Gay is Good.

Gay is good.

No matter what others may say - religious or otherwise - homosexuality is O.K. with God.

Those who rely on archaic texts to justify their prejudice are misguided.

The understanding of homosexuality in the Bible is not our modern understanding of same-sex attraction.

Homosexuality is congenital.

It is a matter of mutually consenting adults.

It is not a sign of willful perversion.

So gay people can look forward to Heaven as others do.

Heaven awaits you.

And the everlasting Love of God. 

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David and Jonathan.

"The soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul....." 

"..... Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that he was wearing, and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt."  1 Samuel 18:1-4 (NRSV)   

"Jonathan lies slain upon your high places, I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you to me, your love was wonderful to me, passing the love of women."  2 Samuel 1:25,26 (NRSV)

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Give.

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."  Psalm 23:1 (NRSV)

"All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need."  Acts 2:44,45 (NRSV)

This is about giving.

But all too often church people are afraid to give.

They hang on to their possessions and their wealth.

Some even preach that God has blessed them with wealth.

But the first converts would have been called Marxists by Conservatives.

And this Spiritual Socialism has seldom been  practised in subsequent generations.

"I shall not want."

So we can let go of our fear and give to those in need.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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