"Nashville Statement": Evangelical Leaders Release Sexuality Manifesto

[underpants]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nashville-statement-evangelical-leaders-release-sexuality-manifesto-n797401

A nationwide coalition of 153 evangelical Christian leaders released a statement Tuesday affirming their conservative beliefs regarding human sexuality.

“We did not make ourselves. We are not our own. Our true identity, as male and female persons, is given by God,” the manifesto’s preamble states. “It is not only foolish, but hopeless, to try to make ourselves what God did not create us to be.”

Six of the Nashville Statement’s 14 listed beliefs directly mention the words or phrases “homosexual,” “transgender” or “sexual attraction for the same sex.” Other beliefs listed take aim at infidelity and sex before marriage.

Several members of President Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board are among the document’s 153 signatories. They include James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of Cross Church; Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary; James MacDonald, founder and senior pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel; and James Robison, founder and president of LIFE Outreach International.

Two of the groups represented on the list — the Alliance Defending Freedom and the Family Research Council — are listed as anti-LGBTQ “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate activity across the U.S.

[SHRED]

1. How about that Lot fellow

And his daughters.

[procon]

2. If their god made all of creation, then he must have made LGBTQ people too, yeah? nt

[haele]

3. But what about those who were made neither or both male and female persons?

Both people with born with androgyny (no sexual organs) or born as hermaphrodites have been around since civilization began. Just calling someone a man because s/he has a penis as well as a vagina or calling someone a woman because s/he doesn't have either a penis or vagina isn't "what God Made". Hell, it's not just people. It's all sorts of critters all over creation where this occurs...it's natural.

If there's the physical evidence of androgynites and hermaphrodites that "God Created", why would it so hard to make the logical progression to the understanding that "God" also "created" Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgendered people?

These people have created their own very small and insecure God to be in charge of their little snowglobe worlds.

Haele

[Initech]

4. Old white men who cheat on and abuse their wives don't get to condemn the sexuality of others.

This was a horrible statement and couldn't possibly have been released at a worse time.