When did it become bad to be gay
Bad Religion book: Gay relationships and Christianity.
Will,
If the Christian view of homosexuality were just grounded in a single passage in Leviticus and a single route in the Pauline epistles, then the kind of modern reinterpretation you’re suggesting would be—well, not uncomplicated, exactly, but relatively plausible. What I try to suggest in Bad Religion, though, is that the problem runs deeper than this. The Christian view of gay sex is bound up in the Christian view of linear sex, which is rooted in the entirety of the biblical narrative, from the creation story in Genesis down through Jesus’ words in the Novel Testament. It’s a narrative in which human sexuality has a clear teleology—the reunification of the two equal-but-different halves of humanity (“male and female he created them … therefore a man shall abandon his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh …”), and the begetting of children within a context that’s intended be a kind of microcosm of humanity as a whole.
This narrative of one-flesh complementarity explains why Christians possess traditionally rejected both the sexual authoritarianism inherent in polygamy and the sexual individu
What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
What Does The Bible Tell About Homosexuality?
Introduction
For the last two decades, Pew Research Center has reported that one of the most enduring ethical issues across Christian traditions is sexual diversity. For many Christians, one of the most frequently first-asked questions on this topic is, “What does the Bible say about attraction to someone of the alike sex?”
Although its unlikely that the biblical authors had any notion of sexual orientation (for example, the term homosexual wasn't even coined until the belated 19th century) for many people of faith, the Bible is looked to for timeless guidance on what it means to honor God with our lives; and this most certainly includes our sexuality.
Before we can leap into how it is that Christians can maintain the authority of the Bible and also affirm sexual diversity, it might be helpful if we started with a little but clear overview of some of the assumptions informing many Christian approaches to understanding the Bible.
What is the Bible?
For Christians to whom the Bible is God’s very written word, it is widely understood that God produced its contents through inspired
by Jordan Redman
Staff Writer
Do you realize what the synonyms gay really means?
The word gay dates back to the 12th century and comes from the Old French “gai,” meaning “full of joy or mirth.” It may also relate to the Old High German “gahi,” meaning impulsive.
For centuries, gay was used commonly in speech and literature to mean content, carefree, bright and showy, and did not take on any sexual essence until the 1600s.
At that time the meaning of homosexual as carefree evolved to imply that a person was unrestrained by morals and prone to decadence and promiscuity. A prostitute might have been described as a “gay woman” and a womanizer as a “gay man.”
“Gay house” was commonly used to refer to a brothel and, later, “gaiety” was used as a common name for certain places of entertainment.
In the 1890s, the term “gey cat” (a Scottish variant of gay) was used to describe a vagrant who offered sexual services to women or a youthful traveler who was new to the road and in the company of an older man.
This latter use suggests that the younger man was in a sexually yielding role and may be among the first times that gay was used implying a lgbtq+ relationship.
In 1951, homosexual appeared in the
March 02, 2017
The Epidemic of
Gay LonelinessBy Michael Hobbes
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“I used to get so elated when the meth was all gone.”
This is my friend Jeremy.
“When you contain it,” he says, “you have to keep using it. When it’s gone, it’s like, ‘Oh excellent, I can go help to my life now.’ I would stay up all weekend and depart to these sex parties and then feel fancy shit until Wednesday. About two years ago I switched to cocaine because I could work the next day.”
Jeremy is telling me this from a hospital bed, six stories above Seattle. He won’t tell me the accurate circumstances of the overdose, only that a stranger called an ambulance and he woke up here.
Jeremy is not the ally I was expecting to have this conversation with. Until a few weeks ago, I had no idea he used anything heavier than martinis. He is trim, intelligent, gluten-free, the kind of guy who wears a perform shirt no matter what day of the week it is. The first time we met, three years ago, he asked me if I knew a good place to do CrossFit. Today, when I ask him how the hospital’s been so far, the first thing he says is that there’s no Wi-F
Gay rights 50 years on: 10 ways in which the UK has changed
Definitions can sometimes be tricky though - the UK is included despite Northern Ireland's ban. Brazil and Mexico are also on ILGA's list because "through one legal path or another, it appears to be possible to wedding in most jurisdictions".
Germany is not included - MPs gave their approval to same-sex marriage earlier this year but the law does not come into force until October.
Countries where gay marriage is legal
2001 Netherlands
2003 Belgium
2005 Canada, Spain
2006 South Africa
2009 Norway, Sweden
2010 Iceland, Portugal, Argentina
2012 Denmark
2013 Uruguay, New Zealand, France, Brazil
2014 UK (excluding Northern Ireland)
2015 Luxembourg, Ireland, Mexico, USA
2016 Colombia
2017 Finland
A further 28 countries guarantee some civil-partnership recognition according to ILGA.