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Homosexual sex Homosexuality refers to sexual intimacy intimate relationships between either two men or two womenpeople of the same gender. Few issues cause as much division in today's [[church]] as the issue of [[homosexual]] relationships and this relates in part to the deeper issue of Biblical Authority. Conservative Some conservative Christians argue that the [[Bible]] clearly states that God shows us that the only right place for a sexual relationship is in a [[marriage]] between a man and a woman, and that outside of this, it is a [[sin]] against [[God]]. Some [[ More liberal Christian]]s Christians deem that homosexual relationships are not wrong if they are between two loving partners. They argue that a 'trajectory' is outlined in Scripture, revealing God's ever expanding love and encompassing of what was once forbidden. The liberal argument also often involves complex translation and linguistic discrepancies between editions of the bible, as well as a [[symbolic reading]] of the text, while the conservative argument relies on a strict reading of the passages.

In the developed world, especially particularly North-Western [[Europe]] and [[North America]], some many church [[denominations]] have embraced the liberal viewpoint often , sometimes causing large splits in strife within congregations. One of the major developments in recent years has been in the [[Episcopal Church ]] of the USA]], in which an openly practicing homosexual man, [[Gene Robinson]] , was ordained as a bishop. This has caused enormous divide within the [[Anglican Communion]] , and resulted in 2008 , pressured by conservative congregation members, resulted in a conference ([[GAFCON]]) being called to rival challenge the ruling; however, the church ruled in favor of Gene Robinson. Homosexuality, in recent years, has become one of the once most controversial issues in a decade [[Lambeth Conference]]Christianity, if not the singularly most controversial, particularly due to western society's gradual acceptance of homosexuality, partly due to work in the fields of psychology, sociology, biology and philosophy that are often in opposition to the position of many conservative denominations, although conservative Christians typically hold the stance that secular findings are not apropos to His deigning of morality and are thus not applicable. This may be leading Difficulties concerning homosexuality also arise due to a schismconflicting translations and conflict between passages directly remarking on homosexuality and other, more broad passages, that propose complex, semantic questions.

There are a number of Biblical passage passages that teach against the practice of homsexulityrefer to homosexuality, either directly or tangentially.

1 Timothy lumps briefly refers to homosexuality in with the context of a whole list of other sins including sexual immoralitythings, which he deems as sin, lies and slave-trading. that he has seen:

In Leviticus , God speaks through Moses of the unnatural nature of homosexuality in graphic terms:

1 Corinthians, like Paul's letter to Timothy, also notes homosexuality within a list of other sins.:

And in In Romans, Paul talks about again refers to homosexuality as going against the grain of nature. : : ''{{Bible verse|Romans|1|18|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|19|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|20|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|21|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|26|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|27|lang=WEB}} {{Bible verse|Romans|1|28|lang=WEB}}'':: - [[Romans 1]]:[[Bible:Romans 1:18|18]][[Bible:Romans 1:19|-]][[Bible:Romans 1:21|21]] [[Romans 1]]:[[Bible:Romans 1:26|26]][[Bible:Romans 1:27|-]][[Bible:Romans 1:28|28]]

Other The writers of the [[New Testament writers ]] also speak about the wrong of occasionally note homosexuality. In Jude and 2 Peter homosexuality is again condemned.mentioned:

===Recent Views Throughout Historyin the World and Christianity=== Various civilizations have embraced homosexuality and pederasty through recorded history.

===Recent Views While world views regarding homosexuality have and do vary drastically from one location to another, the opinion of homosexuality in Western culture has changed dramatically in the past 50 years, as work in the World fields of psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, biology and sociology have begun to address it more. Until 1976, the DSM-4 noted homosexuality as a philia, a compulsion related only to sexual interaction, but studies by the likes of Kinsey and others pressured its overturning; a political movement for equal rights by gays was occurring simultaneously in many parts of America and Christianity===Europe, and also issued some pressure for the definition of homosexuality to be changed, which it eventually was.

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