“Hopefully, Pete’s candidacy is also raising the question for many Christians of whether they need to take a closer look at Scripture and the scriptural passages that Franklin Graham is talking about to make his argument against same-sex marriage to see if, in fact, the Bible is not speaking to committed, loving, same-sex relationships like Mayor Pete’s and like that of millions of same-sex couples and of millions of LGBTQ Christians around the country and around the world.
“So I hope that this will also present an opportunity for many Christians who may have looked to people like Franklin Graham in the past to recognize that this is not a very principled argument anymore, and maybe they need to do their own investigation of Scripture on this topic and also recognize the fact that gay Christians exist and are an important part of the church and that we need to be thinking more critically not just about Scripture, but also about how Jesus would treat the LGBTQ community.”
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