Without such biblical clarity, We have no context for the cross and no ongoing awareness of our need for Grace and Mercy. Without a robust perspective on sin, the very notion of what it means to KNOW GOD is profoundly weakened. The sober Truth is that without Full disclosure on sin, the Gospel of Grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary and finally uninteresting. And whatever we try to do in our own strength does not have as it's goal the glory of God and does not get its life from the fountain of the gospel.
When I met my fiance, I wasn't a Christian.
I was a Professing Catholic who was not practicing Catholicism.
I was very open, I told him, "I do dudes and date chicks."
His words cut deep when he told me, "you don't know God."
At the time it seemed absurd, how could someone "know God."
My response was me mocking him...
But he was right, I didn't know God.
That was the very 1st time someone ever said that to me, And I never forgot it. And after Salvation took place, I knew, I knew God... Now I can say, "I know God!"
“For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
God's condemnation of homosexuality is abundantly clear--He opposes it in every age.
- In the patriarchs (Genesis 19:1-28)
- In the Law of Moses (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13)
- In the Prophets (Ezekiel 16:46-50)
- In the New Testament (Romans 1:18-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Jude 7-8)
Homosexuality in the Old Testament/The Jewish Scriptures
Proverbs 16:4
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.
Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, BOTH of them HAVE COMMITTED AN ABOMINATION; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them (RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR).
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; IT IS AN ABOMINATION.
20:13
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, BOTH of them HAVE COMMITTED AN ABOMINATION; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them (RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR).
Homosexuality in the New Testament
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
DO NOT BE DECEIVED: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, NOR MEN WHO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT YOU WERE WASHED, YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD (This makes it personal for myself, because such WAS I).
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
DO NOT BE DECEIVED: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, NOR MEN WHO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT YOU WERE WASHED, YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD (This makes it personal for myself, because such WAS I).
There were former homosexuals in the Corinthian church back in Paul's day, just as there are many former homosexuals today in my church and in faithful churches around the country. With regenerated hearts, they sit in biblical churches throughout the country praising their Savior, along with former fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, thieves, coveters, drunkards, revilers, and swindlers. Remember, such were some of you too.
First Corinthians 6 is very clear about the eternal consequence for those who practice homosexuality--but there's good news. No matter what the sin is, whether homosexuality or anything else, God has provided forgiveness, salvation, and the hope of eternal life to those who repent and embrace the gospel.
Why does God condemn homosexuality?
Because it overturns God's fundamental design for human relationships--a design that pictures the complementary relationship between a man and a woman (Genesis 2:18-25; Matthew 19:4-6; Ephesians 5:22-33).
They habitually seek happiness (Gay used to mean happy, but I can assure you, homosexuals are not happy people...) by following after destructive pleasures (they do not follow Christ, they follow after destructive pleasures).
Romans 1:26-28
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife (wife/guné: a woman; a woman, wife, my lady) and each woman her own husband (husband/anér: a man; a male human being).
2 Corinthians 12:21
...I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have NOT REPENTED of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have PRACTICED.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife (wife/guné: a woman; a woman, wife, my lady) and each woman her own husband (husband/anér: a man; a male human being).
2 Corinthians 12:21
...I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have NOT REPENTED of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have PRACTICED.
sexual immorality
porneia: fornication
Original Word: πορνεία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: porneia
Phonetic Spelling: (por-ni'-ah)
Short Definition: fornication, idolatry
Definition: fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry.
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: porneia
Phonetic Spelling: (por-ni'-ah)
Short Definition: fornication, idolatry
Definition: fornication, whoredom; met: idolatry.
4202 porneía (the root of the English terms "pornography, pornographic"; cf. 4205 /pórnos) which is derived from pernaō, "to sell off") – properly, a selling off (surrendering) of sexual purity; promiscuity of any (every) type.
There is a reason Romans 1:26 calls homosexual desire a "degrading passion." It is a lust that destroys the physical body, ruins relationships, and brings perpetual suffering to the soul--and its ultimate end is death (Romans 7:5). Homosexuals are experiencing the judgment of God (Romans 1:24, 26, 28).
For this reason God gave them up to DISHONORABLE passions.
For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are CONTRARY to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing SHAMELESS acts with men and RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a DEBASED MIND TO DO WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE.
1:32
Though they know God's decree (Basically I'm holding you accountable, because you say you're a Christian, and you name The name of Christ), that those who practice such things deserve to die, THEY NOT ONLY DO THEM but GIVE APPROVAL (to those who practice them).
I'm just as guilty if I don't say Anything... Because I'm either on the fence (I wanna be a peacemaker, don't wanna ruffle any feathers, might offend someone) or I'm ashamed to speak up and I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL!
For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are CONTRARY to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing SHAMELESS acts with men and RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a DEBASED MIND TO DO WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE.
1:32
Though they know God's decree (Basically I'm holding you accountable, because you say you're a Christian, and you name The name of Christ), that those who practice such things deserve to die, THEY NOT ONLY DO THEM but GIVE APPROVAL (to those who practice them).
I'm just as guilty if I don't say Anything... Because I'm either on the fence (I wanna be a peacemaker, don't wanna ruffle any feathers, might offend someone) or I'm ashamed to speak up and I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL!
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Homosexuals stand in defiant rebellion against the will of their Creator who from the beginning "made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4).
Homosexuals stand in defiant rebellion against the will of their Creator who from the beginning "made them male and female" (Matthew 19:4).
1 Timothy 1:10, 11
The sexually immoral, men WHO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is CONTRARY TO SOUND DOCTRINE
in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God (with which I have been entrusted).
Jude 1:4 The sexually immoral, men WHO PRACTICE HOMOSEXUALITY, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is CONTRARY TO SOUND DOCTRINE
in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God (with which I have been entrusted).
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, UNGODLY PEOPLE, WHO PERVERT THE GRACE OF OUR GOD INTO SENSUALITY and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which LIKEWISE INDULGED IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY and PURSUED UNNATURAL DESIRE, serve as an example by undergoing a PUNISHMENT OF ETERNAL FIRE.
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which LIKEWISE INDULGED IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY and PURSUED UNNATURAL DESIRE, serve as an example by undergoing a PUNISHMENT OF ETERNAL FIRE.
Therefore be imitators of God...
...sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness MUST NOT EVEN BE NAMED AMONG YOU, as is proper among SAINTS.
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), HAS NO INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST AND GOD.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Therefore do not become partners with them;
Eph. 5:1, 3, 5-7
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION: that you ABSTAIN from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in HOLINESS and HONOR, NOT IN THE PASSION OF LUST LIKE THE GENTILES WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD.
What should be your response to the homosexual?
Make it a gospel response--confront them with the truth of Scripture that condemns them as a sinner, and point them to the hope of salvation through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Stay faithful to the Lord as you respond to homosexuality by honoring His Word, and leave the results to Him.
They don't need healing--homosexuality is not a disease.
They don't need therapy--homosexuality is not a psychological condition.
Homosexuals need forgiveness, because homosexuality is a sin.
Homosexuals need salvation. As you interact with homosexuals and their sympathizers, you must affirm the Bible's condemnation. You are not trying to bring damnation on the head of homosexuals, you are trying to bring conviction so that they can turn from that sin and embrace the only hope of salvation for all of us sinners--and that's through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
To proudly proclaim acceptance of unrepentant, gross & heinous sin is to embrace the folly of the church at Corinth. And utterly unloving.
Make it a biblical response--confront it with the truth of Scripture that condemns homosexuality and promises eternal damnation for all who practice it.
Don't allow yourself to be intimidated by homosexual advocates and their futile reasoning--their arguments are without substance. Homosexuals, and those who advocate that sin, are fundamentally committed to overturning the lordship of Christ in this world. But their rebellion is useless, for the Holy Spirit says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; cf. Galatians 5:19-21).
As a Christian, you must not compromise what the Bible says about homosexuality--ever. This is why We (Christians), have the authority to say something, because We are ambassadors for Christ (we represent Him)!
Acts 5:29 “We must obey GOD rather than men."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
As a Christian, you must not compromise what the Bible says about homosexuality--ever. This is why We (Christians), have the authority to say something, because We are ambassadors for Christ (we represent Him)!
Acts 5:29 “We must obey GOD rather than men."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
- Cicero, 42 B.C.
- Cicero, 42 B.C.
The New World Order:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 17, 1961 about the New World Order. He spoke of the importance of guarding against the potential influence of the "military industrial complex", the dangers of massive deficit spending, government influence on scholars, and a "scientific technoligical elite".
Months later after taking office, President John F. Kennedy explained that he, too, recognized the New World Order; how it worked, who was behind it, and its dangers. He spoke about it in a speech on April 27, 1961.
He said, "For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."
The public disclosure of the New World Order was silenced on Nov. 22, 1963 when President Kennedy was cut down by an assassins bullet.
Subsequent Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan got the message and little was heard about a New World Order. Instead, the infrastructure of the New World Order were quietly developed while the world succumbed to what Eisenhower called, "the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow."
Subsequent Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan got the message and little was heard about a New World Order. Instead, the infrastructure of the New World Order were quietly developed while the world succumbed to what Eisenhower called, "the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow."
But sadly, when people refuse to acknowledge the sinfulness of homosexuality--calling evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20)--they do so at the expense of many souls.
-John MacArthur
Some Christians, including somenational church leaders, have wavered on the issue even recently:
We must each resist their efforts to divide us by taking personal responsibility for all the aforementioned suggestions and connect with other "like-minded" Christian patriots who can encourage and build us up.
Instead of seeking ways to water down our principles and our traditions to the point where they can be accepted by and merged with those of the majority of the rest of the world, we should be striving actually to improve and upgrade our way of life even beyond present standards, and then let the rest of the world follow our example, if they so wish.
Today the professed church is attempting to flee from its responsibility to be part of the political process when in fact God is the one who gave government (Exodus 18:21). The church is to overcome evil with good. And as our forefathers rightly stated, “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Paraphrase
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time is coming (The sin of apostasy) when PEOPLE (The Lukewarm Church Revelation 3:14-22), WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND TEACHING (the abandonment of Christian doctrine and conduct), but having itching ears "they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions (Defection from the faith, an act of unpardonable rebellion against God and his truth)."
"At conservative church, once-shunned gays fuel growth"
Minister Cynthia Andrews-Looper (a former standup comedian), she is a lesbian. She started a Bible study with a handful of other gay Christians in July 1996, which eventually led to starting Holy Trinity, affiliated with the United Church of Christ denomination.
Andrews-Looper used conservative theology combined with a progressive view of sexual orientation to grow the congregation to 600, making it one of the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender congregations in the Southeast.
Scott Thumma, a sociologist of religion at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, has studied gay churches for decades. He said that many churches that welcome and affirm gay Christians belong to mainline denominations such as the Episcopal Church or the Presbyterian Church (USA), and those churches tend to be more liberal.
Holy Trinity teaches members to believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth and the Resurrection. Church members say they have a high view of the authority of the Bible but don't believe that it teaches that homosexuality is a sin.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-10-19/gay-church-tennessee/50831694/1
Why am I seeing "professing Christians" PhotoShop'n their profile photos with a "rainbow" showing their support of LGBT's?
I get the lost/unsaved doing it, but "professing Christians" you ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-
The ruling overturns any state bans against gay marriage.
Previously, gay couples were permitted to marry in 37 states and the District of Columbia.
According to a Washington Post-ABC poll, national attitudes are changing, as 61 percent of Americans said they supported same-sex marriage.
The decision will be met with criticism by many faith leaders across the country. Christian Today reports over 50,000 Christian leaders have signed a pledge of support for biblical marriage. The signers said that the U.S. Supreme Court “has no authority to redefine marriage.”
Previous to the Court’s ruling, many pastors vowed to refuse to officiate gay marriages, regardless of the outcome.
http://www.christianheadlines.
President Barack Obama is pushing a change in policy that will force faith-based charities to hire members of the LGBT community — despite their religious objections — if they want to remain eligible for federal funding.For the time is coming (The sin of apostasy) when PEOPLE (The Lukewarm Church Revelation 3:14-22), WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND TEACHING (the abandonment of Christian doctrine and conduct), but having itching ears "they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions (Defection from the faith, an act of unpardonable rebellion against God and his truth)."
"At conservative church, once-shunned gays fuel growth"
Minister Cynthia Andrews-Looper (a former standup comedian), she is a lesbian. She started a Bible study with a handful of other gay Christians in July 1996, which eventually led to starting Holy Trinity, affiliated with the United Church of Christ denomination.
Andrews-Looper used conservative theology combined with a progressive view of sexual orientation to grow the congregation to 600, making it one of the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender congregations in the Southeast.
Scott Thumma, a sociologist of religion at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, has studied gay churches for decades. He said that many churches that welcome and affirm gay Christians belong to mainline denominations such as the Episcopal Church or the Presbyterian Church (USA), and those churches tend to be more liberal.
Holy Trinity teaches members to believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth and the Resurrection. Church members say they have a high view of the authority of the Bible but don't believe that it teaches that homosexuality is a sin.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-10-19/gay-church-tennessee/50831694/1
Why am I seeing "professing Christians" PhotoShop'n their profile photos with a "rainbow" showing their support of LGBT's?
I get the lost/unsaved doing it, but "professing Christians" you ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-
The ruling overturns any state bans against gay marriage.
Previously, gay couples were permitted to marry in 37 states and the District of Columbia.
According to a Washington Post-ABC poll, national attitudes are changing, as 61 percent of Americans said they supported same-sex marriage.
The decision will be met with criticism by many faith leaders across the country. Christian Today reports over 50,000 Christian leaders have signed a pledge of support for biblical marriage. The signers said that the U.S. Supreme Court “has no authority to redefine marriage.”
Previous to the Court’s ruling, many pastors vowed to refuse to officiate gay marriages, regardless of the outcome.
http://www.christianheadlines.
The Obama administration is now making sure that faith groups slipping between the cracks can no longer evade hiring homosexuals against their sincerely held religious beliefs.
Faith-based organizations reliant on federal grants are now operating on borrowed time before they will either be forced to hire LGBT individuals or to look for new ways to help fund their humanitarian aid — or shut their doors for good.
Much pressure is being administered by the Left to make sure the homosexual agenda trumps religious freedom.
This pro-LGBT maneuvering is just the latest attempt by the president to make sure the rights of the homosexual community trump religious freedoms.
“Last July, President Obama’s executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating in the hiring of persons identifying as lesbian, gays, bisexuals and transgender — did not exempt religious organizations,” Ruse recounted. “At the time of the announcement, two Bishop-Chairmen with the U.S. Catholic Bishop’s conference immediately rebuked the order stating it was ‘unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed.’”
“Christian organizations cannot offer biblical counseling and, at the same time, hire people who do not follow the Bible and their doctrinal positions on human sexuality,” Liberty Counsel contends.
Men's or Women's? OSHA: Permit Workers to Use Restroom of Their 'Gender Identity'
It's come to this: On Monday, June 1, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a guide telling employers which restrooms their workers may use. Basically, it's up to them.
"For example, a person who identifies as a man should be permitted to use men’s restrooms, and a person who identifies as a woman should be permitted to use women’s restrooms. The employee should determine the most appropriate and safest option for him- or herself."
If co-workers don't like it, tough: OSHA points to an April 2015 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruling, which said "a transgender employee cannot be denied access to the common restrooms used by other employees of the same gender identity, regardless of whether that employee has had any medical procedure or whether other employees’ may have negative reactions to allowing the employee to do so."And finally, OSHA's "best practices" guide on restroom use contains the hint of a threat: "Employers should be aware of specific laws, rules, or regulations regarding restroom access in their states and/or municipalities, as well as the potential application of federal antidiscrimination laws."
OSHA places respect for transgender employees above all: "Regardless of the physical layout of a worksite, all employers need to find solutions that are safe and convenient and respect transgender employees," it says.
It continues: "Restricting employees to using only restrooms that are not consistent with their gender identity, or segregating them from other workers by requiring them to use gender-neutral or other specific restrooms, singles those employees out and may make them fear for their physical safety. Bathroom restrictions can result in employees avoiding using restrooms entirely while at work, which can lead to potentially serious physical injury or illness."
Debating Homosexuality Understanding Two Views
The "gay identity" paradigm includes the belief that being gay is an innate characteristic which cannot change. Yet the empirical case for the "gay identity" paradigm is weak-science has not found that homosexuality is determined by biological or genetic factors, and there is an abundance of evidence that sexual orientation can change.
Of the three aspects of "sexual orientation"-attractions, conduct, and self-identification-social conservatives view homosexual conduct as the most important, and thus operate from a "homosexual conduct" paradigm. We believe homosexual conduct is harmful, and therefore oppose demands that homosexual conduct and relationships be protected, affirmed, and celebrated. The harms associated with homosexuality include serious physical and mental health problems.
Pro-homosexual activists have begun to demand that no debate on the issue of homosexuality be permitted. Yet there are legitimate grounds for debate on the origin, nature, and consequences of homosexuality. That debate should continue, with a respect for honest research and for freedom of thought, speech, and religion.
The Top Ten Myths about Homosexuality
The homosexual activist movement is now over forty years old. Conservatives sometimes refer to the array of goals this movement has pursued--hate crime laws, employment "non-discrimination" laws, same-sex "marriage," etc.--as "the homosexual agenda."
Occasionally, we are mocked for the use of this term, as though we are suggesting that this movement represents some sinister and shadowy conspiracy. However, the term "agenda" is a perfectly neutral one. We in the pro-family movement certainly have our own "agenda." Its elements include: protecting the safety and dignity of human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death; encouraging the practice of sexuality only within the context of marriage between one man and one woman; and promoting the natural family, headed by a married, biological mother and father, as the ideal setting for raising children. We are proud of this "agenda," and will continue to vigorously pursue it.By the same token, homosexual activists have a clear agenda as well. It is an agenda that demands the universal acceptance of homosexual acts and relationships--morally, socially, legally, religiously, politically and financially. Indeed, itcalls for not only acceptance, but affirmation and celebration of this behavior as normal, natural, and even as desirable for those who desire it. There is nothing shadowy or secretive about this agenda--in fact, it has become nearly impossible to avoid encountering it.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BC10E01&f=PG13H01
The year is 1976. Transgender Americans are, for the first time, having a moment. And then interest subsides. The caravan moves on. And the moment is over. How did it take 39 years for us to get all the way back to the starting line?
This time, transgender issues were handled with more knowledge and sensitivity than they were in the 1970s.
But there’s reason to hope that TV’s sudden interest in trans people is not just the brief flare that portends a quick flameout, but a necessary step toward more enduring inclusiveness. One thing that pop culture has always done very well is to get very interested in something all at once. And no medium does that more effectively than television. The delivery system itself is about reliability, familiarity, and predictability. And when the TV hive mind decides to invest in something – as it did in gay characters 20 years ago – it will do its best to make sure you get invested too. That’s what’s happening right now for, and to, Americans who identify as trans.
But it’s an important breakthrough that there are now a handful of people in positions of power with a deep and personal investment in making sure TV gets this right. Four decades ago, we got off to a false start. Now, better late than never, we’re off to a good one.
http://www.ew.com/article/
Honor Roles: Our 50 Favorite Fictional LGBT Characters
http://vonderfully.tumblr.com/
The year is 1976. Transgender Americans are, for the first time, having a moment. And then interest subsides. The caravan moves on. And the moment is over. How did it take 39 years for us to get all the way back to the starting line?
This time, transgender issues were handled with more knowledge and sensitivity than they were in the 1970s.
But there’s reason to hope that TV’s sudden interest in trans people is not just the brief flare that portends a quick flameout, but a necessary step toward more enduring inclusiveness. One thing that pop culture has always done very well is to get very interested in something all at once. And no medium does that more effectively than television. The delivery system itself is about reliability, familiarity, and predictability. And when the TV hive mind decides to invest in something – as it did in gay characters 20 years ago – it will do its best to make sure you get invested too. That’s what’s happening right now for, and to, Americans who identify as trans.
But it’s an important breakthrough that there are now a handful of people in positions of power with a deep and personal investment in making sure TV gets this right. Four decades ago, we got off to a false start. Now, better late than never, we’re off to a good one.
http://www.ew.com/article/
Honor Roles: Our 50 Favorite Fictional LGBT Characters
http://vonderfully.tumblr.com/
Film 'Limited Partnership' Premieres on PBS's INDEPENDENT LENS Tonight
In 1975, A county clerk in Boulder, Colorado, Richard and Tony were one of the first same sex couples to be legally married in the world. Richard immediately filed for a green card for Tony based on their marriage. But unlike most heterosexual married couples who easily obtain legal status for their spouses, Richard received a denial letter (THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR) from the Immigration and Naturalization Service stating, "You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist BETWEEN two faggots."
Note: This statement "faggots" is a harsh and cruel description, they are Homosexuals.
Note: This statement "faggots" is a harsh and cruel description, they are Homosexuals.
...the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing SHAMELESS acts with men and RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR ERROR (Richard received a denial letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service) And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a DEBASED MIND TO DO WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE.
Romans 1:27-28
Outraged at the tone, tenor, and politics of the letter, and to prevent Tony's impending deportation, the couple decided to sue the U.S. government, initiating the first federal lawsuit seeking equal treatment for a same sex marriage in U.S. history.
