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What the Bible Says – And Doesn’t Say – About Homosexuality
by Rev. Mel White, co-founder of SoulforceA Biblical response to the question people often ask… “How can you consider yourself a Christian when you are also gay?”
In this 24-page booklet, Mel White puts forward these eight premises:
- Most people have not carefully and prayerfully researched the Biblical texts used by some people to condemn God’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children.
- Historically, people’s misinterpretation of the Bible has left a trail of suffering, bloodshed, and death.
- We should be open to new truth from Scripture. Even heroes of the Christian faith have changed their minds about the meaning of various Biblical texts.
- The Bible is a book about God. The Bible is not a book about human sexuality.
- We miss what these passages say about God when we spend so much time debating what they say about sex.
- The Biblical authors are silent about homosexual orientation as we know it today. They neither approve it nor condemn it.
- The prophets, Jesus, and the Biblical authors say nothing about homosexual orientation as we understand it today. But, they are clear about this one thing. As we search for truth, we are to “Love one another.”
- Whatever some people believe the Bible seems to say about homosexuality, they must not use that belief to deny homosexuals their basic civil rights. To discriminate against sexual or gender minorities is unjust and un-American.
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You can download a PDF file of What the Bible Says, and Doesn’t Say, about Homosexuality.
Sharon Rose (mother), Darryl Matthis (family friend) & Xamayla Rose (sister) in our library raising awareness about the insidiousness of gang influence on urban youth.
Mrs. Rose receiving flowers made by our students.
© Frank H. Jump
Creative Writing teacher Gen Berretta invited the Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign to our school, P.S. 119 The Amersfort School of Social Awareness on Avenue K in Brooklyn. If you don’t remember, Christopher Rose was the young boy who was killed for his iPod in 2005 on Farragut Road in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Since, his mother Sharon Rose and family have created an organization in Christopher’s memory to foster community activism and raise awareness against gang influence on our youth.
The Christopher Rose Community Empowerment Campaign will aim to mobilize community stakeholders and others for support and involvement in activities to increase community awareness of the following:
• The factors that contribute to youth violence
• Occurrences of violence
• The impact of violence
• Strategies for preventing delinquency of adolescents that leads to youth gang involvement and community violence
What color should I die for?
Blue?
Red?
or
Gold?
How old do I grow before my love of the color grows cold?
Help me choose a symbol my friend can die for.
The star?
A Hat?
Or
a hand sign?
It all makes sense?
Who wouldn’t die for a color or symbol?
I would……wouldn’t I?
You can…won’t you?
My baby brother should….. shouldn’t he?
Are these symbols that hold us together, the meaning of life?
Is a color as important as Freedom or a symbol and hand sign as virtuous as Love.
Stop!
What madness have we created.
We fight and die for issues of no meaning.
Gang Life has no future.
No Profit.
No virtue.
No worthy goals.
I choose a life with a future.
I reject mindless commitments to meaningless issues
and conflicts that gang life offers me.
Why should I serve or follow these men who create conflict and hate to the point that it spirals out of control.
Yesterday you were my friend and today you are my enemy because they say you are.
Rubbish!
I will choose my friends, my future, my destiny.
Yes I would die for Freedom.
No I won’t die for your special color,
symbol, hand sign, or street corner.
What kind of brotherhood would ask me to do such a thing?
I reject Gang Life and choose…
Life!
DTL – Gang Intervention.org
Komodo embryo
“A female Komodo dragon without a male Komodo dragon is like a fish without a bicycle.” – Anonymous Lesbian-separatist herpetologist.
Parthenogenesis, the production of offspring without fertilization by a male, is carried out by King Edward potatoes, bees and greenfly but is rare in vertebrate species. – Telegraph.uk.co
Virgin births excite scientists
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Komodo Dragon facts Last Updated: 2:03am GMT 21/12/2006
Nearly all vertebrates breed by sexual reproduction, either laying eggs or giving birth to live young. The few exceptions to this rule include animals such as North American whiptail lizards, which can breed without mating in a process known as parthenogenesis. In several species of these lizards, males have never been found. – MSN Encarta.com
More on Veganism from Vegan Outreach:
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that we are required to eat animals. Just because the Bible doesn’t explicitly forbid something doesn’t make it right. For example:
When your brother is reduced to poverty and sells himself to you, you shall not use him to work for you as a slave…. Such slaves as you have, male or female, shall come from the nations round about you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy the children of those who have settled and lodge with you and such of their family as are born in the land. These may become your property, and you may leave them to your sons after you; you may use them as slaves permanently.
Leviticus 25: 39-46
Leviticus, such a contentious, narrowly & overly interpreted text.
The Blog to End All BLOGS AIDS Stigmas
In response to Huckabee’s refusal to recant statements stigmatizing those living with HIV/AIDS, the National Association of People with AIDS issued a statement today, December 10, urging all presidential candidates to oppose AIDS stigma and discrimination. – POZ Magazine
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