For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of YAH;
Having a form of regard for YAH, but denying the power of YAHUAH: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.
TIMOTHEUS SHENIY (2 TIMOTHY) 3:2-7
For the wrath of YAH is revealed from heaven against all wickedness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the Truth in unrighteousness;
Because that which may be known of YAH is manifest in them; for YAHUAH has showed it unto them.
For from the creation of the world, the invisible things of YAH are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and divinity; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew YAHUAH, they glorified him not as YAHUAH, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
And changed the glory of the incorruptible YAH into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore YAHUAH also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the Truth of YAH into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amein.
For this cause YAH gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain YAH in their knowledge, YAHUAH gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do את eth those things which are not convenient;
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Backbiters, haters of YAH, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of YAH, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
The Queen James Bible, also known as the Gay Bible, is a new assault on biblical orthodoxy and sexual purity. This is to be expected in a world of moral relativism. In it, the 1769 King James Bible has been reproduced with only a very few select verses altered–the ones that relate to homosexuality. Those verses are listed below and analyzed. I hope you will see that the Queen James Bible is a perversion of the original text and is the result of obvious prejudices against the original Hebrew and Greek texts in order to make homosexual practices appear acceptable.
Many Christian denominations do not consider homosexuality or transgender identity to be sins.
These include entire religious denominations, as well as individual churches and congregations.
Some are composed mainly of non-LGBT members and also have specific programs to welcome LGBT people, while others are composed mainly of LGBT members.
Additionally, some denominations which are not LGBT-affirming have member-organized groups which are not officially sanctioned by the denomination. There are also ecumenical or para-church programs that are explicitly outreaches to LGBT people, but do not identify with any particular faith tradition or denomination.
History
Today some Christian denominations are accepting homosexuality and transgender identity and inclusive of homosexual and transgender people, such as the United Church of Christ and the Metropolitan Community Church. Formed in 1991, The Evangelical Network is a network of evangelical churches, ministries and Christian Workers that are a part of the LGBT community. The Evangelical Network holds an annual conference and provides education, ministerial support, and networking capabilities.
In 1946, Archbishop George Hyde of the Eucharistic Catholic Communion (a small denomination not in union with the Roman Catholic Church) celebrated mass for gay men in Atlanta. In 1956, the Church of ONE Brotherhood was founded in Los Angeles by a gay-rights activist. In 1962, a Congregationalist pastor began an overt pastoral ministry to gay people in New York City. The first gay and transgender-specific denomination, as opposed to individual congregations, was the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches in 1968.
Some congregations are merely non-discriminatory and LGBT-affirming while others are specifically oriented toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons.
Some local congregations, especially those designated as “Welcoming churches” in the Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Methodist, Episcopal, and Brethren/Mennonite denominations, may consist of a majority of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender members.
While Unitarian Universalism is no longer explicitly a Christian religion, it does have Judeo-Christian roots. Both the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Canadian Unitarian Council have officially affirmed LGBT people and have openly advocated for gay rights.
Denominations
Africa and Asia
Anglican Church of Korea NOTE: The Anglican church has some clergy and congregations that support LGBT rights.
Anglican Church of Southern Africa NOTE: The Anglican church defines marriage as between a man and a woman, but does allow for the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. Bishop Mervyn Castle of False Bay was openly gay and celibate. Also, for lay people, “Anglican bishops from across southern Africa have resolved that gay and lesbian partners who enter same-sex civil unions under South African law should be welcomed into congregations as full members of the church.” The Diocese of Saldanha Bay has proposed the blessing of same-sex unions with the bishop’s support.
Hyanglin Church in Korea
Church of South India NOTE: The CSI opened ordination to transgender persons, has ministries specifically for transgender rights and some clergy support gay rights. The CSI is among the Anglican churches that “are open to changing Church doctrine on marriage in order to allow for same-sex unions” according to the BBC.
Evangelical Church of India
Members Church of God International (Known as Ang Dating Daan as their Presiding Minister Bro. Eliseo Soriano is a Prominent Member of LGBT)
United Church of Christ in Japan
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (Southern Synod)
Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) NOTE: Each congregation may determine its own decision on gay marriage and gay ministers. However, in November 2016 the Extraordinary Synod formally defined marriage as “a commitment between one man and one woman” and gay sex as a sin. Congregations are allowed to deny employment to married gays, but also allowed to define their own position.
Methodist Church of Southern Africa NOTE: The church “accepts same-sex relationships (as long as such relationships are not…marriage)”.
Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa NOTE: Each minister may exercise his or her conscience and support same-sex unions
Open Table Metropolitan Community Chuch
North America
Grace Gospel Chapel, in Seattle.
Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Alliance of Baptists
Anglican Church of Canada
All Saints Anglican Missionary Society
The Anthem Network
Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists
AXIOS – Eastern and Orthodox Gay and Lesbian Christians
Catholic Apostolic Church in North America
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Communion of Synodal Catholic Churches
Community of Christ
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship NOTE: Each congregation determines its own position
Corpus Christi Communion (Independent Affirming Reformed Catholic, Anglican and Ecumenical Churches under the umbrella of one Holy Apostolic Church) http://www.corpuschristicommunion.org/
Ecclesia Gnostica
Ecumenical Catholic Church
Ecumenical Catholic Communion
Église Gnostique Catholique Apostolique
Episcopal Church (United States)
Eucharistic Catholic Church
Evangelical Anglican Church In America
Evangelical Catholic Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
The Evangelical Network
Friends General Conference
Friends of Jesus Fellowship in America
Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals
Inclusive Orthodox Church
Independent Catholic Christian Church
Independent Greek Orthodox Church of the United States
International Council of Community Churches
Mennonite Church Canada NOTE: Each congregation determines its own position
Mennonite Church USA NOTE: Each conference determines its own position
Metropolitan Community Church
Moravian Church in America Northern Province
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches NOTE: Each congregation is free to determine its own policy
Old Catholic Church
Old Catholic Church-Charismatic Rite
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Reconciling Pentecostals International
Reformed Anglican Catholic Church
Reformed Church in America NOTE: Gay pastors may serve congregations if they were ordained in another denomination; some member churches allow gay marriage.
Restoration Church of Jesus Christ (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) — a Latter Day Saint denomination
Swedenborgian Church of North America
The Progressive Episcopal Church
Unitarian Universalist Association NOTE: Although no longer exclusively Christian, the denomination originated as such and is ‘mainline’
United Catholic Church
United Church of Christ
United Church of Canada Each individual congregation decides for itself whether or not to be Affirming or to solemnize same sex marriages. There are a number of other church bodies (some Presbyteries and Conferences) that have been designated as Affirming.
United Methodist Church’s Baltimore-Washington, California-Nevada, California-Pacific, Desert Southwest, Detroit, Greater New Jersey, Illinois Great Rivers, Iowa, Minnesota, New England, New York, Northern Illinois, Oregon-Idaho, Pacific-Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest Texas, Upper New York, Virginia, West Michigan, and Wisconsin Annual Conferences are affirming of LGBT clergy and relationships through resolutions. The South Carolina Annual Conference passed a resolution supporting transgender rights. The UMC also provides spousal benefits for non-ordained employees in same-sex marriages.The Western Jurisdiction elected the denomination’s first openly and partnered lesbian bishop in 2016. The North Central Jurisdiction considered an openly gay nominee for bishop although not elected. Additionally, the Northeastern Jurisdiction passed a resolution supporting the option of allowing same-sex marriages. On May 7, 2018 the Council of Bishops in the United Methodist Church, have proposed allowing individual pastors and regional church bodies to decide whether to ordain LGBT clergy and perform same-sex weddings, though this proposal can only be approved by the General Conference.
Unity Fellowship Church Movement
Unity Church
Europe
Austria: Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria
Austrian, German, Swiss and Dutch Old Catholic Church
Austrian, Belgium, Netherlands and Poland Ecumenical Catholic Communion
Belgium: United Protestant Church in Belgium
Croatia: Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Croatia
Denmark: Church of Denmark
France: United Protestant Church of France
Finland: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland NOTE: The church permits prayers of celebration following a civil union or marriage
Germany: German Lutheran, reformed and united churches in Evangelical Church in Germany
Germany: The Social Ethics Ministry of the Central Conference of the United Methodist Church in Germany
Germany: Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany
Iceland: Church of Iceland
Ireland: Church of Ireland NOTE: Two former archbishops of Dublin, two diocesan bishops, and several congregations affirm LGBTI people in the Republic.
Ireland: Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland
Ireland: Unitarian Churches in Ireland
Netherlands: Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Nordic and Baltic Episcopal Area Conferences of the United Methodist Church
Norway: Church of Norway
Portugal – Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Romania – Unitarian Church of Transylvania NOTE: The deputy bishop endorsed same-sex unions
Spain: Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church and Spanish Evangelical Church
Sweden: Church of Sweden
Switzerland: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Geneva (Genf)
Switzerland: Swiss reformed churches in Swiss Reformed Church
Wales – Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Albania – Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Italy – Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy (CELI)
Italy – Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches
Italy – United Protestant Church (Chiesa Protestante Unita)
Old Catholic Church in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland
Poland – Christian United Church in Poland
United Kingdom (UK) – Church of England NOTE: The church defines marriage as between a man and a woman, but also supports same-sex civil partnerships.
“The church has no truck with homophobia and even supports clergy who are in civil partnerships.” The C of E allows prayers to follow a civil same-sex marriage, and allows civil partnerships for gay priests. In 2016, the Bishop of Grantham came out as the first openly gay bishop in a relationship. The C of E voted to affirm transgender people. The church approved services to celebrate and mark a person’s gender transition.
UK – Church in Wales NOTE: A majority supports same-sex marriage; the church said LGBT people can be “honest and open, respected and affirmed”. The church also permits gay priests to enter into civil partnerships. The church voted to explore approving same-sex marriages and blessings for civil partnerships.
UK – Church of Ireland congregations in Northern Ireland may be affirming NOTE: the denomination remains in conversation as a whole; in 2011, a senior cleric entered into a same-sex civil partnership and kept his post.
UK – Scottish Episcopal Church.
UK – Church of Scotland NOTE: The Church of Scotland voted to permit pastors to enter into same-sex marriages
UK – Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends) NOTE: Not all Quakers view themselves as Christian; they are however a historically Christian religious group.
UK – International Council of Community Churches
UK – Methodist Church of Great Britain NOTE: The church may bless civil same-sex marriages
UK – Unitarian and Free Christian Churches
UK – United Ecumenical Catholic Church,
UK – United Reformed Church
Latin America
Argentina – Evangelical Methodist Church in Argentina
Argentina – Evangelical Church of the River Plate
Brazil – Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Brazil – Christian Community of God (Authenticists)
Brazil – Catholic Diversity
Brazil – Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (since 1998)
Brazil – Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil
Brazil – United Presbiterian Church
Chile – Evangelical Lutheran Church of Chile
Chile – Lutheran Church in Chile
Colombia – Affirming Pentecostal Church International
Costa Rica – Costa Rican Lutheran Church
Costa Rica – Episcopal Church of Costa Rica
Cuba – Episcopal Church of Cuba
El Salvador – Episcopal Anglican Church of El Salvador
Peru – Lutheran Church of Peru
Uruguay – Evangelical Church of Uruguay
Australia
Affirming congregations within the Anglican Church of Australia NOTE: The Diocese of Perth, and other bodies, have voted to support same-sex relationships The Diocese of Gippsland appointed an openly and partnered gay priest. The Anglican Church of Australia does not have an official policy on homosexuality.
Uniting Church in Australia
United Ecumenical Catholic Church in Australia
Metropolitan Community Church
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
New Zealand
Anglican Church in New Zealand NOTE: As of 2018, clergy may bless a same-sex union.[96] In 2014, the Anglican church voted to start a process toward allowing the blessing of same-sex relationships. The Dunedin Diocese already offers a “Liturgy for the Blessing of a Relationship” irrespective of gender. The Anglican province has approved of allowing clergy “‘to recognise in public worship’ a same-gender civil union or state marriage of members of their faith community” with the bishop’s permission.
Metropolitan Community Church in New Zealand
Presbyterian Church in Aotearoa New Zealand NOTE: Individual congregations may be affirming, but the denomination is not affirming.
Religious Society of Friends(Quakers) in New Zealand
United Ecumenical Catholic Church in New Zealand
Uniting Congregations in New Zealand
Some Baptist Churches – Ponsonby Baptist, Cityside Baptist in Auckland
Auckland Rainbow Community Church
Congregations
AChurch4Me (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
New Day Worship Center (Toccoa, Georgia, USA)
Blessed Ministry Community Church (Hong Kong)
Broadway United Methodist Church (Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA)
Cathedral of Hope (Dallas, Texas, USA)
Citichurch of Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA)
City United Reformed Church (Cardiff, Wales)
Christ Chapel of the Valley (Los Angeles, California, USA) – a member of the evangelical Christ Chapel Association of Churches
Christ Church Cathedral (Anglican Church of Australia)
Christ Church Cathedral (Church of Ireland)
Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church in Madison (National Baptist Convention, USA Inc.)
Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) – Episcopal
Church of the Valley (Van Nuys, California, USA) – Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Danish Church of Buenos Aires, Argentina
EastLake Community Church (Bothell, Washington, USA)
Free Community Church (Singapore, Singapore)
Glendale City Seventh-day Adventist Church (Glendale, California, USA)
Glide Memorial Church (San Francisco, California, USA)
Kabahaghari United Methodists of the Philippines
Khandallah Presbyterian Church
Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (San Francisco, California, USA)
Grace Gospel Chapel (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Seattle First Baptist Church (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Hagia Sophia Gnostic Church (Seattle, Washington, USA) – Ecclesia Gnostica
Light of Love Fellowship (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Mayfair Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Misión San Francisco de Asís in the Anglican Church of Mexico
One Church (Chandler, Arizona, USA)
Oriented to Christ (Hong Kong)
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
Southwark Cathedral (Church of England)
Spirit of Joy Christian Church (Lakeville, Minnesota, USA) – Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
St. Andrew’s Church, Subiaco, Perth, Australia in the Anglican Diocese of Perth
St. Andrew’s Church on the Terrace in the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
St. David’s Presbyterian Church in Auckland
St. John’s and St. Andrew’s at Waterloo (Church of England)
St. John’s Cathedral (Anglican Church of Australia)
St. John’s in the City
St. Mark’s Anglican Church (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico) – a bilingual congregation
St. Barnabas, Bethnal Green – Diocese of London (Church of England)
St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Spalding (Church of England)
St. Mary’s Battersea (Church of England)
St. Pancras Church (Church of England)
St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Church of Ireland)
Tong-Kwang Light House Presbyterian Church (Taipei, Taiwan)
University Baptist Church (Austin, Texas, USA)
St. Paul’s Anglican Church (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Wake Forest Baptist Church (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA)
Walnut Creek United Methodist Church (Walnut Creek, California, USA)
Living Spirit United Methodist Church (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Greenland Hills United Methodist Church (Dallas, Texas, USA)
Ekklesia Tou Theou (Church of God) (Cavite, Philippines)
Olivet-Schwenkfelder United Church of Christ (East Norriton, Pennsylvania, USA)
Red Willow Community Church (Seventh-day Adventist) (St. Albert, Alberta, Canada)
Open Doors Community Church (Seoul, South Korea)
Trinity Episcopal Church (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Unity Fellowship of Christ Church (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Rev. Thomas Brown, who is married to a fellow priest, was ordained as a bishop of the diocese of Maine in the Episcopal Church June 22. Immediately following his ordination, Brown referred to God as a “she” twice in the Nicene Creed.
“She is worshipped and glorified. She has spoken through the Prophets,” the just-ordained Bishop Brown said, referring to the Holy Spirit.
The Nicene Creed was written 1,638 years ago and only uses masculine pronouns to refer to God.
The microphones in the Cathedral of St. Luke projected the voice of the celebrant, Bishop Curry, for the duration of the creed, barring the line where Bishop Brown used female pronouns for God. It is unclear if the microphones were intentionally switched to project Bishop Brown’s female-gendering of God.
Deacon Todd Thomas of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington told the Daily Caller that he has never heard an Episcopal priest use female pronouns in the creed. Individual bishops and priests can, however, change words and phrases in the Nicene Creed, Deacon Thomas explained. He cautioned any changes to the creed should be done “in conversation” with the lay people.
Deacon Thomas told the Daily Caller he has heard Episcopal priests use female pronouns for God outside of the context of official creeds.
The Episcopal church has a tradition of interpreting the Book of Proverbs’ mentions of “Lady Wisdom” as referring to the Holy Spirit, Deacon Thomas said.
“Inclusive language” of God is encouraged by the Episcopal Church. This “means the use of male and female imagery and metaphors in a balanced way to express the truths we know of God,” the Episcopal Dictionary of the Church says.
Bishop Brown describes himself as a “servant leader who strives for justice among all people and who continues to address white privilege, dismantle racism, and work for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the Body of Christ.”
The bishop met his husband, Father Tom Mousin, when Father Mousin was serving as a pastor in the United Methodist Church. Brown’s husband has since converted to the Episcopal Church, and been ordained in that church.
It is possible that Father Mousin will take up a position at a parish in his husband’s diocese, he said on Facebook, explaining he would have oversight from an outside bishop.
In 2018, the Episcopal Church began requiring all dioceses to perform same-sex marriage rites, even if a particular bishop objects, reports Juicy Ecumenism.
As a result, William Love, the Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York is in a state of partial inhibition because he has declined to allow priests to celebrate same-sex weddings.
Twenty years before this resolution, Episcopal bishops at the Lambeth Conference rejected “homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture.” They also voted that they “cannot advise the legitimizing or blessing of same-sex unions nor ordaining those involved in same gender unions.”
A wider battle is brewing in the denomination over the subject of gay marriage. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby faces opposition from the Global Anglican Future Conference for inviting bishops in same-sex relationships to the last Lambeth Conferene. At the same time, Episcopal church leaders have objected to Welby’s decision to not invite bishops’ same-sex spouses to the conference.
Bishop Brown’s ordination is the second time a gay man with a partner was elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church. Gene Robinson was elected a bishop in 2003, but has since divorced his partner, Mark Andrew. Mary Glasspool, a lesbian married to Becki Sander, was elected a bishop suffragan in 2009 and was present at Brown’s ordination.
From 1990 to 1994, Brown worked as the director of education for Planned Parenthood in South Central Michigan.
In 2018, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church called for “women’s reproductive health and reproductive health procedures to be treated as all other medical procedures.”
Bishop Brown told WMTV News 8 he aims to use his tenure as bishop of Maine to spread the Gospel message “in a way that respects the diversity of this state and the pluralism.”
For four days last April students at a Emmaus High School in Pennsylvania were forced to watch videos selected by the “student-led” Gay-Straight Alliance.
The videos ranged from “9 Questions Gay People Have About Straight People” to a compilation of clips celebrating “marriage equality.” There was also a video educating students about gender fluidity – the idea there is no such thing as male or female.
“My son expressed to me that he felt bullied by the administration for being a heterosexual man and being forced to listen to LGBT advocacy on a daily basis,” one parent wrote in a letter to the school district.
The East Penn School District claimed the videos, shown during daily announcements, were about anti-bullying and the LGBT movement. But parents argue it was more about indoctrination. And when they asked to see the videos – the school district refused.
Liberty Counsel, a law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious liberty issues, is calling on the district to immediately release what they called “four pro-homosexuality” videos shown as part of the district’s “Unity Week” and “Day of Silence” activities.
“It does not pass the straight face test for the District to claim it need not provide parents with the actual video links, although the District required more than 2,800 students to view these videos, with no prior notice to parents, and no opportunity to opt-out,” Mast wrote.
Parents took their concerns to the school district – but they were rebuffed.
“Since when does a public school in the United States of America have the right to block a parent and tell them they will not allow them to see the controversial partisan programming they are requiring their children to watch,” another parent asked in a letter to the district. “We have every right to expect that our children are not being subjected to partisan indoctrination in our public schools.”
Supt. Michael Schilder said the video presentations were compiled by the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance as part of a student project and are therefore off limits to parents.
“Student work and student expression must always be protected,” he told The Morning Call.“A parent or member of the public has no right to view or access a student’s term paper, speech, or multimedia project just because he or she objects to the topic.”
Parents said they were told they had absolutely no say in what their children were being exposed to at the school house.
I was told by the superintendent (that) parents have no right to view these videos,” one person said in documents provided by Liberty Counsel. “I would appreciate knowing why I was not afforded the opportunity to opt my son out of this targeted, planned, social engineering.”
LGBT activists have accused the moms and dads of being homophobic and anti-gay. However, parents say the core issue is about whether parents have the right to know what their children are being taught.
“For the record, neither Liberty Counsel nor parents who have contacted us object to the District promoting kindness amongst students or fighting actual bullying where it exists or promoting a ‘Unity Week’ that does not delve into matters of sexuality,” Mast wrote in his letter to the superintendent.
Liberty Counsel is threatening legal action unless the school district provides the videos to parents.
“The law is clear that parents, not agents of the state, including teachers, and certainly not GLSEN or its teacher or student affiliates with the GSA, have the right to direct the upbringing and associations of minor children,” Mast wrote.
It does make you wonder why the school district does not want parents to know what was shown to the children. Why the secrecy?
Liberty Counsel president Mat Staver told the Todd Starnes Radio show there is no doubt the school district is trying to indoctrinate students.
“It is troubling that the school district intentionally hides its LGBT indoctrination from the parents,” Staver said. “The school district has harmed students with its radical LGBT propaganda.”
LGBT-Affirming Church Takes Out Billboard: ‘God Takes Pride in You’
Jul 8, 2018
A San Diego church took out a billboard that reads, “Radically Inclusive: God takes pride in you, so do we!”
Missiongathering Christian Church, a self-proclaimed “radically inclusive” Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), bought a billboard above a popular gay bar in Hillcrest, reports say. The church says they purchased this billboard because it’s located along the route of the San Diego LGBT+ Pride Parade.
The church hopes that people participating in the July 14 parade, which church members will be participating in, will see their church’s message and feel welcomed.
“For far too long, Christians have been known for who we are against,” Brandon Robertson, a pastor at Missiongathering, tells Fox 5.
“We’re afraid of difference. We only desire to make the world conform to our image of what is right and good.”
Missiongathering believes that “God’s creativity [is] expressed in various races, sexual orientations, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, faiths and backgrounds,”
By John L. Allen Jr. and Hada Messia, CNN July 29th, 2013
Aboard the Papal Airplane (CNN) – Pope Francis said Monday that he will not “judge” gays and lesbians, including gay priests, signaling a shift from his predecessor and offering another sign that the new pope is committed to changing the church’s approach to historically marginalized groups.
“If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”
Francis said in a wide-ranging news conference aboard the papal plane.
Though he was answering a question about the so-called “gay lobby” at the Vatican, the pope indicated a change in tone, if not in teaching, in the church’s stance towards gays and lesbians more generally.
The pope was flying back to Rome from Brazil, where he spent the past week celebrating World Youth Day, an international Catholic event that drew millions.
Taking questions from reporters aboard the plane, the pope addressed nearly every hot-button issue facing the Roman Catholic Church: its alleged “gay lobby,” Vatican bank corruption, the role of women, abortion, homosexuality and his own personal security.
But it was the pope’s remarks on homosexuality – the fact that the head of a 1 billion-member church said that it’s not his place to judge gays – that caused the widest stir.
“Pope Francis’s brief comment on gays reveals great mercy,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor at America, a Catholic magazine based in New York.
“Today Pope Francis has, once again, lived out the Gospel message of compassion for everyone,” Martin said.
The pontiff spoke for an hour and a half in the back of the plane that was carrying him back to Italy after his first international trip as pope to Brazil, where he was greeted by massive, frenzied crowds at every turn.
“I’m happy. It has been a beautiful trip, spiritually speaking; it has been good to me. I’m tired enough but with a heart full of joy,” he said.
Here are the highlights from his press conference.
On the ‘gay lobby’ and homosexuality
The pope addressed the issue of an alleged “gay lobby” within the church. Hints that the Holy See contained a network of gay clergy surfaced last year in reports about a series of embarrassing leaks to Italian journalists.
The “Vatileaks” scandal factored in Benedict’s shocking decision to resign this year, according to some church experts, as it impressed upon the 86-year-old pontiff that the modern papacy requires a vigorous and watchful presence.
“There’s a lot of talk about the gay lobby, but I’ve never seen it on the Vatican ID card!” Francis said.
“When I meet a gay person, I have to distinguish between their being gay and being part of a lobby. If they accept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them?\
They shouldn’t be marginalized. The tendency (to homosexuality) is not the problem … they’re our brothers.”
The problem, he said was, lobbies that work against the interest of the church.
In 2005, during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican issued directives barring from the priesthood men “who are actively homosexual, have deep-seated homosexual tendencies, or support the so-called ‘gay culture.'”
Francis’ brief remarks seem to signal a sharp shift from that policy.
On women
The pope also spoke out about the role of women in the church, saying it needs to be deeper and not end. But he brushed aside the possibility of ordaining women as priests, saying the church had spoken on the matter: “The church says no. That door is closed.”
He did say that more work needed t be done theologically on the role of women in the church.
On abortion
Pope watchers have noted that Francis said little to nothing about abortion on his trip to Brazil. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except for cases in which the health of the mother is at risk. Laws were recently changed to allow abortions in cases in which the child would be born with certain life-threatening birth defects.
The pope said he had nothing to say on the trip about abortion because the church teachings against it were clear and this trip was the time for “positive” news.
On divorce
“I believe this is a time of mercy, a change of epoch,” the pope said when asked about divorce. He said the group of eight cardinals tasked with reform will explore the issue of whether divorcees can receive Communion, which they are currently barred from doing.
On the Vatican Bank
The pope conceded he was unsure what to do with the Vatican Bank, which is known by its acronym IOR.
“Some say that it would be better if it were a bank, others say that it should be a foundation. Other say to shut it down. These are the suggestions going around. I don’t know. I trust the commission’s members that are working on the IOR. But I wouldn’t be able to tell you how this story is going to end.”
And as for what was in the black leather bag he carried onto the plane? A razor, a prayer book, a diary and a book about St. Theresa, but, the pope joked, “Certainly not the keys to the atomic bomb!”
He said he carried his own bags because, “It’s normal, we have to be normal. We have to be accustomed to being normal.”
CNN’s Eric Marrapodi and Daniel Burke contributed to this report.
Sometimes it seems as if there is nothing sacred left in America.
On June 16, during what would normally be a routine Sunday morning worship service for churches around the country, Cincinnati’s Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church decided Pride month was a valid enough excuse to have one member dress in full drag and teach children LGBT history.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, church caretaker Dan Davidson taught children about Harvey Milk — California’s first openly gay elected official — using his bizarre guise of “Sparkle Leigh.”
As “Sparkle Leigh,” Davidson sported a pink dress, wore an inordinate amount of makeup and donned green curls.
He greeted parishioners who walked through the church doors, many of whom made positive comments on his gaudy attire and kissed him on the cheek.
“I don’t think I could walk in those,” one woman reportedly said in reference to Davidson’s high heels.
The “service” eventually began, starting with the song “God Welcomes All” performed by the church choir.
Davidson continued his drag queen persona during the service’s “moment with youngest disciples” and read a book about Milk’s time fighting those who discriminated against LGBT individuals in California.
The church’s congregation — made up of children, teenagers, adults and seniors — cheered at the victorious moments in Milk’s story.
Davidson also recounted the story of how he came out as an LGBT individual.
It’s all part of a running theme for the church as Pride month continues.
“We seek to be as inclusive and embracing as Jesus was,” MAPC’s “About Us” section on its website’s homepage states. “Therefore, everyone is invited into full membership and ministry, regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, ability, or worldly condition.”
Christian churches should certainly invite all people of any “worldly condition” to worship, but not so they can continue their worldly lifestyle.
Rather, the goal should be for them to experience a transformation by a relationship with Messiah YAHUSHA and live a life according to the Scriptures.
It’s truly amazing how MAPC continues to function as a church, knowing how much scripture it has to omit or censor to justify its remarkably different Christian worldview.
The sin of omission is real.
The Scriptures is a whole unit — complete, full and lacking nothing.
Leaving out anything ultimately makes the Scriptures, well, not the Scriptures.
Scripture’s 2 Timothy 3:16-17 corroborates this by saying, “All Scripture is YAH-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of YAHUAH may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
With that fact established, the Scriptures is explicitly clear on the issues brought about by the Cincinnati church.
The Apostle Paul, considered one of the greatest Natsarim who ever lived, wrote this in 1 Corinthians 6:18-20: “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.”
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from YAHUAH? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor YAHUAH with your bodies,” the passage adds.
There are no boundaries. There are no rules. There is only selfishness and pride.
MAPC should be at the forefront of protecting the sanctity of marriage, reinforcing that Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit and helping people overcome sin in their lives through the ultimate price that YAHUSHA paid.
(Natural News) At the start of the new year, the embattled United Methodist Church came to an agreement about dividing the denomination in order to please its LGBTQ contingent, which is demanding full access to all leadership positions within the religious institution as well as sanctioned same-sex “marriages.”
Signed by 16 different church leaders on both sides of the issue, the agreement allows for same-sex “marriage” ceremonies to be held, and openly LGBTQ clergy to work, at all United Methodist locations. More conservative congregations that object to these two allowances would be free to leave the denomination and take their property with them, according to the agreement.
United Methodists have been at odds with each other for many years over the LGBTQ issue, as “loud and proud” members and clergy want to openly celebrate lifestyles and behaviors that the Bible prohibits, while more traditional Methodists say no way. But this ideological and theological impasse could finally have a resolution in the form of an official split.
If the agreement is officially accepted, United Methodist churches that prefer to stick with the Word of God rather than capitulate to the shifting sands of our spiraling society would be given $25 million to start their own denomination, and associated clergy would be allowed to keep their United Methodist pensions. The LGBTQs, on the other hand, would assume full ownership of the original United Methodist denomination.
In order to take effect, the agreement will have to be approved at the denomination’s next general conference, which takes place in May. Because advocates on all sides of the issue have been actively involved in the negotiation process, Ken Carter, president of the United Methodist Church’s council of bishops, is reportedly optimistic that it will pass.
Last year, the United Methodist Church actually convened a special general conference specifically to address the LGBTQ question – and soon to be the LGBTQP question, as pedophilia joins the “rainbow” – but it ended without a clear resolution. The denomination’s members ultimately voted against allowing same-sex marriage, but this hasn’t stopped the more “progressive” United Methodist congregations from continuing to conduct them anyway, as well as hire LGBTQ clergy to their ranks.
This United Methodist split is just the “wheat” separating from the “tares,” just like the Bible said would happen
Because there hasn’t been an agreed-upon solution to this irreparable “wheat” and “tares” division within the United Methodist denomination, some of its more Bible-based members have suggested dissolving the denomination entirely. This new agreement hopes to accomplish that in a more amicable way, though the more conservative wing of the denomination will have to pay the bigger price.
“There are simply some convictions and matters of conscience that do not allow people to be in unity with each other,” Carter is quoted as saying during a recent interview, emphasizing that while he doesn’t want the denomination to split, there appears to be no other option.
Nobody likes the idea of division, but as we’re seeing in our nation politically, division exists whether we like it or not. Heck, even Jesus Christ himself stated, as per the gospels, that he didn’t come to bring peace on earth, but rather a sword – a sword analogizing the cutting, or dividing, that his gospel message would accomplish.
It’s unfortunate that a large enough contingent of pro-LGBTQ Methodists has driven the denomination to this point, but it’s not surprising. The fact that a United Methodist location in Durham, North Carolina, recently held a “Drag Me to Church” drag queen performance in its sanctuary suggests that Jesus and his teachings have long been abandoned and replaced with the gospel of LGBTQ within the rotting core of the United Methodist establishment.
To keep up with the latest news about the attack on Christianity that’s taking place from within, be sure to check out Evil.news.
Truthers Journal 