I’ve had a number of gay friends over the years who are deeply involved with their local churches. CT does tend to be quite liberal, so I’d be surprised if that WASN’T a typical Gay Pride flag.
Yale has a set of letters from Gov William Livingston to my minister g6gf mentioning how good it was that the minister was marrying a virgin so she wouldn’t be able to compare him with anyone else. So I’m guessing they were fairly raunchy back in their day, as well.
“I’ve had a number of gay friends over the years who are deeply involved with their local churches.”
I’ve had to try to figure that out myself while attending college as several of my classmates were in the LGBT category. I find that those who are not LGBT, but sympathize with the movement, are the most hostile towards those who preach Christian morals.
As someone trying to follow the Bible I believe that Christians can befriend homosexuals with the purpose of sharing the Gospel. However, though it is a very difficult admonition to follow, Christians are supposed to separate from any other professing Christian who is known to be practicing certain sins. Among these is fornication / sexual immorality, which includes, as a subset, homosexual relationships.
I have much more of a problem with churches that claim to be Christian but embrace the LGBT agenda than any other part of our society that does so. The Christian and homosexual lifestyles are incompatible and mutually exclusive. Churches should be welcoming and loving to all people, but they are also supposed to call people to repentance and godliness, and warn them of God’s judgment. The message to “come as you are” is good. But the message to “stay as you are” is bad.
“Yale has a set of letters from Gov William Livingston to my minister g6gf mentioning how good it was that the minister was marrying a virgin so she wouldn’t be able to compare him with anyone else.”
May not be the sort of thing to say from the pulpit, but as a Christian it sounds like good advice more than a dirty joke.