Teach Your Church About Homosexuality

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Today we continue our series highlighting special material our friends at Focus on the Family have provided for your family and your church.

Below are two guides Focus on the Family has released on teaching your church about homosexuality and gender confusion.

The guides outline:

  • The cultural shift we are seeing on homosexuality;
  • Ways in which gay activists have distorted biblical teaching on homosexuality;
  • God’s good design for marriage and sexuality;
  • How to lay a solid foundation for teaching your church about marriage and sexuality;
  • Ways in which the church can show Christ-like love to people who struggle with homosexuality without affirming the homosexual lifestyle.

These guides are designed to equip you as a leader in your family and in your church. You can download them below or from our “Resources For Your Church and Family” page.

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Understanding Male Homosexuality: God’s Power to Change Lives, by Jeff Johnston.

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What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality? Answering Revisionist Gay Theology.

 

Talking to Your Church About Homosexuality: A Guide for Pastors and Church Leaders, by Jeff Johnston.

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How Should We Respond? An Exhortation to the Church on Loving the Homosexual, by Joe Dallas.

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Pope: Conscientious Objection to Same-Sex Marriage “a Human Right”

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Before concluding his first visit to the United States, Pope Francis voiced support on Monday for people who decline to solemnize or otherwise facilitate same-sex marriages.

According to NBC News, Pope Francis was asked, “Do you … support those individuals, including government officials, who say they cannot in good conscience, their own personal conscience, abide by some laws or discharge their duties as government officials, for example when issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?”

According to NBC, the pontiff responded, saying:

“I can say that conscientious objection is a right that is a part of every human right. It is a right. . . . Conscientious objection must enter into every juridical structure because it is a right, a human right. Otherwise we would end up in a situation where we select what is a right, saying, ‘this right that has merit, this one does not.’ . . . It is a human right and if a government official is a human person, he has that right. It is a human right.”

Given the Catholic Church’s longstanding history fighting for rights of conscience on issues ranging from military service to abortion, Pope Francis’ remarks really come as no surprise. Bishop Anthony Taylor of the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock summed it up very well a few years ago, when he told a crowd gathered outside the Capitol Building, “Government must not require what conscience forbids or forbid what conscience requires.”

Photo Credit: Jeffrey Bruno from New York City, United States [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Gay Activist Organization Says Religious Exemptions in Fayetteville Ordinance “Too Broad”

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The Human Rights Campaign is the nation’s largest homosexual activist organization. We have written before about how the group is spending an estimated $1 million per year, on average, on its agenda in Arkansas at the moment.

Last year the group was heavily involved in the effort to implement a “nondiscrimination” ordinance in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The ordinance was overturned by voters last December–but only after a protracted campaign.

The Fayetteville City Council recently referred out a similar ordinance for voters to consider on September 8. Fayetteville voters will have the opportunity–once again–to keep or reject the ordinance. This time, however, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the Human Rights Campaign feels the religious exemptions in the ordinance are “too broad.” (more…)

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