Gay and religion
Religion and being gay
I believe that if there is a God who created all things, it logically follows that he created lgbtq+ people too. I cannot believe that any god – being a fine, loving, infinitely knowledgeable entity – would create gay people with the expectation that they should be unhappy, lonely and repressed, and spend their lives in denial of who they are so that they might be tolerated by others and welcomed into heaven by him.
It’s beyond the scope of this website to discuss all religions’ views on homosexuality, especially since the bases for these views are prone to a variety of interpretations. Here I broadly attention on Christianity.
Though you might speak to God via prayer, nobody can actually have a two-way conversation or active debate with him. And so we have friends, family, teachers and priests telling us what they think God wants, expects or demands of us. I think that homophobia in religion isn’t really about God. It’s about how people who believe in him choose to interpret religious texts, teachings and traditions and how that is used to justify anti-gay behaviour i.e. some churches welcome gay members, other do not. Some picket funerals, s
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Religion has been a source of both solace and suffering for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans. For while most LGBTQ+ Americans have been raised in an organized religion — and many continue to cherish their faith community — too many have been forced to leave those communities behind because of condemnation of lesbian, queer and bisexual people.
And yet in recent years, a growing number of organized religious groups in the United States have issued statements officially welcoming LGBTQ+ people as members. Many religious organizations also have taken supportive stands on the issues that disturb LGBTQ+ people in America, such as the fight for liberty from discrimination, the solemnizing of same-sex marriage and the ordination of openly LGBTQ+ clergy.
Click on a faith tradition below for an overview of their position on LGBTQ+ people and the issues that affect them.
Please note that this list is not comprehensive. There are Gay people of faith in a number of religions not listed here including Sikhism, Native American religions and others. There also are many LGBTQ+ people who practice forms of spirit What Does The Bible State About Homosexuality? Introduction For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the equal sex?” Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the tardy 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality. Before we can spring into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a short but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible. What is the Bible? For Christians to whom the Bible is God’s very written word, it is widely understood that God produced its content Nearly half of LGBTQ Americans are religious, and a majority of all people of faith, LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ, support protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people. Myths that all people of faith contradict LGBTQ people and equality are fueled by vitriolic contradiction to LGBTQ people and families by anti-LGBTQ activists who claim to talk for all Christians or other religious groups. The rhetoric of these anti-LGBTQ activists frequently leads to media coverage that falsely positions LGBTQ equality as “God vs. gay.” Despite increasing religious acceptance of LGBTQ people, voices of those who contradict LGBTQ equality are disproportionately represented in media coverage: a 2012 GLAAD explore found three out of four religious leaders interviewed by the media on LGBTQ issues arrive from traditions that have policies or traditions that contradict LGBTQ equality. In 2020, a Center for American Progress (CAP) study of media coverage of LGBTQ issues establish that while 66.3% of the religiously-identified sources in these articles expressed negative or anti-LGBTQ sentiment, public opinion polling of religious-affiliated Americans suggests that only 25.8% oppose nondiscrimin What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
Religion and Faith