Essay on Homosexuality and the Anglican Church

The way people ultimately view homosexuality, whether in religion, politics or modern popular culture, is all determined by traditional or changing points of view. This essay will discuss mainly liberal and conservative Christian interpretations of the Bible, including many verses that may support or condemn homosexuality. It will also discuss the political views and laws against same-sex marriage and the social activism in the homosexual community. This is all about view points and it has many conflicting views and arguments.

In today’s Christian churches there has come about a very controversial subject, one that has been developing for many years, and is now at the fore front of controversial issues dealing with the church. The issue at hand is homosexuality and the Christian church. This controversy has caused there to be a split between the church into two different beliefs, liberal and evangelical, which one is right and which and which one is wrong? Issues such as should homosexuals be aloud in the church? If so how involved should they be? And most importantly what does God have to say about homosexuality? These are tough question brought about by a tough issue and the only way these questions can be

Homosexuality is one of the most debated issues among Christians today, regardless of the denomination of their church. Some churches view homosexuality as a sin and have no tolerance for it, while other denominations are more accepting and consider it a non-sin. Even though some denominations have taken a stand on homosexuality, there seems to much discord within the governing bodies of the churches regarding this issue. It has moved from a topic rarely discussed and considered very personal and private, to a mainstream topic of conversation.

The topic of homosexuality in religion has many sides. There are those who believe that it is a sin in God’s eyes and according to the Bible, and there are those who believe the God and the Bible are not specific to homosexuals. It is a tough debate based on whether you are a religious person, how you were raised, and where your morals and ethics stand. You cannot truly believe one way without taking into account the other side and have valid proof to back it up.

The early American colonies were founded and settled by Great Britain. Accordingly, Church of England was the state sponsored religion in this area. Most individuals identified themselves at Protestants and most of the settlers considered themselves church members. Even with these facts the Anglican Church struggled to keep its base in the colonies and to move into newly settled areas. This happened because of the church leadership, several church practices, and the topography of the colonies.

Since the very first colony was founded in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, religion played a very important role in America. Nine of the thirteen colonies had established churches. Having an established church meant you paid taxes for the support of that church whether or not you were a member. The colonies with official state or established churches of the Congregational (Puritan) church denomination consisted of Maine, Connecticut, and Vermont. Colonies that remained a part of the original Church of the England were Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and New York.

Actually, Africans contributed to the construction of the first church in Jamestown, Virginia in 1647 among many other people. Africans were treated better before the first African slaves arrived in 1619. African slaves could marry through their church, they could practice the settler’s religion during earlier years of the sixteen hundred. However, the African slaves were limited after servitude was becoming the social norms of society. Despite the restrictions African slaves faced on a daily basis, slaves were able to continue to practice their religious beliefs from their place of origin. Furthermore, African American were able to adapt parts of the Christian faith with their own personal practice of religion that was also contributed to their political stance of slavery overall.

During the settlement of the Americas, African slaves were brought to the colonies, unbeknownst to the Christian religion. Whether it was a Catholic or an Anglican church, parishes found themselves “flooded with human beings held in bondage and ignorant of the doctrines of Christianity.” Slaveholders and the churches had to find a way to organize the African slaves and convert them to understand the religion

Leithart begins this book by talking about the controversy surrounding the church in the 4th century. Athanasius, a young man brought up in a pagan household, was taught to fear the Lord from a man named Alexander from a young age. Athanasius’ main opponent during his lifetime was to discount Arianism, a heresy that tried to propose the “subordination of the Son to the Father,” a view that outright “denied the eternal generation of the Son,” making Jesus less than God. The Arians believed that “the Father exists prior to the Son, since the Son is not eternal, that is, not timelessly self-subsistent” to the Father. This is to say that the Father does not eternally generate the Son, but instead came into being at a certain point in history, a blatant heresy that was corrected by Athanasius and the Church council in the 4th century.

Recently, the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church have been in a lengthy and complex disagreement regarding the role of the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual members of the church body and to what lengths the church should go in order to “accept” all the different sexual orientations within its congregation. The Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church have completely disagreed on the Communions core doctrine during this debate and have not come even close to creating a resolution. Disciplinary actions have been taken toward the Episcopal Church by the Anglican Communion in hopes for a withdrawal, but the Episcopalians have promised to stand firm on their very and beliefs for equality for all sexual orientations. Due to the recent conflicts between the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church must disband from the Anglican Communion in the near future in order to maintain on the path of its calling of loving and supporting the lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual members.

Homosexuality has grown considerably in recent years, and everyone knows or has heard of someone who is homosexual. The growth of this sexual orientation has brought questions to the Catholic Church on how they should explain this orientation, if it is morally against the natural orientation that God created. Homosexuality is the attraction between two people of the same sex or gender. God created humans male and female and said, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it,” so how can homosexuality exist if they cannot procreate, which is the final goal of a conjugal relationship? This paper will go over the Catholic Church’s perspective on homosexuality: how it is morally incorrect, why it exists, and how these people can

Do you want your homosexual to be destined to go to Hell? Are you afraid that your child will infect the other heterosexuals with his or her gayness? As the head leader of a program called “Pray Away the Gays”, I can guarantee your child will understand how to change from a homosexual to a heterosexual. It is known that in one unit, one out of two kids will be homosexual. In addition, in this world today, less than half of the population is known to be a heterosexual citizen. If you join this program, we will go through the processes to make your child revert back to what the Lord desires – a normal human being.

“All men are created equal, No matter how hard you try, you can never erase those words,” Harvey Milk. A homosexual, as defined by the dictionary, is someone of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex. Homosexuality is ethical, and I will provide rational arguments for, and irrational arguments against the topic. A few objections are as follows: It is forbidden in the Bible and frowned upon by God; It is unnatural; Men and women are needed to reproduce; There are no known examples in nature; and the most common argument that concerns homosexuality is whether it is a choice or human biology.

Opposition to gay marriage has increased since the summer and a narrow majority of Americans also oppose allowing gays and lesbians to enter legal agreements that fall short of marriage. Moreover, despite the overall rise in tolerance toward gays since the 1980s, many Americans remain highly critical of homosexuals ­ and religious belief is a major factor in these attitudes.

Every dilemma we encounter can test our ethics. Ethics are said to be a set of values or group of moral principles that are right and good as well as a code or principles of behaviour or conduct governing an individual or group. It is important for us as humans to comprehend the fact that ethical answers are not black and white as it doesn’t always shows the right answer to moral issues, for example, homosexuality. The homosexuality debate has been ongoing for the past 30 years in New Zealand, and although legalising sexual intercourse between members of the same sex in 1986, discrimination still occurs in today’s 21st century. Oxford Dictionary defines homosexuality as “a condition of personal identity in which a person is sexually orientated towards persons of the same sex.” The Christian Bible has never stated the word “homosexuality” nor defined such an act, but based on modern ideology, the deed of a man having any intimate relations with another man have been taken to consideration as homosexuality. Within the teachings of the Christian tradition, homosexuality has two very distinct viewpoints held in the Old Testament and the New Testament, which are further enforced through those given by Pope Francis I and the New Zealand State Government who provide insight based on the fact the New Zealand is not a Christian nation; however, it is the most practised religion in the country.