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05-18-2005, 07:09 AM
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BGLT persons and the religious community
How does your religious community repsond to an openly BGLT person who visits or wants to join your group? Do you accept them and love them they way they are? Try to change them before you let them join? Or turn them away completely unless they change? Do you think that a BGLT person would feel welcome in your religious community? Do you agree with how your religious community responds to and treats BGLT people? If not, what would you change?
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05-18-2005, 07:12 AM
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What is BGLT?
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05-18-2005, 07:16 AM
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05-18-2005, 07:17 AM
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Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender: BGLT is faster than writing all that, or "non-heterosexual" out every time.
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05-18-2005, 07:43 AM
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Since I left home I don't really have a religious community anymore so I can only say what I personally believe and how other communities I have been in have acted.
Myself, While I accept that some people are naturally gay and I know longer consider being so a sin, I am a little uncomfortable around them. That may seem insensitive, but you have to understand that I am just now getting over years of church and peer induced homophobia. Really if it wasn't for support from my parents and my bible scholar I would still feel outright hate towards the gay community. As for other communities, I would say that the most recent church I have been to (I won't name any names) needs much improvement. I was recently talking to a friend who stated that BGLT's could not be serious christian's, that they were going to hell for it, and that the church they belonged to must have been extremely corrupt. Though I am not gay myself, it doesn't take much to assume that this attitude is downright abhorrent and even a little frightening for BGLT's looking for a strong religious community. This particular statement affected me even more so since I had shared the same beliefs not long ago. Well, with any luck this little rant answered at least some of the questions you were putting forward.
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05-18-2005, 08:00 AM
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while there is a prohibition against homosexuality in Judaism, especially in an Orthodox Community like the one i'm involved in, this does not mean they wouldn't be accepted or that their children couldn't attend the local day schools or yeshivas...actually the Rebbe at RTA (the jewish elementary private school) was asked this exact question...if 2 jewish men who were gay came into the community and they had a child they were raising would he allow the child to enroll at RTA? He just blinked and said...why wouldn't i let the child enroll?!
 I wouldn't be involved in a community that wouldn't at least be open and friendly to my sister
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05-18-2005, 08:16 AM
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My Buddhist sangha welcomes all, as all people are equal in Buddhism. We currently have some gay associates, and one member is transgendered.
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell Namaste, Engyo
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05-18-2005, 08:33 AM
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On a serious note, Jewish Humanist Congregations welcome them.
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05-18-2005, 08:35 AM
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All people are equal in my opinion, whatever choices you make. Love is love, who cares what form it takes and anyone that condemns real love for any reason has serious problems. I am not gay, but I have a relative that is and a friend of mine is, too (he's a buddhist, too, coincidently). They are both great people and I would gladly defend them through and through.
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05-18-2005, 08:39 AM
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