Can You Be Gay and Christian?

Contents:

• CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?
• THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

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THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.

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.

The Roman Catholic Church stat s techism that “homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy” are “ntrary to natural law, ” and that “homosexual acts are trsilly disorred, ” but most rmed mentators believe that at least a third of all prits are gay, not all of them celibate. 4:12-13) we will humble ourselv before the Lord, keepg our foc on J and askg the Father to give His heart for those who intify as LGBT, lettg the unequivol ttimony of Scripture gui , we will fd, what do the Word of God say about homosexual practice? The ttimony of Scripture remas unchanged: The Bible forbids homosexual is clear that the vast majory of those who have changed their views on what the Bible says about homosexualy and now believe “gay Christiany” have done so based on eher their own same-sex sir and attractns or their teractn wh “gay Christians” (or wh any gay or lbian person who challeng their assumptns) other words, they have not changed their thkg based on study of the Scriptur alone sce no new textual, archaeologil, soclogil, anthropologil, or philologil disveri have been ma the last fifty years that would e to read any of the biblil texts another way, is not that we have gaed some new sights to what the biblil text means based on the study of the Hebrew and Greek texts.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

Throughout the Word, the only relatnships that were acceptable God’s sight or nsired normal for society were heterosexual relatnships, and so homosexual practice was eher irrelevant (bee had nothg to do wh the God-ordaed relatnships of marriage and fay and society) or, if mentned, explicly give jt one example out of hundreds, when a gay uple reads the Word and they e to Pl’s words Ephians 5:22, 25, “Wiv, subm to your own hbands, as to the Lord....

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

A man pl a man or a woman pl a woman nnot possibly share the same unn as a man and a woman sce they do not share the sential of fundamental samens and rephrase the famo axm of John Gray, namely, that men are om Mars and women are om Ven, Mars + Mars or Ven + Ven nnot ever equal Mars + the words of a man who has lived as a homosexual all his life (he’s now past 70) but has recently found the Lord, “Even an atheist n unrstand the lack of anatomil plementary and therefore blogil purpose male-to-male or female-to-female sexualy. What the biblil thors rejected, we are told, was man-boy relatnships, or male prostutn, or homosexual the sful practic were certaly rejected, but biblil thors like Pl were certaly aware of long-term, male-male importantly, Hebrews 4:13 stat that “no creature is hidn om [God’s] sight, but all are naked and exposed to the ey of him to whom we mt give acunt.

The gospel brgs good news to homosexual men and theologians tell that the tradnal gospel msage is a “bad tree, ” brgg forth the bad u of prsn, apostasy, and even suici among gay men and the ntrary, the msage of the gospel brgs fivens, eedom, hope, and liverance, as untls thoands of ex-gays n attt, by which I mean followers of J who no longer practice homosexualy. For example, roughly half (51%) of evangelil Prottants the Millennial generatn (born between 1981 and 1996) say homosexualy should be accepted by society, pared wh a third of evangelil Baby Boomers and a fifth of evangelils the Silent generatn.

Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

“There’s been progrs, but I al wh people all the time om liberal relig fai who have faced horrible bigotry and rejectn, ” she, she add, the hunger for spirualy is ep among gay people — perhaps even eper than among the larger populatn.

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

5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig. Views about homosexualy18-2930-4950-6465+Sample sizeShould be accepted22%34%28%17%13, 119Should be disuraged13%31%31%26%9, 416Neher/both equally13%36%31%20%1, 089Don't know10%34%27%29%896Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state. Views about homosexualyYounger MillennialOlr MillennialGeneratn XBaby BoomerSilentGreattSample sizeShould be accepted14%14%28%33%11%1%13, 119Should be disuraged8%10%26%37%18%2%9, 416Neher/both equally7%11%31%37%13%1%1, 089Don't know6%10%29%33%20%3%896Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.

Views about homosexualyMenWomenSample sizeShould be accepted40%60%13, 312Should be disuraged52%48%9, 649Neher/both equally49%51%1, 130Don't know41%59%957Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.

Views about homosexualyWheBlackAsianLatoOther/MixedSample sizeShould be accepted64%12%2%19%3%13, 202Should be disuraged69%14%2%12%3%9, 520Neher/both equally63%14%1%17%4%1, 103Don't know63%13%2%17%5%912Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state. Views about homosexualyImmigrantsSend generatnThird generatn or higherSample sizeShould be accepted16%10%74%13, 182Should be disuraged12%7%81%9, 533Neher/both equally14%8%78%1, 107Don't know17%11%72%927Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.