Gay Christians

Hello,

I've created a group for those of us who are gay and christian.  This group is one that embraces the need for spirituality within the gay community.  This is NOT a hate group or intended to be one that embraces hate!  All respectful discussions are welcome!

To tell you about myself, I consider myself to be a Christian man.  I grew up in a Roman Catholic home, and suffice it to say, you can take the boy out of the church but not the church out of the boy!  I feel that my religion has failed me.  To be honest, ostracised me.  I am 32 years old, and I am in a relationship with a wonderful man whom I adore.  We will be getting married in a United Church in our home town.

I believe that God is a loving, all accepting God.  I believe that I was created in his image, and that is not necessarily a straight image.  I believe that an all loving God would never condemn me to hell for something so simple as LOVE.  That being said, I am not saying lust, I am saying love. 

There are wonderful things about religion!  Many good things come out of religion.  The basic fundamentals of religion are to "love one another".  No more, no less.  To a lot of gay people, they feel that the church has failed them.  They feel that they have been subject to hate and bigotry.  Given the patriarchal nature of most religion and our world, it's no wonder that homosexuality is not embraced. 

I can not tell you the number of times someone has dictated verses from the Bible... the Sodom and Gomorrah story, the countless verses about homesexuality being an abomination, etc.  To which I reply, yes.  They are there.  Most being from the Old Testament.  None of which have come directly from Jesus Himself!  Christ said not one word about homosexuality.  Furthermore, seeing as the Bible was written 300 years after Christ's Crucifiction, then translated from language to language.  Then if I'm not mistaken, adopted by the Roman Empire as truth and fact.  No wonder our world is a patriarchal society that doesn't embrace homosexuality, let alone women's right, etc. 

Christ made it simple, "LOVE ONE ANOTHER"!  If we'd just do that, wouldn't we be a better world?  A world that would have less hate, and more acceptance?  I think so, do you?