LGBT News Same sex relationships and Christianity

Oh where to start with the catholic church! This is the institute who used to have orgies and go on murdering rampages around 300 years ago, but considered it ok as long as they asked for forgiveness. They obviously changed their views on this some time ago, and now they may finally "START" to think about the topic of same sex relationships.

This report is a good start, but will it really make any difference? It needs to be delivered and agreed with those higher up in the church.

I have no doubts about my faith - I consider myself a christian, holding the values that everyone is equal and should be treated with respect - but I have a problem with the church itself. According to them, the rules are "love your neighbour as yourself - unless of course they're not straight and don't follow our way of life". - It's way to slow and behind and conservative in it's teachings and rules. Perhaps it's the same for other religions, but I don't know them so well.

 

I can attest that Baptists and Pentecostals are the same, at least the organizations are though maybe not all individuals who identify with either.

 

This is also true in the catholic church. I was lucky enough to grow up with open-minded priests who had their own personal views which differed to the church. It helped me to be able to separate the difference between church and religion

 

I grew up in an extremist version of the Southern Baptists and I have learned also that there is a difference. I am now an apatheist though.

 

I think the problem with the Southern Baptists in the United States is they're motivated to ensure their congregants hate the LGBT community specifically because they're in bed with the Republican party and keeping us as the bogey men keep people voting Republican to "protect the children" from us. It all goes back to the 1970's/ 1980's Jerry Fallwell "moral majority" garbage. There's books and stuff about it. If my faith were a pile of Jenga blocks, learning about this removed the bulk of them. It's not what finally brought it all crashing down for me, but it made it not very hard to do.

 

Thank you for posting this. Even specific denominations are caught up in tug of war battles over LGBT sexuality that are almost splintering them. Like one member said, it depends on the clergy that leads up the church you attend. It makes for a big difference.