Homosexual relation

Attitudes towards homosexual relationships

What does Christianity say about homosexuality?

Most Church statements that deal with homosexuality only refer to male homosexuality, but the same principles can apply to lesbians.

There are excellent divisions within the Christian community on this issue, with the Roman Catholic Church and some sections of the evangelicalGroup, or church, placing particular emphasis on the gospel and the scriptures as the sole authority in all matters of faith and conduct. churches holding very similar views.

The main arguments for and against homosexuality

Arguments against homosexuality:

• God made male and female according to the GenesisThe first book of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) describing the origins of humanity and humans’ affair with God. to complete each other and to procreate/procreationTo produce/the production of offspring by means of sexual reproduction.. Even if the couple are unable to have children, the sexual union i
  
  

  The Bible and same sex relationships: A review article

  Tim Keller, 

  Vines, Matthew, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same Sex Relationships, Convergent Books,

  Wilson, Ken,A Letter to My Congregation, David Crum Media,

  The relationship of homosexuality to Christianity is one of the main topics of discussion in our culture today. In the fall of last year I wrote a review of books by Wesley Hill and Sam Allberry that take the historic Christian view, in Hill’s words: “that homosexuality was not God’s original innovative intention for humanity and therefore that homosexual apply goes against God’s show will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.”

  There are a number of other books that accept the opposite view, namely that the Bible either allows for or supports same sex relationships. Over the last year or so I (and other pastors at Redeemer) own been regularly asked for responses to their arguments. The two most scan volumes taking this position seem to be those by Matthew Vines and Ken Wilson. The review of these

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  Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males
  • Criminalises sexual activity between females
  • Imposes the death penalty

  Maximum punishment:

  Death penalty

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  Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males

  Maximum punishment:

  Life imprisonment

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  Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual task between males
  • Criminalises sexual action between females
  • Criminalises the gender expression of trans people
  • Imposes the death penalty

  Maximum punishment:

  Death by stoning

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  Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises LGBT people
  • Criminalises sexual activity between males
  • Criminalises sexual activity between females
  • Criminalises the gender verbalization of trans people
  • Maintains discriminatory age of consent

  Maximum punishment:

  Eight years imprisonment and lashes

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  Criminalisation:

  • Criminalises

    Homosexuality

    1. History

    As has been frequently noted, the ancient Greeks did not have terms or concepts that correspond to the contemporary dichotomy of ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ (e.g., Foucault, ). There is a wealth of material from ancient Greece pertinent to issues of sexuality, ranging from dialogues of Plato, such as the Symposium, to plays by Aristophanes, and Greek artwork and vases. What follows is a terse description of ancient Greek attitudes, but it is important to recognize that there was regional variation. For example, in parts of Ionia there were general strictures against same-sex eros, while in Elis and Boiotia (e.g., Thebes), it was approved of and even celebrated (cf. Dover, ; Halperin, ).

    Probably the most frequent assumption about sexual orientation, at least by ancient Greek authors, is that persons can respond erotically to beauty in either sex. Diogenes Laeurtius, for example, wrote of Alcibiades, the Athenian general and politician of the 5^th century B.C., “in his adolescence he drew away the husbands from th