Why are so many christians hateful to gay people
1. Avoid the phrase “the gays” and the word “homosexual.” If you’re a white male and don’t like to be called “white boy,” then you should not refer to gay people as “the gays.” And if you take offense at people calling African Americans “colored folk,” then you too should avoid calling queer people “the gays.” This phrase is backwoods, outdated, and grammatically incorrect (“gay” is an adjective, not a noun). It's a poor way of referring to people made in God’s image.
“Homosexual,” when used as a noun to describe a person, is less offensive but it’s still not the preferred term. Technically it may be accurate, as is “white boy,” but it comes with a lot of baggage. It’s finest to avoid this phrase as well, unless you’re referring to concepts or things like “homosexual marriage” or “homosexual relations.”
When referring to people, use the terms gay or lesbian, or the well-known acronym LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person, Transgender). As you may know, this acronym continues to grow (LGBTQITAP…), but I really don’t believe these longer versions are catching on in every day speech. LGBTQ (Q=Queer or Questioning) has gained some traction, but I still see LGBT control the rhetorica
Christianity and “Biblical” Hatefulness
We Christians are good at a lot of things. Helping others. Dressing up on Sunday. Quoting scripture. Pot luck meals. Taking care of church members. Weddings. Funerals. Worship. But perhaps the thing at which we are the most persistently exceptional is misinterpreting the Bible then running amuck in the world because of it. Honestly, mad skills. And history backs me up on this one.
We have used the Bible to support, promote and act upon some pretty un-Christian things: slavery, holocaust, segregation, subjugation of women, apartheid, the Spanish Inquisition (which, no one ever expects), domestic abuse, all sorts of abuse and the list could go on and on. Oddly, if you inquire theologians to pick one biblical theme to regulation them all, most of them would say “love”… well, love and grace. Okay, love, grace and forgiveness. Fine. They probably would not specifically accept on a single designation, but they would most likely name something that is, in every way, the opposite of the oppression, belittlement, hatred and marginalization represented by the numerous atrocities committed by the Christian Church.
More times than not, t
The Great Divide: Same-Sex Marriage And The Evangelical Christian
The Great Divide, as geologists call it, is a rocky ridge that runs from the mountains in Alaska all the way through South America. The water on the west side of the Partition runs into the Pacific Ocean; the water on the east side finds its way toward the Atlantic. Water that at one time was flowing in the same river is now separated, and never again the twain shall meet.
The decision of the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states has confronted us with our control great divide: on the one side are those who hold to a biblical definition of marriage, and on the other are those who are “same-sex affirming,” insistent on providing a loving and welcoming stance toward these now-honored unions.
As one conservative rule professor said, after the backlash regarding the Pride 2015 RFRA ruling in Indiana,
Cultural pressure is going to radically reduce orthodox Christian numbers in the years to come. The definition of what it means to be a loyal Christian is going to come under intense flame, not only from outside the churches, but from within. There will be serious stigma attached to standing up for or
Queer Theology: Does God Hate Gay People?
A class questions issues from hetero privilege to gaydar to LGBTQ racism
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one evening, in search of those building blocks at BU.
Are stereotypes about gays—for example, that gay men talk, dress, or gesture differently than straight guys—bigoted blather? Or is there such a thing as reliable gaydar that helps people, including gays, to perceive others’ sexual orientation?
You might not expect openmindedness about stereotyping to show up up in a seminar called Gender non-conforming Theology, which studies questions about God and religion posed by gay, trans person, bisexual, and gender-questioning people, many of whom, according to teacher Pamela Lightsey, ask, “Does God hate me?” because of widespread prejudice.
Lightsey herself, she says, is the only openly lesbian African American cleric in the United Methodist Church, and a fervent critic of stereotyping. But the School of Theology associate dean and clinical assistant professor of contextual theology is devoted to coming at an issue from all sides. Recently
You can always narrate when people of faith want to blame God for their homophobia and transphobia, because they suddenly become super-interested in literally applying the Bible to other people’s lives. When you confront them on their unbridled hatred and the viciousness with which they crusade — they claim that as “Bible-believers,” they have no choice in the matter.
“Well,” they state with shrugged shoulders and feigned helplessness, “in God’s Pos, it does speak, ‘a man shall not lie with another man, it is an abomination.’”
(This is from Leviticus, Chapter 20, verse 13, by the way. It’s a go-to.)
For a moment, let’s put aside the fact that this verse (nor any others) doesn’t adequately comprise or address gender culture, sexual orientation, sexual activity, lesbians, Genderqueer human beings — or monogamous, devoted, loving same-sex relationships between two adults.
Right now, let’s just focus on these Christians, alleging that they’re just doing what God says in the Bible. Like beleaguered auto salesmen on the showroom floor, blaming some hidden concealed manager in the back who’s keeping them from giving a customer a better deal, while they deflect culpabi