A post just for chibisama

chibisama asked me to post the relevant Bible verses on homosexuality, and a brief description of my own views.

The latter is easier. I'm bisexual, currently commited heterosexually. I grew up fundamentalist in a rabidly anti-gay church. Every preacher has a hobby horse. Bro. Bob's was gay folk destroying society. This was devastating to a teen who was beginning to realize she wanted to kiss girls the same way she wanted to kiss boys. Over the years, I've held many views. Currently, the one I hold is "God loves me. My job is to love Him and others. The rest is details." I think same-sex marriages should be legal, but I think a church has every right to dictate who it will and will not marry. Just as Fr. Charlie would not have married my husband and I at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Rolla, because we are not Catholic and he did not marry nonCatholics, so Rev. Billy should not have to marry Joe and Fred because his church does not marry gays.

The icon I'm using is Debbie Novotny, from "Queer as Folk." She's den mother to the tribe of Lost Boys that inhabits the show, and Mom to Michael, our narrator. That should say most everything.

I had a long road, and a lot to wrestle with. Also, every guy I dated later came out of the closet. So I had guilt for "turning them gay" as well. I've let go of all that.


Bible Passages:

There are many better sources than my maunderings, so I'm pulling from them:

http://www.stonewallrevisited.com/issues/marco2.html#5
Summarizes both the pro and anti gay sides of theology, but comes down heavy on the anti-gay side

http://www.truluck.com/html/six_bible_passages.html
Recovering from Bible Abuse has this site with the 6 main passages (behind the cut tag) used to condemn homosexuality.
Genesis 19:5
Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13
Romans 1:26-27
I Corinthians 6:9;
I Timothy 1:9-10

http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/dvera/CoEvan/harm/GLBT.html#antiGayBible
This is a very comprehensive link site. Watch the popups since it's Angelfire.

Jesus himself never said anything about it. You'd think if it was a huge, pressing concern, he would have.

And interestingly, Judges 19, the story of the Levite's Concubine (which runs much as the tale of Sodom) is almost never included. Probably because the men who are there to rape the
Levite settle for the woman (a more acceptable target).

( Angel is prooftexting! )

Much of Paul's writing, and the pseudographia of the Pauline letters, is directed to specific churches with specific problems, and is not widely applicable to all churches in all situations. Hence, the appearance that Paul contradicts himself in places. If Church A has Problem A and Church B has Problem B, where B is the exact opposite of A, of course the advice is going to be diametrically opposite. Corinth is not Rome. Nor was all of the NT written by Paul. Many of the letters are attributed to Timothy wfriting in the style of Paul.