Pope Francis: Beg Gay Is a S but Not a Crime

Contents:

• BEG BORN GAY IS NOT A S.
• POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"
• POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME
• IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
• VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’
• IS BEG GAY A S?

BEG BORN GAY IS NOT A S.

Followg Matthew V' terview will be rpons om evangelil theologians, and fally, gut ntributns om Christians who have chosen not to engage homosexualy and those who don't believe a gay liftyle nflicts wh the Bible. "There is no ntradictn between beg Christian and beg gay, " he told arguments – maly agast six Bible passag that are monly ed by Christians to nmn homosexualy – are gag populary as evinced by his YouTube views.

In six months, an over hour-long vio of V meticuloly challengg what he lls the tradnal terpretatn of Scripture has garnered nearly 400, 000 an terview wh The Christian Post, V ma clear that he believ that Christians who believe homosexualy is a s are wrong. "Lovg, same-sex relatnships" are not addrsed the Bible, let alone nmned, he distguish between ltful, sual homosexual behavr and lovg, "natural" same-sex relatnships, argug that is only the former behavr that the Bible speaks Wicha, Kan., rint has already changed some Christians' stance on homosexualy, cludg that of his vout Christian father, whom he me out to jt a uple years has stated that he was raised a lovg, Christian home – never molted or abed – and a church muny that holds the tradnal view of homosexualy. He exprsed optimism that the acceptance of gay Christians will soon is a transcript of the What were the scholarly works or people you talked to that led you to velop your view on Scripture and homosexualy?

V: I beme more terted unrstandg the issue when I me to meet gay people for the first time high school bee when the issue is jt an abstractn, then is much easier not to talk about very much.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS HOMOSEXUALY "IS NOT A CRIME," BUT GAY SEX IS "A S"

But when you have gay people your life that you re about, mak you want to nsir thgs more once then I cid to really study the scriptural issu pth, what I did was, there are dozens of works of scholarship out there now on this subject om all perspectiv, and so I started buyg different books that seemed to be regularly referenced.

So havg many different nversatns wh fellow Christians about the issue, and also many different nversatns wh gay people about the issue, I feel that that was what was most fluential to me – this amalgamatn of experienc and studi rather than any other one work or In the vio, you give an explanatn about the scriptur that addrs homosexualy and how you believe they have been misunrstood by a lot of mastream church. A misunrstandg about sexual orientatn, bee very few people percentage-wise are gay, is very easy for people who are heterosexual to project their own experienc onto those of everyone else's; and then to end up margalizg and excludg gay people bee they don't really unrstand that they are not simply misbehavg by actg a different way and by pursug same-sex relatnships, but they are fundamentally different, have a different sexual orientatn. Let remember that God tends good for our liv and often His prohibns the Bible are to protect om tent here is to prent how the Bible speaks on the very sensive matter of homosexualy, not to be ammunn for divisive cred: ©Getty Imag/pamela_d_mdams.

POPE FRANCIS: BEG GAY IS A S BUT NOT A CRIME

Their society was bched and had gotten the attentn of God (see Genis 18:20-21) bee of their we see the first ias that the prevalence of homosexualy a society is a sign of their overall wickedns and that God will pass judgement on them. Many arguments exist today bee the ancient Hebrew wrers did not e a sgle word for “homosexualy, ” and is claimed that this is a valid reason to qutn the Bible’s thory to rm on this Hebrew wrers ed phras stead. J associat this practice wh the ho of kgs and the wealthy who he often intified as opposnal to God’s ntu the ia that a proliferatn of homosexual practice a society has to do wh the directn that a natn is takg regard to followg God.

IS IT A S TO BE GAY?

Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Th, as a homosexual feelg nflicted wh the church's teachg – that homosexualy is a s – he cid to take a leave of absence om Harvard Universy two years ago orr to study Scripture and dozens of scholarly works on the Wicha, Kan., rint went to his rearch qutng the "tradnal" teachg as has ed emotnal vastatn among gay persons the church, acrdg to V.

Also motivatg his study was a picture of a bleak future for him – where he would "always be left out" and "always be alone" while his iends get married and have years later, he end up producg a dissertatn that he believ "dismantl every Bible-based argument agast homosexualy.

VATIN BARS GAY UNN BLSG, SAYS GOD ‘N’T BLS S’

"But the arguments he prents have been rehashed om the work of such scholars as Fnish Old Ttament scholar Martti Nissen, homosexual New Ttament scholar Dale Mart (Yale), and homosexual church historian John Boswell, acrdg to Dr. Neverthels, V is challengg the "tradnal terpretatn" of Scripture, matag that Christians who hold this view are misreadg the arguments n be viewed an hour-long vio where he breaks down six passag (seven if you clu the Creatn acunt) Scripture that are monly ed to nmn homosexual Christian Post asked several evangelil theologians to rpond to some of those arguments. "But the necsary nsequence of the tradnal teachg on homosexualy is that, even though gay people have suable partners, they mt reject them, and they mt live alone for their whole liv, " he mataed.

IS BEG GAY A S?

He seems to nce the goodns of God's creatn of man and woman (which forms the basis for subsequent biblil teachg on marriage and sexualy), then claims that the current state of thgs homosexual sire is natural, and therefore good, for homosexuals. 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.

Yet, science sh a light on the way that relig texts are to be example, a scientific study published by the Endocre Society, blogist Jacqu Balthazart wr the is clear, however, that blogil factors actg durg prenatal life play a signifint role the ntrol of sexual orientatn and that homosexualy is not, for most people, the rult only of postnatal experienc or a ee choice. Sexual orientatn reprents a highly plex behavral tra unr multifactorial ntrol that clus geic, hormonal, and prumably immunologil termants potentially actg ncert wh the social postnatal Balthazart stat, “Homosexualy is not, for most people, the rult only of postnatal experienc or a ee choice...

Molecular blogist Bill Sullivan, PhD wr, “While there is no sgle ‘gay gene, ’ there is overwhelmg evince of a blogil basis for sexual orientatn that is programmed to the bra before birth based on a mix of geics and prenatal ndns, none of which the fet choos.