What Does The Bible REALLY Say About Queer People?

[Lakhota]

June is Gay Pride Month. It is a time for parades and for festivals, for rainbow flags and for dance tents. It is a time to recognize the amazing progress that has been made on LGBT equality as we recommit ourselves to continuing the struggle until liberty and justice for all really means "all." Everywhere.

And this year it is not only about gearing up for Pride; it is about counting down to "Decision Day." It is about awaiting the Supreme Court rulings on the Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee marriage cases -- rulings due any day - that could finally make marriage equality a reality in all fifty states.

So here's the 2015 version of my Top Ten FAQs about God, Jesus, the Bible and LGBT People -- offered in hope that together we truly can be the change we want to see in the world and offered in rebuttal to the rabid rhetoric of the anti-gay religious right that infuses our public discourse and infects our political process. Those who use God, Jesus and the Bible as weapons of mass discrimination do not speak for me. And they do not speak for my church.

1. Is being gay a sin?
No. Sins are acts that separate us from God and keep us from loving our neighbors as ourselves. Being gay is not a sin. Bullying is a sin. Being hateful to other people is a sin. Putting yourself in the place of God to judge others is a sin. Being gay is not.

Much More (2 thru 10): God, Jesus and the Bible: FAQs for Gay Pride Month - Rev. Susan Russell

Why do homophobes waste so much time, energy and hate being afraid of LGBT folks and trying to legislate them into the shadows? Fear and superstition, I suppose. I don't get it.

 

[Ernie S.]

Question: "What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Is homosexuality a sin?"

Answer: The Bible consistently tells us that homosexual activity is a sin (Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9). Romans 1:26-27 teaches specifically that homosexuality is a result of denying and disobeying God. When people continue in sin and unbelief, God “gives them over” to even more wicked and depraved sin in order to show them the futility and hopelessness of life apart from God. 1 Corinthians 6:9 proclaims that homosexual “offenders” will not inherit the kingdom of God.

God does not create a person with homosexual desires. The Bible tells us that people become homosexuals because of sin (Romans 1:24-27) and ultimately because of their own choice. A person may be born with a greater susceptibility to homosexuality, just as some people are born with a tendency to violence and other sins. That does not excuse the person’s choosing to sin by giving in to sinful desires. If a person is born with a greater susceptibility to anger/rage, does that make it right for him to give into those desires? Of course not! The same is true with homosexuality.

However, the Bible does not describe homosexuality as a “greater” sin than any other. All sin is offensive to God. Homosexuality is just one of the many things listed in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 that will keep a person from the kingdom of God. According to the Bible, God’s forgiveness is just as available to a homosexual as it is to an adulterer, idol worshipper, murderer, thief, etc. God also promises the strength for victory over sin, including homosexuality, to all those who will believe in Jesus Christ for their salvation (1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Philippians 4:13).

What does the Bible say about homosexuality Is homosexuality a sin

 

[Ernie S.]

Leviticus 18:22
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Leviticus 18:22


22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The Bible says it's an abomination. True story

 

[Figaro]

The Bible says it's an abomination. True story

Obamination?

 

[Stephanie]

You are the last person on earth that needs to BE throwing the bible up in peoples faces.

Everyone has their OWN opinions on it. YOU people don't like it.... TOUGH!!!!

 

[Lakhota]

Why don't NaziCons like equality? Do they prefer the Bible over our Constitution?

Scott Walker Backs Constitutional Amendment Allowing States To Ban Same-Sex Marriage

 

[Figaro]

You are the last person on earth that needs to throwing the bible up in peoples faces.

Everyone has their OWN opinions on it. YOU people don't like TOUGH

Just as radical Islamists say about the Quran: "You are last person on the planet to tell me what the Quran is saying about terror, beheading and raping! We have our own opinions (of course that mullah told us!) on it!"

 

[Lakhota]

Men wrote the Bible. Men wrote the Constitution. Therefore, the Constitution trumps the Bible.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Men wrote the Bible. Men wrote the Constitution. Therefore, the Constitution trumps the Bible.

Too bad said Constitution doesn't mention homo coupling, no? And I'll bet if you went back in time and asked the Founding Fathers about it they'd look at you like you have worms coming out your ears.

 

[The Rabbi]

Homosexual sex is a sin with the penalty of stoning to death. It is one of the most severe in the Bible. There's no getting around that one.

 

[Figaro]

By the way. What "obamination" is, by Urban Dictionary:
The disastrous result of doing or following the speakings of a smooth talker.
"This whole-life insurance policy has turned into an obamination."
"That swamp land I bought is an obamination"
Just in case someone doesn`t know

 

[norwegen]

Why don't NaziCons like equality? Do they prefer the Bible over our Constitution?

Scott Walker Backs Constitutional Amendment Allowing States To Ban Same-Sex Marriage

Both, actually. The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention were products of societies built on Christian traditions. And of a country founded on those traditions, as attested to by the Declaration of Independence.

The sovereignty of the individual and his equality to others by virtue of his birthright say nothing about equalizing society by decree.

 

[aris2chat]

Jesus welcome all people from lepers, romans, prostitutes, adulterers, tax collectors, samaritans, young, old.........it did not matter. He did not judge them, he wanted all people to be treated the same.

 

[occupied]

The Bible says it's an abomination. True story

The Bible says eating pork is an abomination and yet practically all Christians disregard that. If the biblical rationale is to used you should also be looking to ban pork production and see pig eaters as morally deficient sinners, hated by God and rightfully shunned by decent society. You pick and choose what you will disregard and what you will be obedient to. Using the "God's commandment" argument is but an excuse unless you try to follow everything in the biblical law books to the letter.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Jesus welcome all people from lepers, romans, prostitutes, adulterers, tax collectors, samaritans, young, old.........it did not matter. He did not judge them, he wanted all people to be treated the same.

He also forgave the adulteress BUT said "go and sin no more". He won't tolerate sin

 

[CMike]

Leviticus 18:22
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Leviticus 18:22


22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Not only that, it's one of the only sexual sins that is called an "abomination", and it's put right near the passage regarding beastality.

Homosexual behavior is one of the worst sexual sins based on the bible.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The Bible says it's an abomination. True story

The Bible says eating pork is an abomination and yet practically all Christians disregard that. If the biblical rationale is to used you should also be looking to ban pork production and see pig eaters as morally deficient sinners, hated by God and rightfully shunned by decent society. You pick and choose what you will disregard and what you will be obedient to. Using the "God's commandment" argument is but an excuse unless you try to follow everything in the biblical law books to the letter.

LOL You're quoting Mosaic and Ceremonial law, done away with by the New Covenant.

 

[CMike]

Men wrote the Bible. Men wrote the Constitution. Therefore, the Constitution trumps the Bible.

Too bad said Constitution doesn't mention homo coupling, no? And I'll bet if you went back in time and asked the Founding Fathers about it they'd look at you like you have worms coming out your ears.

Actually there are laws against sodomy.

 

[occupied]

The Bible says it's an abomination. True story

The Bible says eating pork is an abomination and yet practically all Christians disregard that. If the biblical rationale is to used you should also be looking to ban pork production and see pig eaters as morally deficient sinners, hated by God and rightfully shunned by decent society. You pick and choose what you will disregard and what you will be obedient to. Using the "God's commandment" argument is but an excuse unless you try to follow everything in the biblical law books to the letter.

LOL You're quoting Mosaic and Ceremonial law, done away with by the New Covenant.

That's my point, all the gay stuff is in the same books.