Does god not want me to be gay

In a speech at a gay-advocacy fundraiser Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg defended his homosexuality in a remark aimed at vice president Mike Pence, a proponent of traditional marriage. Insisting that his homosexual behavior and legal marriage to another man do not contradict his beliefs as an Episcopalian Christian, Buttigieg said:.

LGBT Issues and the Church: Problems With a ‘Gay Christian’ Identity

So we do not define people by sexual attractions or sexual behaviors. Image from Shutterstock. Is being gay a sin? We are all sinners, but we can be forgiven and born again through faith in Christ. And everybody stands condemned, whether they are male or female, black or white, old or young.

‘God Made Me Gay’

God intended marital relations that have the potential for fruitfulness and population of the earth Gen. Old Testament teaching affirms the virtue and joy of physical intimacy in marriage Prov. Elsewhere Paul condemns the forbidding of heterosexual marriage 1 Tim. Paul is not sour on sex.

Does God Single Out the Sin of Homosexuality? (Romans 1)

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