Rainbow Heart Not A Sin enamel pin

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Rainbow Heart ‘NOT A SIN’ enamel pin for gay Christians and allies.

Same-sex, loving, monogamous relationships are not a sin!  Here’s why…

There are six biblical passages referring to same-sex behavior.  Three are in the Old Testament—Genesis 19:1-13; Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13—and three are in the New Testament—Romans 1:26-32; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:10.

Doubtless, all six passages of Scripture depict negative views of males having sex with males, but these verses cannot be used as blanket condemnations of all forms of homosexuality, and in particular, long-term, monogamous relationships between equal-status partners.

It is vital to understand what those referred to by the passages as engaging in same-sex behavior were doing and under what circumstances. Awareness of that context informs our application of the texts to modern-day questions of moral and sexual ethics.

In 1946, the creators of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible were the first to put the word homosexual in the Bible.
They combined and translated two Greek words associated with abusive forms of same-sex behavior as “homosexual”, thus altering the intended issue of sexual abusers driven by lust, excess, and rape to condemn a minority group of naturally same-sex attracted people.