Richard Grenell and homosexual Christian confused claims
But when it comes to homosexuality, Grenell calls for greater “tolerance” in the Republican Party despite the party’s clear and longstanding platform language opposing “rights” and “marriage” based on aberrant sex.
In a Feb. 3 podcast with FOX News reporter Shannon Bream, he said, “I am gay, I am a Christian and I am still a man of faith.”
In the interview, Grenell demonstrates precisely the sort of pro-homosexual advocacy that inspires opposition among Christians who accept the biblical proscription against homosexual behavior.
BORN GAY - NO WAY - ONLY LADY GAGA SAYS SO ALONE
“I know I was born this way,” he emphatically told Bream. (Social conservatives have long dismissed the “born gay” claim, and in recent years socially liberal researchers and even homosexual activists have joined them in saying the theory is simplistic.)
Grenell told Bream that he grew up in a strongly Christian home and went to an Assemblies of God college. He cited his liberating experience attending Harvard graduate school and talking with the late homosexual pastor Peter Gomes. As the professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School, Gomes condemned alleged Christian “homophobia” used his prestigious perch to rebut the religious case against homosexuality.
HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY AS GOOD?
In the same vein, Grenell told Bream that biblical passages that historically have been interpreted as clearly proscribing homosexual practice actually do not mean that. (This is often the argument of any believer who has fallen into grevious sin). The first chapter of the New Testament Book of Romans is one such passage. (Sadly, Romans 1 is very clear and can't be rintereted to mean something else).
Robert Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and academic on the Bible and homosexuality from an orthodox (conservative) Christian perspective, specifically rejects Grenell’s thesis that the Bible does not condemn homosexual relationships.
Grenell told Bream that he grew up in a strongly Christian home and went to an Assemblies of God college. He cited his liberating experience attending Harvard graduate school and talking with the late homosexual pastor Peter Gomes. As the professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School, Gomes condemned alleged Christian “homophobia” used his prestigious perch to rebut the religious case against homosexuality.
HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL PROMOTES HOMOSEXUALITY AS GOOD?
In the same vein, Grenell told Bream that biblical passages that historically have been interpreted as clearly proscribing homosexual practice actually do not mean that. (This is often the argument of any believer who has fallen into grevious sin). The first chapter of the New Testament Book of Romans is one such passage. (Sadly, Romans 1 is very clear and can't be rintereted to mean something else).
“For so many Christians that I grew up with, they were focused on verses in the Bible that talked about homosexuality as a negative thing. And when you go back in and actually look at the original words for these verses, it wasn’t about being homosexual at all. It was about being deviant, or a prostitute,” he said. “And so there was no thought that you were going to be able to have a committed [homosexual] relationship.”
This is the faulty Boswell thesis which has been proven to be completely wrong.
Robert Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and academic on the Bible and homosexuality from an orthodox (conservative) Christian perspective, specifically rejects Grenell’s thesis that the Bible does not condemn homosexual relationships.
IN OTHER WORDS; THE BIBLE CLEARLY CONDEMNS
ALL FORMS OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Grenell said he respects Christians who disagree with him and his interpretation of Scripture. (But this very statement implies ANY interpretation is okay and true. This statement also undermines the authority of scripture.)
Grenell said in the interview with Bream that he is strongly “for religious liberties.”
“I am somebody in the gay community who pushes and takes a lot of heat for trying to get the gay community to understand that we should not be trying to get people to jump up and down and be happy about the fact that we’re gay,” he said. “We should be demanding equal rights, equal protections, and that’s it.”
“I’m not looking for approval of my life from people,” he said. “I’m looking for equality and protections — just like you’re not looking for me to approve every area of your life.”
He should be looking for forgiveness for his grevious sin - and hatred towards a holy God because he has stated God made me this way and God approves of my lifestlye choice - when clearly God has NOT!
Like many libertarians and pro-LGBTQ Republicans, Grenell advances the notion of legal homosexual “marriage” as a conservative issue. In a Washington Times column, he simultaneously extolled individual rights against big government and a Supreme Court ruling — the 2015 Obergefell decision that Trump now says is “settled” law — which imposed homosexual “marriage” on 31 states whose citizens had previously voted to preserve marriage as between man and woman. Writes Grenell:
“Consistent conservatives should frame their views in accordance with the fundamental belief that individuals, not governments, have the right to determine the course of their own lives …
“But when the topic of gay marriage arises, some conservatives have not been consistent. The debate on marriage within the Republican Party has been hijacked by those who wish to dictate their beliefs onto others. Rather than professing consistent, conservative beliefs, some within the party have taken to advocating for a remarkably liberal, totalitarian approach.”
Most pro-family conservatives have warned that the Obergefell ruling — combined with aggressive LGBT lawsuits — has created a “liberal totalitarianism” of sorts that requires all citizens to participate in sin-based “marriages” regardless of their moral and religious beliefs about homosexuality.
