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hi
beautiful people last week's video part
1
is devoted to anyone anti-lgbtq
whether you're homophobic or just a
well-meaning christian that believes
being gay as a sin
that video is devoted to you with love
but this video
part two goes out to the lgbtq community
and all its advocates and goddess gray
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and on next week i'm talking eating
disorders with my friends claire harper
flood and joe hartzler now i'll respond
to the six things christians say
when arguing against homosexuality we're
gonna start off emotional and dive hard
into the bible for number six
number one heterosexual married sex is
the most amazing euphoric thing you'll
ever experience
wow wow wow my life is complete lgbtq
folks
i cannot relate to you completely but i
do know shame
pastors told me that if i lost my
virginity
i would be like a dirty glass of water
or half eaten candy bar or chewed up
bubble gum and
even if premarital sex is a sin no one
should be told that their entire worth
is in their virginity also pastors would
give horny messages and set up
unrealistic expectations we were made to
believe
married sex is like the most euphoric
end-all
be-all of all human experience god
does have an incredible design for sex
saving yourself can be beautiful
i do not discourage that as an
autonomous choice
but doing so out of fear and guilt can
be very damaging for example
some christian couples don't engage in
dating foreplay
and therefore some women have reported
to feeling scared or even violated on
their wedding night
because years of programming sex is a
sin
sex is a sin doesn't just disappear
because you wore a white dress
one day after years of my own pain i
am a christian advocate for sexual
liberation
sexual liberation is not about
promiscuity
or being free to sin it is about having
the freedom to align yourself
mind body and soul which is something i
truly believe
god calls us to because when you think a
part of yourself your sexuality
is innately evil or wrong you are forced
to compartmentalize
my sex life here god here and that
causes discord and pain instead i
encourage you to welcome
god into your sex life i can hear the
sound of atheists laughing
like what i'm being serious i encourage
christians even if you're messing up or
sinning to welcome god into your
intimacy
because that's the only way to get
clarity and peace
number two it's adam and eve not adam
and steve
one man one woman for an entire
lifetime here's the difference with
shame i as a heterosexual woman was
taught that i would be a worthless bride
if i wasn't a virgin whereas you as a
homosexual are taught that
all of your sex regardless of marital
status will always be a sin
by the way for generations christians
were taught
love the sinner hate the sin my least
favorite
saying because it has the word hate in
it being gay was a sin
in itself for years but now presumably
with the grave failure of ex-gay therapy
and the mass exodus of millennials from
church christians are cleaning up the
phrasing a bit
i wouldn't dare say homosexuality is a
sin
god might have made you gay it's the act
of homosexuality that's a sin
does that make it better no it doesn't
pretty phrasing doesn't solve the
torment that homosexual people
experience
we as christians condemn the lgbtq
population
to either a lifetime of celibacy
or into a heterosexual marriage matthew
vines is a
gay christian author who argues that
paul refers to celibacy as a gift
not a demand whether christians agree
with homosexual acts or not
sexual autonomy is a human right please
consider too
christians are getting a bit smug with
this new being gay isn't a sin the act
of sex is
i say it smug because y'all say it like
it's so dang easy
it's not heterosexual people will you
please
take one humble second and imagine
someone telling you
you have to be celibate for the rest of
your life
no physical expression of love no
intimacy
no marriage no family no children
no one to grow old with you will be
alone and you have
no choice in this matthew vines asks us
to consider the fruit
if you plant a tree of enforced celibacy
and the fruit ripens into people turning
away from god
committing suicide or being
double-minded like legislating against
gay rights while having gay affairs
the fruit is looking pretty inedible the
most prominent
ex-gay therapist joseph nicolosi suppose
that no one is born gay
and that the propensity is caused by
childhood trauma
that can happen but saying it's always
the case has been debunked
in 2013 the major ex-gay organization
exodus international shut its doors due
to a 99 99.9
failure rate among its clients we've
tried to change gays and we just can't
change them there's a great book that
every christian should read
by david p gucci gushy i don't know
david is a conservative christian who
actually believes we should save
ourselves from marriage
he also studied the bible and concluded
that gay people
should be allowed the right to marry in
genesis 2
god saw it was not good for man to be
alone so he created a companion knowing
it's not good for man to be alone
would a loving god condemn an entire
population to celibacy
gay people would god rob you of
intimacy and love and that's a question
you have the holy spirit within you
you need to ask god these questions to
get clarity and real answers on your sex
life
for yourself the adam and eve argument
also supposes we're called to procreate
if you believe the inability to
procreate as a sin
what about couples who are productively
challenged jesus said we could divorce
for infidelity
but not for infertility also adam and
eve were given the imperative to
procreate
but if you take genesis literally they
were the only
people on earth by contrast we're now
dealing with an
increase in population from 1.5 to 6.1
billion
people in just 100 years so is it safe
to say this imperative
no longer exists statistics show that 80
percent
of all y'all unmarried christians are
actually having
pre-marital sex if god's ideal is truly
a monogamous partnership who are we
to vote away a gay person's right to be
in covenantal relationship
we're actually condemning gay people to
have the same kind of sex christians are
having
unmarried premarital sex premarital sex
gay marriage which sin is worse
whose plank is bigger and who is i with
this girl defined says
marriage has been redefined because as
culture changes as time changes
the definition changes too but thank god
marriage doesn't look like it's it in
the bible because i'm sorry kristen and
bethany there were no
white wedding cakes or romantic gestures
let alone the right to choose your
partner those were misogynistic times
we were literally property of our
husbands and more often than not
in polygamist marriages with king david
with king solomon
and many other figures in the bible it
was not
adam and eve it was adam and eve and
even even even eve so can we all agree
we're happy marriage changes its
definition please watch my video on this
to understand what marriage
actually was in the bible number three
being gay is unnatural
really here's a partial list of animals
that engage in homosexual behavior
i'll link more studies below still
christians can get
so arrogant in our theology that we
actually commit
grave sins to protect what we believe
number four
the bible is our weapon bang bang when
taken too literally
the bible can justify evil that's why
our moral compass
always needs to be engaged when we're
considering human rights
biblical teachings are not infallible
just because they're traditional the
following brutal examples were not
only culturally accepted but also
biblically
backed up slave ownership in an 1861
sermon pastor joseph r wilson
quotes ephesians 6 5 servants be
obedient to them that are your masters
he goes on to explain our attention is
forcibly arrested by
the very first word of this text
servants
there is no difficulty in ascertaining
its true meaning it distinctly and
unequivocally signifies slaves this is
how the majority of christians justified
slavery
the banning of interracial marriage it
wasn't until 1967
in the case of loving vs virginia that
the supreme court ruled in favor of
interracial marriage this was a civil
rights landmark and it was formerly
illegal
because of the bible horribly enough you
can still find christians debating this
issue
ranging from blatantly racist sites to
more well-meaning ones
this is from 2016 you guys
and the south african apartheid was
dignified by the bible
until the 1990s condoning rape the first
case of marital rape didn't make it to
court
until 1979 the evangelical church
still professes a wife must be sexually
available
noting titus 2 3 ephesians 5 22 and
colossians 3
18. this leads couples to believe that
marital rape is impossible and wives
continue being raped
because this abusive thought pattern is
still prevalent in our society
nazism protestant theologian otto de
bilius convinced german christians to
support hitler
with romans 13. this is the same verse
jeff sessions used to justify family
separation at the border
and whether or not you think that was
legally sound it did
harm children jesus's least favorite
thing
the rape and murder of homosexual people
this african lesbian was correctively
raped
a common practice of christians to cure
her of being gay
she was impregnated forced to have an
abortion and contracted aids
these atrocities were committed by
extremists
but they all use the bible to back their
actions
in our 2000 years of christianity we
have gotten a handful of things wrong
let's just consider that our opinion on
the lgbtq issue
may be one of these things but we're
told number five
don't trust your gut trust me why are we
taught to trust our intuition
when it comes to walking down dark
alleys or talking to strangers
but not when it comes to our very
spirituality modern pastors use jeremiah
17
9 the heart is deceitful above all
things to make us
doubt our intuition when we're told to
fear our own hearts
we can be vulnerable to spiritual abuse
and manipulation
what do you do if your pastor's biblical
interpretation
conflicts with your moral intuition do
you just
accept that slavery is okay that
interracial marriage is a sin
that being gay is a sin at what point
do you actually trust the holy spirit
within you i talk to
so many christians that cannot
understand why being gay is a sin
it causes them pain it conflicts with
their moral intuition
and yet here we are just accepting it is
it possible that our moral intuition is
right is it possible
that is actually the holy spirit telling
us that we've gotten this one wrong
that said if you're like me your
doctrinal beliefs aren't going to change
overnight because they're important to
you
it's taken me 15 years to come to the
conclusions that i have
and i'm still evolving and growing all
the time
so lastly number six the bible condemns
lgbtq sexual acts
plain and simple let's dive into the
bible and see
how simple leviticus 18 22
you shall not lie with a male as with a
woman it is an abomination the hebrew
term
tova is used 117 times in the old
testament
other abominations include eating pork
oppressing the needy and the
mistreatment of orphans
but leviticus condemns 76 other things
including period sex eating fat touching
an unclean animal attending church
within 33 days of having a son
i mean is anyone going to preach on
these things or can we stop
citing leviticus sodom and gomorrah is
often used to condemn homosexuality but
when you read those stories on your own
they're clearly about moral decay and
sexual violence
two angels arrive at the home of lot he
is being an impeccable host
until this mob of people surround his
house and demand to rape the two
angels lot offers his two virgin
daughters instead
and says do with them whatever you want
and god is so
outraged by the whole situation that he
has the angels take lot and his family
away
and reigns down fire from heaven
destroying the city
unfortunately because the word sodomy is
derived from sodom people
wrongfully blame homosexuality for the
destruction of that city
to the contrary when isaiah 1 9 jeremiah
23
14 and ezekiel 16 49 speak of sodom and
gomorrah
they never mention homosexuality the
sins mentioned
are injustice adultery lying pride
gluttony and lack of care for the poor
as for the new testament
paul is the only one to mention
homosexuality i'd like to bring up that
paul was never with christ in the flesh
because christ appeared to him
after death in a vision also christ was
a manifestation of god
infallible while paul was a mere man
fallible and he openly admits to these
imperfections in romans 7
14 we know that the law is spiritual but
i am unspiritual
sold as a slave to sin i do not
understand what i do
i'm not saying paul wasn't a righteous
man or an excellent teacher
but i do leave room for fallibility when
it comes to humanity
according to scholars eight to thirteen
books in the new testament were written
by paul
and many of these were while he was in
prison he's corresponding with churches
and giving them advice
second peter 3 16 warns paul's letters
contain
some things that are hard to understand
which ignorant and unstable people
distort
as they do other scriptures to their own
destruction
i can't say all these words properly but
i'm going to try in those letters the
word homosexual was translated from the
greek word
arsonakonai which scholars say paul
himself coined this is a combination of
a few words including malikoy
which means soft and was used in matthew
11 8 to describe
soft clothing it could have also been
used to mock men for their willingness
to be penetrated
and essentially take on the female role
and if you remember the females were
lesser citizens
you can imagine this was an insult in
american churches
we really can't fathom how heated the
debate is
over translation it's not as easy as
sitting in your living room with your
devotional and being able to figure out
exactly what the original greek text
intended
for example many scholars argue that
paul was actually referring
to the practice of rich men eros having
same-sex relations with
young slave boys pais if that's true
paul could actually be condemning
pedophilia
not consensual homosexuality jesus even
healed
paes in matthew 8 5 a centurion
begged jesus to heal his servant as it
reads in our english bible
but in greek servant was pais which many
say
means young male lover others argue it
means male
slave but if that's true why did a
powerful man go
running to get his slave healed why was
he so important
civilizations fall because of moral
bankruptcy
not because your neighbor has two dads
or because a white girl wants to marry a
black guy
or because i want to be friends with a
jewish person
christians have ostracized people for
those exact things
anyone that's gay bi asexual i want you
to know that there's no reason to sever
your tie
from god it's the church that has a
disproportionate
obsession with your sexuality if you
profess that jesus died and rose again
regardless of your sexual orientation
the holy spirit resides within you
and you are a christian don't let anyone
no matter a church affiliation status
ability to hold a microphone bully you
into believing you're not who you know
you are
when you assess your sex life invite god
into that intimacy
don't let anyone else outside tell you
what to be ashamed of or what to believe
jesus says clearly he's given you the
holy spirit if you are a believer
so if you believe that you can get
answers on your own
trust that i trust you even if your
pastor doesn't
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