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The GOP's proposed national platform is extremely transphobic (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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[+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Are you serious? These are just two verses in the New Testament. However, those are just as it relates to homosexuality. The Bible is also anti-trans, anti-abortion, against women's rights, and against sex outside of marriage. There is a reason many Republicans are the way they are.

Romans 1:26–27:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Neither of those verses reference homosexuality. Try again.

    I’ll give you a hint: you’ll never find an anti homosexual verse in the bible because they don’t exist. Misreadings and incorrect translations have given rise to that belief.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Sorry, but it's actually pretty hard to dismiss the Romans passage, but it is something that can be chalked up to Paul being sex negative, going so far as to exhort people to be chaste or get married if they can't control their passion if, as he noted, they were not free from such passion as he claimed to be. The other passages commonly cited don't reference homosexuality nearly as directly, but it would not be a difficult argument to make that the word choices were specifically defaming homosexuality (especially given how common it is for people to use the same sort of defamation). Which isn't to say that every denomination adheres to the same interpretation of these passages, but they aren't on as theologically shaky ground as we might hope.

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