This Site Aims to Promote the Historic Oil Region of Northwestern Pennsylvania as a Welcoming Place for All and to Challenge the Bigotry of Those Who Seek to Exclude Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender People from Open and Equal Participation in Community Life, particularly the Venango County-based Hate Group known as the American Family Association of Pennsylvania. Learn more at OutintheSilence.com
Monday, June 23, 2008
How Can I Be Sure That God Loves Me Too?
Taped live before an amazing congregation in Spring Lake, Michigan, this is Mel White's response to those who misuse the Bible to make outcasts of God's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children. To know how God feels about outcasts, Mel takes a closer look at the life and teachings of Jesus (himself an outcast) who with all the Jewish and Christian prophets proclaimed God's special love for outcasts. For more resources on freedom for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, visit www.soulforce.org.
Why did Jesus say in Matthew 19:5, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" if he thought same sex marriage was okay?
ReplyDeleteMel White is right - God does love the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenders of the world. Jesus loved the outcasts of the world and talked about God's love for them. He said in Matthew 15, "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man unclean.' Jesus talked a lot about needing to 'repent' from sins or you too will perish. What did he mean by repent and sins? Would a god who loves us judge us?
Maybe we are all 'bigots' not just Diane Gramley and Jane Richey. The dictionary says a bigot is one who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own belief or opinion. Seems like a lot of people on this blog could be defined in that manner.