Gay Church? HEATED Religion Debate With Michael Knowles
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families who fear for their lives in Democratic and Republican families. Some fear that our country will soon be woke no longer. They ve signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
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is a little more complex than I'm afraid you're coming from.
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If you're going to teach people to pray a different way
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So I guess my question is, why would you not respect God's pronouns?
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Well, because clearly there are other places in scripture
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I think your view of what the Bible is is inaccurate.
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The Bible is not the inerrant word of God quite clearly.
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The morning after President Trump's inauguration,
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on the supposed Christian duty to embrace LGBT identity.
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There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children
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in Democratic, Republican, and independent families.
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They signed an order making it the official policy
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that there are only two genders, male and female.
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who describes himself as an undomesticated queer reverend,
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writer, liturgical artist, yogi, social justice advocate,
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and Johnny Artevanis, pastor at Stonebridge Bible Church
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because you're nearest to me on the screen right now.
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of whether or not LGBT is a part of Christianity
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and if that identity is condemned by Christianity
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or if it is actually a constitutive part of it.
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that are traditionally used against LGBT people.
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I lead a church, others on this panel lead in churches.
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that one typically cites against homosexuality.
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that the sin of Sodom was that they were unhospitable
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what was happening is sex between men and angels,
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What do you make then of the epistle of St. Jude?
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You know, Jude 7 says that just as Sodom and Gomorrah
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and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally
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and indulged in unnatural lust, so on and so forth.
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Doesn't that inclusion of unnatural lust clarify
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And I think it's quite clear that what Jude is condemning
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which is a surprising thing that you find in Genesis
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the angels, having sex with the daughters of men
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And I think that's exactly what Jude is condemning.
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I think that's what Sodom and Gomorrah is condemning as well.
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I think probably one thing maybe preface, Michael, would be,
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you know, the conversation would be framed a little bit different
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if I was talking with someone that was struggling
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you know, even he mentioned Ezekiel 16, 46 through 50,
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and what they were doing was committing an abomination,
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it refers to something that is egregious to God
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There are other passages that I'm sure we'll explore,
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begins with the marriage between a man and a woman.
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So marriage is the central metaphor of Scripture,
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So we could be talking about any sexual activity
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You know, I really like this point that you're making here,
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which is that we should even frame it differently
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whatever that means, you know, that could be so broad,
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might have developed early on some kind of inclination
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toward acts that are traditionally considered immoral.
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the sin of drunkenness until you actually do it.
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Reverend Alexander, I want to bring you back in.
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I suspect I know which side you're going to come out on
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So I'd love to hear your position, first of all.
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with precisely the second part of the question,
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If you're criminalizing the ability of a person
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that they're going to end up in hell for eternity,