Comments on: Can a Christian Support Gay Rights?

By: Ry

Ry — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:45:49 +0000

I believe you can be Christian and gay, so I definitely believe you can be Christian and support gays. I myself am a gay & Christian. I have been to a Christian counselor who left the gay lifestyle and he also believes you can be gay and Christian, but that it's not God's best. The reason he believes this is because he got saved in a gay AA meeting. I've been to an AA meeting before as a visitor and I've seen a lesbian give thanks to God for her recovery. The Bible says, “By their fruits you will recognize them,” and it's true. Read http://www.jeramyt.org/gay.htm... if you would like more theological interpetations of scripture that are more liberal on the view of homosexuality.

But, if I were wrong and homosexuality were wrong, then yes, I still believe you can be a Christian and support gays. It's not your right to force your beliefs on others. Supporting gays means you support their right to freedom and freedom of religion and choice.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:20:36 +0000

The terminology of “rights” always relates to what individuals are empowered to have by way of whatever law they come under. So I don’t see it as hypocritical for a Christian to support “gay rights”, under U.S. law. They are entitled to a U.S. citizen’s standard of living/quality of life regardless of their homosexuality – they are still humans, they just live a lifestyle that deviates from the societal norm. (I believe the Nazi’s practiced dehumanization of a people group). That doesn’t mean I personally condone their lifestyle choice.
God loves them, so should we, they are his children, whether they receive that or not is their choice, it’s available. If they do receive it and God’s salvation through Christ, they may still have a weakness/sin/temptation for practicing homosexuality while they mature as a Christian. All Christians struggle in some respect with various weaknesses/sin/temptations.
As for the concept of covenant, heterosexual marriage is not the only form of covenant there is. There are covenants in the Bible between, God and men, kings and men, men and men etc. The defining difference is that in this case the relationship proposed includes a sexual element between two people of the same sex. This is something that God/the Bible says is not a “practice” of those who will inherit the kingdom of God. By practice I take that as an intentional choice, not the case where a homosexual receives salvation but then still struggles with it as a Christian.
I have found that as I intellectually mature that I see things in an infinite shades of grey (with a compassionate bias) rather than just black & white (upholding the law bias), so new Christians may wan’t to reserve judgement that their initial view of things might not be their final view of things just like I am open to say that I might be wrong on this. I reserve judgement on my comments because I am still unsure of the longer-term impact on society of accepting into the fold of “normality” a lifestyle which may have detrimental cultural influences that affect more people than it helps of which I am as yet ignorant.

I appreciate you bringing this topic up for consideration. Thanks.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:30:01 +0000

I think Denny Burk has confused divine revelation with human confidence. Not that I’m surprised…