Gay people are going to hell
Homosexuality
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This article is part of the What Did Jesus Teach? series.
Silence Equals Support?
In a 2012 article for Slate online, Will Oremus asked a provocative question: Was Jesus a homophobe?1
The article was occasioned by a story about a gay teenager in Ohio who was suing his tall school after university officials prohibited him from wearing a T-shirt that said, “Jesus Is Not a Homophobe.”
Oremus was less concerned about the legal issues of the story than he was about the accuracy of the utterance on the shirt. Oremus suggests that Jesus’s views on homosexuality were more inclusive than Paul’s. He writes,
While it’s reasonable to presume that Jesus and his fellow Jews in first-century Palestine would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no record of his ever having mentioned homosexuality, let alone expressed particular revulsion about it. . . . Never in the Bible does Jesus himself offer an explicit prohibition of homosexuality.
Oremus seems to advise that since Jesus never explicitly mentioned homosexuality, he must not have been very concerned about it.
There are at least two reasons that we should be skeptical of this view.
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Traditionally, Christianity has considered same-sex attraction to be sinful. A lot of LGBTQ+ people interrogate their Christian views and worry about their soul as they try to figure out who they are.
But just as our cultural views of sexuality have changed, so have our religious views. Religious leaders are grappling with whether scripture regarding homosexuality and queer marriage should be reinterpreted.
“When it comes right down to it, you cherish people the way Jesus loved people, and you avoid the political questions,” Dr. Timothy Kovalcik, a Millikin history and political science professor, said. “You love the people in front of you regardless of who they are and what they’re doing, regardless of what you consider about it. That’s the ultimate underlying principle.”
Kovalcik serves as the Scholar-in-Residence at Decatur’s Westminster Presbyterian Church. Kovalcik’s church has not made an official remark on their views of homosexuality. The congregation sees it as a “political time bomb” and “distraction.”
But he acknowledges that a lot of people acquire questions about religion and sexuality.
“I would say what unfortunately could b
This I Believe: Gay Forever, Hell For Never
You’re going to hell. Yes, you, the young male wearing the boisterous shirt, scarf, and skinny jeans. Yes, you, the student tutor with a 3.8 GPA, who aspires to have a family, who has goals for your life and a career in mind and who was baptized in a Southern Baptist church? none of that matters when the Truthfulness is that you aren’t organic and neither are your actions.
The previous paragraph is what much of the LGBT (Lesbian, Queer , Bisexual, & Transgender) community hears on a daily basis from “Christians” everywhere. As a juvenile gay man, I have learned to hide it in front of “those” people; the ones who I know will condemn me for wearing eyeliner in public or holding my boyfriend’s hand. I have quickly learned that in their eyes it doesn’t matter what kind of home I was raised in, what kind of childhood I had, or how many scriptures I memorized between the ages of five and twelve. None of it matters as distant as I want to inhabit happily ever after with my handsome prince instead of the stereotypical and “normal” princess that society wishes for me to have.
My God and I own talked about the fact that I
“Am I Going to Hell?”
Traditionally, Christianity has considered same-sex attraction to be sinful. A lot of LGBTQ+ people interrogate their Christian views and worry about their soul as they try to figure out who they are.
But just as our cultural views of sexuality have changed, so have our religious views. Religious leaders are grappling with whether scripture regarding homosexuality and queer marriage should be reinterpreted.
“When it comes right down to it, you cherish people the way Jesus loved people, and you avoid the political questions,” Dr. Timothy Kovalcik, a Millikin history and political science professor, said. “You love the people in front of you regardless of who they are and what they’re doing, regardless of what you consider about it. That’s the ultimate underlying principle.”
Kovalcik serves as the Scholar-in-Residence at Decatur’s Westminster Presbyterian Church. Kovalcik’s church has not made an official remark on their views of homosexuality. The congregation sees it as a “political time bomb” and “distraction.”
But he acknowledges that a lot of people acquire questions about religion and sexuality.
“I would say what unfortunately could b
This I Believe: Gay Forever, Hell For Never
You’re going to hell. Yes, you, the young male wearing the boisterous shirt, scarf, and skinny jeans. Yes, you, the student tutor with a 3.8 GPA, who aspires to have a family, who has goals for your life and a career in mind and who was baptized in a Southern Baptist church? none of that matters when the Truthfulness is that you aren’t organic and neither are your actions.
The previous paragraph is what much of the LGBT (Lesbian, Queer , Bisexual, & Transgender) community hears on a daily basis from “Christians” everywhere. As a juvenile gay man, I have learned to hide it in front of “those” people; the ones who I know will condemn me for wearing eyeliner in public or holding my boyfriend’s hand. I have quickly learned that in their eyes it doesn’t matter what kind of home I was raised in, what kind of childhood I had, or how many scriptures I memorized between the ages of five and twelve. None of it matters as distant as I want to inhabit happily ever after with my handsome prince instead of the stereotypical and “normal” princess that society wishes for me to have.
My God and I own talked about the fact that I