Its ok to be gay

God made you like that and he loves you like that and I do not care. By James Palmer April 17, , 8: Visit our adblocking instructions page. Sign up for free access to 3 articles per month and weekly email updates from expert policy analysts. Although inspired, the people who wrote the Bible were also limited by their time, their place, and their language.

In the past two hundred years, western civilization has come to understand that there is a diversity to sexuality and sexual orientation that was not recognized in previous eras. So why was the crackdown threatened in the first place? Today, the church continues to discuss how to understand and apply Bible verses around divorce, the role of women in the church, military force, and many other topics. However, sexuality and sexual orientation was understood in a very different way in the times when the books of the Bible were written. Astronomers began to suggest, based on their observations, that the sun was actually the center of the solar system, and the earth moved around it. Following in his footsteps, the early church welcomes Gentile believers Acts 8:

Trump Considers Diplomatic Novice for U. More from Foreign Policy. He was responding to questions about claims of an alleged "gay lobby" of clerics working in the heart of the Vatican. Thank you for your support. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. There are references in the Bible to same-gender sexual acts.