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Matthew Vines, a Harvard-educated gay man claiming to be a Christian has sparked a great deal of controversy in the church community with his incorrect fault analysis on why the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. He has launched a new leadership training conference aimed at teaching Christians how to lead LGBT-friendly churches and communities. In a video announcing the project, Vines says The Reformation Project will "train, connect and empower gay Christians and their allies to reform church teaching on homosexuality from the ground up." Vines gained a wide recognition and stirred controversy last year with his hour-long YouTube video , which has gained over half a million views, where he presented a detailed argument on why he believes the Bible does not condemn gay people. The young Christian also did an exclusive interview with The Christian Post where he detailed how he arrived at his argument, which caused a great deal of discussion and debate in the Christian com...

Does God support monogamous loving homosexual relationship?

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Greg mentioned the article “ 50 'Hand-Picked' Christians Trained To Convince Churches To Re-Interpret Scripture's Gay Boundaries ” on a recent  podcast . Here's an excerpt from the article: Fifty hand-picked Christians were part of a seminal conference last week planned by Matthew Vines, a 23-year-old Christian who believes Scripture allows for monogamous homosexual activity , in an effort to spread the idea in the American church over the next decade. Vines says he has had success in convincing lay members of churches over the last year that monogamous homosexual activity is allowed by Scripture, but is encountering resistance from Scriptural scholars. He is likely to encounter much more, say theologians.... Vines, a gay Christian, delivered a speech in March 2012 in which he argued that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. The hour-long video of that speech has been viewed over 600,000 times on YouTube and has been the subject of debate among pastors ...