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Title: Christianity Can’t Be Stretched To Endorse Homosexuality
Source: The Federalist
URL Source: http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/06 ... cfcb868ceb-59df1004b1-83889421
Published: Jul 7, 2016
Author: Glenn T. Stanton
Post Date: 2016-07-07 01:51:53 by redleghunter
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In light of the Orlando massacre, The New York Times published a forum of evangelicals writing on the question, “Have Christians Created a Harmful Atmosphere for Gays?” Two noted evangelical leaders, popular blogger Julie Rodgers and professor David Gushee, represented the “yes” perspective. Remarkably, they both hold that kindness and sincere friendship toward same- sex-attracted persons is not enough. Failing to affirm their sexuality does them harm, contributing in measure to demonic actions like Orlando. They call on Christians to repent.

Rodgers admits “The Christians I know were grieved by the massacre and they want to know how to help.” But she followed her recognition with this: “The best thing they can do is repent for the ways they’ve helped create a culture that devalues L.G.B.T. people made in the image of God, and then begin to tell a better story about us in their circles.” Not donate blood for the injured? Not prepare food for the families? Not stand quietly with and put a sympathetic arm around those mourning at vigils and memorials? These are some of the things many Christians did without hesitation that terribly dark Sunday and the days following.

Agree With Me Or Else

But we are told such things are actually harmful if not followed by full and unqualified affirmation of same-sex relationships. Gushee says exactly this, recognizing that the “typical evangelical” thankfully rejects “hate speech or any violence toward L.G.B.T. people” but cannot adopt “a place of acceptance of gay marriages, or of L.G.B.T. people in religious leadership.” He concludes that “even polite half-acceptance leaves L.G.B.T. people in a demeaning second-class position.”

They adopt the well-worn LGBT equation: disagreement equals discrimination, denunciation, and thus danger to the same-sex-attracted person. The conclusion is illogical and manipulative to the extreme: Either you fully affirm the sexuality of the same-sex-attracted person or we will publically charge you with the sins of bigotry and violence regardless of how kind you are. The accusation is vile. There is no other word for it.

Rodgers has a solution, though. If “everyone grew up hearing that God delights in gay people and we have gifts to nourish our communities, I do not think we would be targeted for violence or discrimination.” Can she honestly believe Omar Mateen and his ilk would never do such wicked things if they had only heard such a message in their formative years? Great evil happens, unfortunately, even from those who are wonderfully parented. Happy talk is too naïve for such a serious and evil injustice.

Christianity that Endorses Sexual License Isn’t Christianity

The problem the “gay-Christian” movement faces really comes down to this. Those who seek to rewrite historic and biblical Christian orthodoxy to sanctify certain sexual relations through hermeneutic ingenuity and accusations of harm are calling for a bridge that simply cannot be built. They must construct a whole other faith to do so. There is simply no honest reading of Jesus’ words and the rest of Scripture that makes room for any sexual ethic beyond the monogamous, permanent union of a husband and wife, be it gay, straight, bi, poly, or otherwise.

So how should we then live? Christ was clear. As much as possible, always treat the person before us with extravagant, uncompromising grace and kindness. Likewise, treat the issue of sexual ethics with kind but uncompromising truth. Jesus was unequivocal about what this truth is. He affirmed the divine and exclusive nature of the husband/wife sexual union and the singularly authoritative text of Genesis 1 and 2 on such matters. He doesn’t leave us much wiggle room.

Christians are called to live faithfully in the balance and tension between the grace and truth Jesus embodied in full. We are required to live squarely in the place where we love, affirm, and work to protect everyone, accepting them as fully human, as ones toward whom God has a fatherly heart. Of course, this includes the same-sex-attracted person, as no one’s sexuality cancels out his humanity.

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#1. To: liberator, GarySpFc, SOSO, Vicomte13, Don, BobCeleste (#0)

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redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-07   1:59:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: redleghunter (#1)

The Bible is very clear on Gods hatred of male on male homosexuality!

Elected and unelected Bureaucrats, leeches, and cockroaches are all part of the same family in the animal kingdom.

BobCeleste  posted on  2016-07-07   7:21:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: redleghunter (#0)

Rodgers has a solution, though. If “everyone grew up hearing that God delights in gay people and we have gifts to nourish our communities, I do not think we would be targeted for violence or discrimination.”

It's a game of capture the flag.

Vicomte13  posted on  2016-07-07   8:41:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Vicomte13 (#3)

It's a game of capture the flag.

Yes and a disarming yet threatening way to influence Christians.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-07   9:02:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: redleghunter (#0)

“even polite half-acceptance leaves L.G.B.T. people in a demeaning second-class position.”

All unrepentant ongoing sin leaves the sinner in a second-class position - in fact, a Hell-bound-class position. Live the chaste lives to which God has called you, and true Christians will admire and support your fortitude in the face of chronic temptation.

A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.

ConservingFreedom  posted on  2016-07-07   12:10:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: ConservingFreedom (#5)

All unrepentant ongoing sin leaves the sinner in a second-class position - in fact, a Hell-bound-class position. Live the chaste lives to which God has called you, and true Christians will admire and support your fortitude in the face of chronic temptation.

Indeed.

redleghunter  posted on  2016-07-07   13:07:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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