ephemeralsplendor

I’m here and I’m queer. 🌈 I’m 30 and left the LC at 24. I’m trained as a therapist, I’m an LGBT+ educator, and my primary mode of therapy was gender and sexuality affirmative counseling. Although I’m agnostic now, I’ve personally found a ton of healing in Jewish biblical theology. They do a lot less biblical literalism and rely more on bringing their religion into the real world of today (perhaps minus some ultra orthodox sects). There is plenty of argument out there from both Jewish scholars and Christian scholars alike who argue that the Bible never condemned homosexuality, but instead condemned pedophilia (which was rampant in Greek culture at the time) and infidelity. There are very sound linguistic arguments that anti lgbt+ portions of the Old Testament were purposely mis translated or at the very least translated through biases of the translator and the time. Personally I don’t give much credence to the NT as a source of theology on this topic because I think Paul was skewed on many topics such as marriage and tradition as well as gender and sexuality.

All that to say, there is no concrete agreement among biblical scholars that being gay is wrong or against the Bible. There is plenty of Biblical argument for minding one’s own business and letting people live their walk with God as they are called (see Roman’s 14 for a start). You aren’t going to save anyone from whatever you think damnation is by hating queer people. You’re only going to drive queer people to suicide and give yourselves blood pressure problems in the mean time by being upset about other people’s relationships.