Christianity and Homosexuality
During the last 2,000 years of Christianity many changes have taken place in how it sees people and their place in the kingdom of God. The Church has changed its views of people of other races as inferior, or savages, in need of salvation. They have changed their views on womens equality. They are even in the midst of making amends with and reaching out to Muslims and Jews. But most modern Christians have a more hardened view of homosexuals than they*ve ever had. Some see homosexuals as being in direct league with Satan, as they also believed about "witches". Gays are seen as a direct threat to society and to the sanctity of the family. Homosexuality is referred to as an abomination. Next to abortion, nothing seems to unite Christians more than the fear of homosexuality. On what basis do Christians form their ideals and fears of gay people? Why do they feel the need to demonize and disenfranchise an admittedly small segment of the population? Why does the Church work so hard to prevent equal rights for gays, and for that matter, to prevent homosexuality at all? These are the questions I hope to answer. I could simply answer these questions by saying that some people are just ignorant. But I believe that nearly all Christians w
Todays Christians have been taught that gay rights are a threat to Christian rights. These extreme views have colored and at time led the publics perceptions of its gay members. As far as fundamentalism, it is a movement like so many others which had a beginning and will have an end. Some interpret Pauls wirtings to be discussing the downfall of human nature and it*s unrighteousness as opposed to being specifically about homosexuality. Hardwick 1986, Supreme Court Opinion5. He reasoned that even though rape was bad it could still result in procreation and so could not be viewed as a crime against nature. The Holy Bible(King James), 1944, National Bible Press, Philadelphia,PA, Pps. The firstchapters of Genesis give us the story of creation. In Romans 1:26-27 he writes that "God gave the unrighteous up to vile afflictions, that women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. Gomes,Peter The Good Book, 1996, William Morrow and Comp. Also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one towards another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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