me that ma me gay, I would have cut out wh a knife.

The msage many gay people get that there’s somethg wrong wh them, he ntued, “is a msage that puts you at war not only wh yourself, but wh your maker. “I n’t believe that somebody that was ught wrg hh money checks to adult film actrs is somebody they should be liftg up as the kd of person they want to be leadg this natn, ” he said on "Meet the Prs" Jabson, an openly-gay member of the D. Do not be ceived; neher fornitors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effemate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thiev, nor the veto, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers, will her the kgdom of God.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

A person that practic homosexualy is jt as ungodly as any other human beg that is lost has no knowledge of the gospel of grace or has rejected the gospel. ” In fact, the vers date back to about 500 years ago, the webse which wrote this article actually spoke wh Ed Oxford about the word, and the g of the word, “homosexual. ” Also found , “So we went to 1 Corthians to see how they translated arsenokoai (origal Greek word) and stead of homosexuals said, ‘Boy molters will not her the kgdom of God.

So ncln, the word, arsenokoai, most likely do not actually translate to “homosexual, ” but stead translat to “pedophile, ” or “boy molter, ” and Levic 18:22 actually translat to, “Man shall not lie wh young boys as he do wh a woman, for is an abomatn. While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's progrs, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be seen wh today's world religns. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr.

Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea. Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

Our Christian hearts, ns the (ually impassned) argument, pel to grant full moral and legal equaly to gay and lbian people; our Christian fah, the (ually impassned) rebuttal, pels to cleave, above all, to the word of God. If there is no clearly stated directive the Bible to margalize and ostracize gay people, then is morally fensible for Christians to ntue to do so. Usg their posn wh society as spokpersons for God to proclaim that all homosexual relatns are disdaed by God, th knowgly ntributg to the cel persecutn of a mory populatn.

‘IT’S MY FLORIDA TOO’: PULSE SHOOTG SURVIVOR BRANDON WOLF ON BEG BLACK, GAY AND THE ANTI-RON DESANTIS

However, they ntend that they have no choice but to do the thgs, based on what they say is a clear directive about homosexuals livered to them by God through the Holy Bible. They assert that the Bible f all homosexual acts as sful, stcts them to exclu om full participatn the church all non-repentant sners (cludg gay people), and morally lls upon them to publicly (or at least rolutely) nounce homosexual acts. Whout an explic directive om God to exclu and nmn homosexuals, the Christian muny’s treatment of gay persons is clear vlatn of what J and the New Ttament wrers potedly intified as one-half of God’s most important mandment: to love one’s neighbor as one’s self.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Bee the sufferg imposed on gay persons by Christians is so severe, the directive om God to margalize and ostracize gay people would have to be clear and explic the Bible.