LGBTQ Christians

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Shocking Episcopalian take: LGBT Christians should be accepted, affirmed, and allowed to take leadership roles in the church.

The liberal mainline churches need to reach out to these people. As this thread shows, spirituality is still important for queer people. But converting people who were abused by the church is a hard sell, and understandably their experiences with Christian religion inevitably morphs their views on Chistianity as a whole.

The best way to evangelize, any people, is to brng people to Jesus and not religion. Counsel to those who were abused by the church and offer an alternative to be accepted as they are and follow their spiritual path towards Christ.

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Question for LGBT-friendly Christians: how do you square those positions with the various verses on the Bible that condemn homosexuality?

I can certainly buy "separation of church and state" arguments on those verses to say, make civil unions (or possibly gay marriage) legal and what not; as well as possibly other policy implications in politics. But that still does not touch the religious side of things.

How would you square the various verses that condemn homosexuality (pretty sure there are lots of them; though I can't name them since I am not a practicing Christian myself ) with being an actively practicing Christian?

Simply put: the "clobber passages" do not apply to modern, consensual same-sex relationships between two people who are of age. Some of the early churches displayed bizarre, often sexual, rituals that included idolatry and dressing up like birds and reptiles (Romans 1:23).

Being a Christian really doesn't require more than believing that Jesus was God and His death cleans us of our sins. Of course there is more to that, but Christians are a diverse group. Theologians have disagreed with each other since the beginning.