Finding acceptance of homosexuality in the Bible
Vines
is a Christian, a 22-year-old Harvard undergrad raised in a
conservative evangelical church in Kansas. He is also gay and says he
grew up being taught that the Bible condemns his sexual orientation. He
took two years off from school to research and study whether or not that
assertion is true.
The result is "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality." It's a
video -- you can find it online with a simple Google search [see video
below] -- of a speech he gave in March at a church in Wichita that has
become a minor sensation. Small wonder. Vines' speech is a masterwork of
scriptural exegesis and a marvel of patient logic, slicing and dicing
with surgical precision the claim that homophobia is God ordained.
So effective is the video that after viewing it, Sandra Delemares, a
Christian blogger from the United Kingdom who had, for years, spoken in
staunch opposition to same-sex marriage, wrote that it "revolutionized"
her thinking.
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