The Bible and Homosexual Practice Quotes

“It is not a kindness for a parent to allow a child to play with a scorpion or touch a hot radiator; nor is it a kindness for the church to give its blessing to forms of sexual expression that, as Paul notes, degrades the body created by God.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“In the name of anti-discrimination those who uphold moral values are discriminated against while those who violate such values receive affirmative action.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“Far from being an unloving act, a sensitive refusal to condone homosexual conduct is the responsible and loving thing to do. The church deceives the homosexual by affirming a lifestyle that God deems to be sin.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“The policy stances that the church must take toward same-sex intercourse do not diminish the believer's call to love the individual homosexual.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“love God and love the homosexual "neighbor.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“Christians should support the decriminalization of homosexual behavior and full prosecution of crimes against homosexuals.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“If we are to believe Scripture, the failure of the church to help the homosexual make the transition out of homosexual practice and into sexual wholeness will make the church an accomplice to the very form of behavior that God finds detestable.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“Scripture rejects homosexual behavior because it is a violation of the gendered existence of male and female ordained by God at creation.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“Despite the limited number of texts in the Bible that speak directly to the question of same-sex intercourse, there is very little likelihood that any writer of Scripture, or Jesus, would have supported homosexual behavior of any sort.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

“If the eternal destiny of unrepentant, practicing homosexuals is at stake, or even a full relationship with God in the present life, then it would be a "cruel abuse of religious power" to give false assurance that these texts do not condemn homosexual behavior.”
― Robert A. J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics