God vs. Gay? by Jay Michaelson (ebook)

Contents:

• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) PAPERBACK – MAY 8, 2012
• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN)
• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY: 6 PAPERBACK – 1 SEPTEMBER 2018
• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER ACTN / QUEER IAS)
• GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) - SOFTVER
• GOD VS. GAY‪?‬
• GOD VS. GAY?
• GOD VS. GAY‪?‬
• GOD VS. GAY‪?‬
• GOD VS. GAY‪?‬
• IS GOD ANTI GAY
• GOD VS. GAY? THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY
• GOD VS. GAY?

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) PAPERBACK – MAY 8, 2012

Review “The first part’s sistence that Juo-Christian valu require gay equaly is so nfintly and gently asserted that amounts to somethg new and vigoratg gay relig apologetics. Gay is an excellent rource for those stgglg to rencile their sexual feelgs — or those of a loved one — wh beg a person of vout relig fah.

Gay is a game-changer and highly remend the bate…Michaelson has packed so much to his slim volume. ”—EDGE“As a salvo the se for equaly, however, shows how to reame the bate and stop seeg a chasm between God and gay.

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN)

Gay?

For anyone seekg to unrstand how beg homosexual and relig are not anthetil. "—Joe Perez, thor of Soulfully Gay"'The irony of God vers Gay is that actually Gay and God go together. ”—Rabbi Sharon Klebm, Senr Rabbi of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, the largt gay and lbian synagogue the world “Through reful discsns of Jewish and Christian teachgs on homosexualy Michaelson masterfully reveals that both religns allow for the full embrace of LGBT persons.

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY: 6 PAPERBACK – 1 SEPTEMBER 2018

This relig-ethil work is illumatg and a mt read for anyone who wants to unrstand the current bate over relign and homosexualy. ”—Rabbi David Ellenson, Print Hebrew Unn College-Jewish Instute of Relign“Michaelson shows that ‘God vers gay’ is a myth and that the overwhelmg majory of our shared relig valu favor equaly for LGBT people. Is sential readg for people of all fahs who want to be alli of our gay and lbian brothers and sisters.

The myth that the Bible forbids homosexualy — the myth of “God vers Gay” — is behd some of the most divisive and paful nflicts of our day. In this urageo and ede book, Jay Michaelson shows that not only do the Bible not prohib same-sex timacy, the vast majory of s teachgs support the full equaly and digny of gay and lbian people, om the first flaw creatn (“It is not good for a person to be alone”) to the ways relig muni grow through nscient reflectn.

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER ACTN / QUEER IAS)

In short, Michaelson says, relig people should support equaly for gays and lbians not spe their relign — but bee of . Gay.

“For too long, relig voic have been on only one si of the gay rights argument — to all of our triment.

This is a book for anyone, gay or straight, who seeks to rencile their fah wh the liv of gay people — not by apologizg, promisg, or closetg one’s sexualy or one’s fah, but by celebratg God’s gifts of diversy and love. Joe Perez, thor of Soulfully Gay.

GOD VS. GAY?: THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY (QUEER IAS/QUEER ACTN) - SOFTVER

Should Gays and Lbians Argue Scripture? Do the Bible Really Call Homosexualy an ‘Abomatn’?, July 01, 2010 Relign Dispatch Discsn of the Hebrew word toevah, often mistranslated “abomatn. Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Relig Issue, July 15, 2010  Tikkun.

GOD VS. GAY‪?‬

Why relig people should support “gay rights” bee of relign, not spe . As gay people, we have a stake relig arguments which valu around sex are emphasized, bee they affect the polil arguments.

Jay Michaelson's eful book Gay vs. Sexualy, whether homo or hetero, is an exprsn of what mak most human.

Lerally hundreds of speci exhib homosexual behavr.

GOD VS. GAY?

We n ask legimately why homosexuals exist, but the answer to whether they exist is clearly "y. " The book is, as the thor clar near the end, "not an quiry to why God has ma people gay. As a famo button went, "if God didn't make homosexuals, there wouldn't be any.

" Homosexualy, Michaelson rrectly says, is neher a choice nor a changeable pathologil ndn.

"So, wouldn't society and homosexuals be better off if queers weren't so visible?

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"Homosexualy, " Michaelson wr, "is not a liftyle, but the closet is a ath-style" (p. If gay people are lled to any relig re, is g out.

Michaelson refully exam each of the texts, and leat narrow readgs that nnot be taken to forbid homosexualy. Michaelson turn exam the story of Sodom and texts om Romans and Timothy to show how they n, but do not have, to be read to nmn 3 exam why cln of homosexuals is good, not bad, for relig valu.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on 13 April 2016Verified PurchaseThis is one of the bt books I have read on the subject of what the Bible says (and don't say) on the subject of homosexual behavr.

GOD VS. GAY‪?‬

Jay Michaelson has helped to nfirm and clarify my beliefs that the nventnal wisdom regardg homosexualy is based on mistranslated and/or misterpreted snippets of scripture, taken out of ntext and quoted whout regard to the historil and cultural background that unrlie the ancient wrgs.

If you will take another ser look at the 19th chapter of Genis and the 19th chapter of Judg, you will unrstand why is my nvictn that the men of Sodom were not even gay. Mt read if you are stgglg wh God Vers Gay issu. The issue of whether or not homosexualy is portrayed as a forbidn s the Bible and Torah or not is often every emotnal.

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Reviewed the Uned Stat on 24 November 2019Verified PurchaseThis is the bt book I have read many years that advot for LGBT people not spe our relig valu but bee of book and Mel whe’s “stranger at the gate: to be gay and Christian Ameri” are the two bt books out there makg the relig se for LGBT equaly! Do the Bible prohib homosexualy?

:Introductn“God vers Gay” is a myth. It is unte, unsupported by Scripture, and ntradicted every day by the liv of relig gay people.

Relig nservativ, secular liberals, and lns of people across the gamut of Amerin polil and relig opn talk past one another, heated agreement that ’s eher “gay rights” or tradnal relign, the Constutn or the Bible. Pro-gay folks n’t see how anyone uld be opposed to equaly, while opponents n’t see how anyone uld change thoands of years of tradn. I’ve worked gay relig muni for over a , and that time, I’ve met thoands of people wound by what they see as the nflict between relign and homosexualy.

IS GOD ANTI GAY

So long as the false choice between God and gay persists, our brothers, sisters, s, and iends will ntue to stggle, ntue to torment themselv, and ntue to be exclud om their fai and of this is unnecsary. Not only do the Bible not say what some people claim, but the Bible and centuri of relig teachg Christian and Jewish tradns argue strongly for what sometim gets lled “gay rights.

GOD VS. GAY? THE RELIG CASE FOR EQUALY

” You read that right: for gay rights. I know may sound unual or even heretil to say so, but after substantial rearch (both wh my Jewish tradn and, as a scholar of relign and an terfah relig activist, multiple Christian on as well), years of soul-searchg, and years of workg wh relig gay people, I scerely believe that our shared relig valu ll upon to support the equaly, digny, and full cln of sexual and genr mori—that is, of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr, if you are someone who stggl wh the qutn of relign and homosexualy; if you are qutng your sexualy; if you are tryg to rencile your fah wh the sexualy of a iend or fay member; if you are a pastor tryg to rema te to your ials but passnate to your parishners; or, whatever your own relig or nonrelig views, if you are ncerned about the hurtful, polarizg tone of polil nversatns about homosexualy, I hear you. Before I me out, I was certa that beg openly gay would spell the end of my relig life.

“God vers Gay” had very personal nsequenc for me, and I have wrten this book both to save other people om the hell I lived through, and to clarify and crystallize what I have learned over the years. “God vers Gay” isn’t jt a false dichotomy. Today, most stat, I n be fired om my job simply for havg wrten this book and statg that I am gay.

Y, the gay rights movement has ma remarkable advanc, and studi suggt that wh a generatn, stggl for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr—the acronym is strange at first, but one gets ed to ) equaly will look like ancient history. And whether you’re for gay rights or agast them, you have to be ncerned about the way our nversatn has been takg place. Whatever one’s views on this ntent issue, surely we n all agree that sloganeerg, polil schemg, and lots of angry shoutg are not the bt ways to engage wh an issue wh so much relig and polil, gay rights are not the same as Ain Amerin civil rights.

GOD VS. GAY?

We mt have the relig nversatn—not to w arguments, but to speak heart to heart wh the lns of Amerins who are not bigots or homophob, but who are scerely troubled by equaly for gay have only barely begun this nversatn today.

The Bible forbids homosexualy, we are told.