tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post7764339440491782065..comments2023-10-07T04:19:14.316-07:00Comments on A CHRISTIAN VOICE FOR GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS: BEING GAY IS A GIFT FROM GODJerry Manekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-26326120497210939312010-09-05T20:36:00.657-07:002010-09-05T20:36:00.657-07:00You're very welcome, FQ. And your sexuality is...You're very welcome, FQ. And your sexuality is, as is your very life, a gift from God. No LGBT person should take seriously anyone else's rhetoric that tells them differently! Best wishes, Jerry.Jerry Manekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-46298732561799111502010-09-05T20:03:59.759-07:002010-09-05T20:03:59.759-07:00Thank you so much for sharing this Rev. Jerry.
I ...Thank you so much for sharing this Rev. Jerry.<br /><br />I love my sexuality and my identity. It is a gift from God.FQnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-49236222965912040982010-09-04T08:15:06.626-07:002010-09-04T08:15:06.626-07:00Thanks so much, genevieve! Best wishes, Jerry.Thanks so much, genevieve! Best wishes, Jerry.Jerry Manekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-60806024944537449332010-09-04T05:35:13.851-07:002010-09-04T05:35:13.851-07:00Great post, Jerry. It didn't take me long to r...Great post, Jerry. It didn't take me long to realize that God created me as a transgender person. Encouraging others that God loves them and created them is a mission of mine. You're absolutely right that no money or time should be given to a church that denigrates LGBT people or anybody for that matter. <br /><br />Genevievegenevievehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041499205158357183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-83089715298473340502010-09-03T12:17:06.099-07:002010-09-03T12:17:06.099-07:00Thanks so much, Don Charles. As you know, I place...Thanks so much, Don Charles. As you know, I place the blame for most all of the suffering visited upon LGBT people on most of the institutional Church, many of whose clergy bear false witness against LGBT people; ignorantly and/or mendaciously misuse Scripture to the point where so many LGBT people commit suicide, are assaulted, and are even murdered. <br /><br />No LGBT person, and no decent person for that matter, should give any credibility to any such churches by their attendance and money. It's far better, and Godly, to worship God at home, rather than be part of a "church" that knows nothing about the Gospel of grace, the Good News, that solely emanates from the finished work of Jesus Who loves His LGBT children whom He created in the first place, just the way He wanted. Best wishes, Jerry.Jerry Manekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00748201321055468172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688218899576616463.post-37852108799150261242010-09-03T10:36:50.728-07:002010-09-03T10:36:50.728-07:00Jerry,
It's always a good idea to post affirm...Jerry,<br /><br />It's always a good idea to post affirming essays like this one, because the Bible bigots never stop distorting Scripture and making LesBiGay Christians feel that they are defective and doomed. We are the "eunuchs born from our mother's womb" that Jesus Christ spoke of (Matthew 19); we and our Transsexual brethren are blended male and female in one body, an approximation of the mirror image of God. Laws laid down for binary gender males and females to follow (whose heterosexual attraction is as inherent to them as homosexual and bisexual attraction is to us) never applied to born eunuchs! And as you've so eloquently pointed out, the Levitican laws do not apply to ANY Christian, regardless of sexual orientation. I cringe every time I think of how badly Scripture is being taught in most churches.DC HAMPTON JACOBShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09884630801131861786noreply@blogger.com