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	Homosexuality and Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1395 there was a transvestite homosexual prostitute arrested in London with some records surviving [18], and the Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards included the denunciation of priestly celibacy as a cause of sodomy [19].
		Liberal Christians consider the Bible a document of the human authors' beliefs and feelings about God at the time of its writing, which may reflect a heightened spiritual consciousness, or which may simply be primitive and wrong; liberal Christians often dismiss Biblical teachings, especially accounts of miracles such as the Virgin Birth.
		At the Councils of Orange, Western Christianity officially adopted a form of compatibilist determinism known as original sin, according to which the sin of Adam and Eve has corrupted the whole human race such that humans are unable to refrain from sin, yet remain accountable, and cannot even desire holiness apart from Divine intervention [33].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homosexuality_and_Christianity (2436 words)

	Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Western Christianity in the Middle Ages was characterized by cooperation and conflict between the secular rulers and the Church under the Pope, and by the development of scholastic theology and philosophy.
		As the European Enlightenment took hold, Christianity was confronted with the discoveries of science (including the heliocentric model and the theory of evolution), and with the development of biblical criticism (linked to the development of Christian Fundamentalism) and modern political ideologies such as Liberalism, Nationalism and Socialism.
		Christian mobs, sometimes with the government support, have destroyed pagan temples and oppressed adherents of paganism (such as the philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who was murdered by a Christian mob).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christianity (5357 words)

	Discover Christianity - homosexuality and christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	www.st-georgechurch.org /homosexuality_and_christianity-1.html (444 words)

	Homosexuality & Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the Christian, sin must be understood as a disease which results FROM a broken relationship with God and which results IN a broken relationship with one another and with ourselves.
		Christianity is not a religion with new rules and laws, but is rather a new relationship with God.
		They have been told that they can't be gay and be Christians; and since all efforts have failed in their struggle not to be gay or lesbian, then their only recourse, according to the Church, is that they can't be Christian.
	www.mccla.org /Resources/Homosexuality/homosexuality.htm (2287 words)

	Homosexuality, Christianity and Humanism
		Due to the influence of such biblical teachings during the Dark Ages, homosexuals in Christian Europe were subjected to the death penalty and other persecution for centuries.
		Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, describes homosexuality as "antisocial" and dubs it a "sickness," "pathology," and "abomination." He has accused homosexuals of wanting "to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.
		Since there are good and bad persons in both the homosexual and heterosexual populations, judging people by their sexual orientation is ridiculous and unfair.
	www.humanismbyjoe.com /homosex_christian_humanism.htm (1147 words)

	3. Christianity and homosexuality: are they compatible? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Homosexuality and the Bible: A Case Study in the Use of the Bible for Ethics, by Dr. Loren L. Johns, Associate Professor of Religion, Bluffton College.
		Christianity and homosexuality, a competent discussion of the relevant issues by Jeramy Townsley.
		Homosexuality and the "Unnaturalness Argument", a well-reasoned essay by Burton M. Leiser, which shows that the common argument that homosexuality is "unnatural" and therefore wrong is not acceptable.
	hem.passagen.se /nicb/christ.htm (671 words)

	Homosexuality and Christianity - ReligionFacts
		Recently, Christian disagreements about homosexuality have been at the forefront with regard to the controversial ordination of Gene Robinson, an openly gay man, as an Anglican bishop (left).
		We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine.
		The Seventh-day Adventist Church is opposed to homosexual practices and relationships on the grounds that "sexual intimacy belongs only within the marital relationship of a man and a woman." It believes the Bible consistently affirms the pattern of heteromonogamy, and all sexual relations outside the scope of spousal intimacy are contrary to God's original plan.
	www.religionfacts.com /homosexuality/christianity.htm (2610 words)

	The Christian Bible and the Homosexual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The homosexual act of anal intercourse was an affront to this dignity, undermining the Hebrews' patriarchal society.
		Homosexual acts outside the temple were seen only as violations of the sacredness of the guest: acts of violence and inhospitality to others.
		Paul's letters consider homosexual acts to be the result of idolatry, reasoning that only when abandoning the true god for idol worship could a person abandon what Paul considered sexual "nature." His main concern was idolatry, not the sexual acts.
	www.postfun.com /pfp/homosexual.html (3685 words)

	The Paris Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I have believed that homosexuality is an especially dastardly sin and that gays are dirty and shouldn’t be touched.
		Homosexuality is really important to me right now because I informally counsel students on their sexual struggles, and I am afraid of contributing to their pain – it’s a huge responsibility to nurture a young adult life.
		Christians always think they're the first ones to talk with me about it, and it becomes like their special mission of helping me, and the helping feels bad, like I'm lesser, and it happens again and again and again.
	jenellparis.blogspot.com /2004/09/is-it-true-did-love-win-out.html (3795 words)

	Homosexuality & Christianity - The Christian Arsenal
		If homosexuality were normative and God ordained, God would have openly spoke of it and it would not have been as radical of an announcement as they would like to think.
		The actual percentage of those thought to be exclusively homosexual for their entire lives was only four percent of men and two or three percent of women, all based on his allegedly representative sample of the population.
		By calling the homosexual life style a sin is no more excluding them from the church than calling robbery or murder a sin and claiming that robbers and murders can not come to the church.
	www.christianarsenal.com /Apologetics/HomoChristian.htm (7751 words)

	Operation Save America - Homosexuality vs. Christianity, Contintued...
		Homosexuality is NOT like race--people have no choice about their race, and race does not involve behavior.
		Christians should not be proud of being some of the most narrow minded, dogmatic people in the world.
		I don't think homosexuals nor anyone else not right with God should be in leadership in the church, but the church is meant to be filled with "sinners." We're all sinners.
	www.operationsaveamerica.org /articles/articles/continued.html (1990 words)

	Paradigm Shift - Christianity and Homosexuality
		The Christian world, of course, has never been devoid of homosexuality, and Christianity's early representatives were compelled to address it, as in the Epistle of Barnabas.
		The orthodox Christian position towards homosexuality has been that it is a seductive temptation to be resisted at all costs, an interesting attitude, because homosexuality would in truth only be tempting to those who are initially inclined thus.
		One of the most notorious of the "closeted" Christian homosexuals was in fact King James I, the patron of the King James Bible, which is so highly esteemed by evangelical Christians [of which Jerry Falwell is one].
	users.bestweb.net /~kali93/jan2000/xhomo.htm (871 words)

	Christianity and Homosexuality
		And one of the things Christians celebrate is that people who in Leviticus were forbidden from inclusion in the camp—lepers, eunuchs, the lame, etc.—are now fully included in the church.
		Their argument is thus that Paul is only condemning homosexual sex associated with a pagan temple here and not something like a monogamous homosexual relationship.
		Modern “homosexuals” and ancient “homosexuals” are groups that overlap but that are not exactly the same.
	www.indwes.edu /colloquium/collhomosexualitybib.html (6479 words)

	HOMOSEXUALITY AND BISEXUALITY
		It is caused by a genetic predisposition towards homosexuality which it triggered in young children by some unknown element in the environment.
		Very conservative Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs etc. supported by members of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH): Most of this group prefer to continue the current restrictions against gays, lesbians, bisexuals -- including prohibition of same-sex marriage.
		However, we have included many essays about homosexual rights in Canada, because about 5% of our website's visitors are from that country, and because events in Canada may indicate the direction that U.S. society will take in the future.
	www.religioustolerance.org /homosexu.htm (889 words)

	Christianity & Homosexuality
		There has been so much out-and-out loathing dumped on homosexuals by the many practitioners of Christianity for the past 1,800 years that we wonder why gays remain in the fold at all.
		The problem, as we see it, is that most of the militant practicioners of Christianity seem to loathe Christ and everything he stood for: tolerance, loving-kindness, forgiveness, and an avoidance of pitfalls of Calvinism --- that is, acknowledging that wealth is most probably incompatible with divinity (unless you choose to give it all away).
		Christian system in high reverence, forgiving the vicious hostility of most of his religious coreligionists towards his admitted homosexuality.
	www.ralphmag.org /godswisdom.html (744 words)

	Homosexuality and Christianity
		Those Christians who support homosexuality are unable to get around the fact that the Bible clearly says that homosexuality is a sin.
		Progressive revelation has "revealed" that homosexuality is now acceptable to God.
		The committed relationships of homosexuality in today's world means that homosexuality now is not the same as it was in Old Testament times.
	www.evangelical.us /homosexuality.html (220 words)

	Homosexuality and Christianity
		Whether or not the intent of the men of Sodom was sexual, the inhospitality and injustice coming from the mob, and that generally characterized the community, were “the sin of Sodom.” (Ezekial 16:49-50, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:18; 50:40) Jesus himself refers to the inhospitality of Sodom.
		For the Christian, sin must be understood as a disease that results FROM a broken relationship with God and that results IN a broken relationship with one another and with ourselves.
		In the book The Third Sex there are six reported cases of homosexuals whom God has “cured.” Of these six, at least four are known to have returned to their gay lifestyle.
	www.cathedralofhope.com /homosexuality (2346 words)

	Mario's story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The conflicting pull between homosexual attractions and Christianity was agonizing.
		When I accepted myself exclusively as a Christian, not gay and not gay-Christian, the tug of war ended In the following years I discovered a number of authoritative works on homosexuality ignored by both the politically correct gay movement and the Church.
		The spiritual poverty of the Episcopal Church (especially here in Chicago) is such that a self-identified homosexual entering one of our churches is likely to find an affirmation of their same-sex attractions by one of our many openly gay priests.
	www.newdirection.ca /stories/s_mario_b.htm (950 words)

	Homosexuality and Christianity
		Musings On.com--a conservative Christian who is non-affirming but accepting writes of her journey in the gay community as well as a strong essay in favor of civil same-sex marriage
		Hippolytus, a Christian martyr and church leader in the early part of the 3rd century, ties the Cybelean rituals with the Romans passage.
		Homosexual Christians are no less apt to engage in behaviors which clearly exhibit the characteristics of these two commands, or of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23) than are heterosexual Christians.
	www.jeramyt.org /gay.html (18789 words)

	Not That - homosexuality and Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their resolution encouraging parents to investigate schools to see whether schools or school groups (run by kids even) are promoting acceptance of homosexuality is ridicul...
		Yes, there are millions of WASP unbelievers, but chances are they've been given a chance to hear God's word at some point in their lives, while there are still many, many people in the third world who will not have that chance.
		Semantics aside, we agree that the "sin" of homosexuality lies in the doing of the deed, not just in the attraction to someone of the same sex.
	www.not-that.com /archives/002100.php (1903 words)

	Christianity and Homosexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As with any other subject, the issue of homosexuality should be approached from general principles and a well-developed moral theology.
		Christian morality is a morality of love, nothing else.
		Even the negative rules of our faith (many of the ten commandments are expressed that way) are merely explicit statements about actions and attitudes which violate the command to love.
	www.rmbowman.com /catholic/homosex1.htm (341 words)

	P.O.V. - Family Fundamentals . Resources . Christianity and Homosexuality \| PBS
		Find out more about varying religious groups' policies on homosexuality in essays reflecting a diversity of viewpoints, from religious conservatives to liberals.
		Articles and research on the intersection of homosexuality and religion with links to groups that work to affirm gay religious rights and those which oppose this.
		Soulforce is an interfaith group that challenges religious policies and teachings that disapprove of homosexuality.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/familyfundamentals/resources.html (291 words)

	Books on Homosexuality and Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Popular Christian author Phillip Yancey reminds us what an amazing thing God's grace really is, and discusses the ways we've fallen short of showing that grace to others.
		In a touching autobiographical account, this former Christian filmmaker and ghostwriter for fundamentalist Christians Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson describes his many attempts to become straight, followed by the difficult process of coming out to himself, his peers...
		Two Christian women - one gay and one straight - encourage the church to rethink its position on homosexuality and to show unconditional love to gay people.
	www.gaychristian.net /books.php (764 words)

	JPN: Christianity: Bible: Homosexuality
		My argument: Debates in the church about homosexuality are seldom constructive and often repetitive; thus, a new approach is necessary.
		Assessing how the Bible defines sin shows us that we should look for behavior that show a love of God and neighbor and understand that limits on our passions are needed to stop abuse of the neighbor.
		With this definition, and examining the lives of homosexuals, we can see that homosexuality, in and of itself, does not meet the Bible's definition of sin.
	www.jpnordin.com /christianity/bible/hs/hs.htm (406 words)

	Christianity and Homosexuality Home Page
		Here is Christian help for people who are dealing with homosexuality, their families, and their friends.
		ational Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is a group of behavioral scientists and others, mostly therapy professionals, which seeks to support homosexual men and women who desire change.
		A website for conservative Christians who want to show love in the form of justice and respect for gays because that's right.
	home.messiah.edu /~chase/h (470 words)

	Links on Homosexuality and Christianity - ReligionFacts
		Homosexuality is a complex issue, and so is responding to it in light of the Bible and traditional Christian faith.
		Views and policies regarding homosexuality differ across denominations, churches, and individual Christians.
		Some condemn homosexuality as a grave sin, some don't take a specific position one way or the other, and a few churches ordain practicing homosexuals to the ministry.
	www.religionfacts.com /christianity/links/homosexuality.htm (180 words)

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