It is probably important for you to know that about three years ago, our understanding and
beliefs about homosexuality underwent a major shift.
Today that same qualification, if the church teaches biblical
truths about homosexuality, is a detriment to one's candidacy in many areas of our country.
For example, if the preacher addresses the issue of homosexuality, he or she may deal with the specific texts that say
something about homosexuality.
A number of tennis players are calling for an Australian stadium named after a tennis legend turned Christian pastor to be renamed following fresh comments she
made about homosexuality.
It's the only
book about homosexuality and the Church that I feel comfortable recommending to everyone — from my gay friends to my parents.
What if one day we come to regard biblical
teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women covering their heads in church?
And yes, there are several other things that people of faith and conviction find to be morally wrong, but those seem to get washed away in the
discussion about homosexuality.
(I believe the OT verses do as well, but there has been some dispute as to their meaning) Finally Luke said the story of Sodom is
n't about homosexuality.
After all, my Bible talks more about the sins of not caring for the poor and orphans of our communities, about our pride, about idolatry, than it
does about homosexuality, yet I can't see a lot of to - scale «truth - telling» on those topics.
Professor King and his colleagues found a number of reasons were given by the psychiatrists and therapists for offering assistance, ranging from the counsellor's own moral and religious
views about homosexuality through to a desire to help patients who were stressed by discrimination.
«The Day of Truth was an effort to push a very specific set of
opinions about homosexuality into schools in a way that was inappropriate and divisive.»
«Ms. Nouvelle's»
remark about homosexuality concerned a certain adult and not a student, a distinction that was unnecessary for the purposes of my piece.
One of my gay friends said that Anyabwile's article was the most overtly hateful thing he has read
about homosexuality from a Christian blog.
I find that most of those who insult are homosexuals and because we «fundamentalists» believe the Bible and what it says
about homosexuality causes those who are homosexual or enable homosexuality hate.
Today this appeal is especially focused on turning what Paul says
about homosexuality into moral and ecclesiastical laws.
UPDATE: In re-reading The Four Loves recently, I discovered that Lewis did in fact
write about homosexuality, but mainly in the context of male friendship.
Perhaps Herbert's conditions are met in Uganda, or will be if that
law about homosexuality passes so merely advocating a change of the law makes one guilty.