Homosexuality and transgender

• What do views on homosexuality mainly depend on?

  How the Bible is interpreted
• When did religion stop being imposed by the state?

  The enlightenment
• What did the Treaty of Augsberg 1555 say?


  Each state should follow the religion of its leader
• What did the protestant reformation promote?

  The idea that each individual has their own relationship with God independent of the Church- the Priesthood of all believers
• Until when did Churches of all denominations regard homosexuality as a sin?

  The end of the 1950s
• When was homosexuality decriminalised?

  1967
• How was homosexuality decriminalised?

  Through the Sexual Offences Act of 1967
• Which is sinful, homosexual tendencies or homosexual acts?


  Homosexual acts
• What should every sexual act lead to?

  The conception of children
• What does Leviticus 18:22 say?


  "Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, that is detestable"
• What does Leviticus 20:13 say?

  "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable."
• What does Leviticus say is the punishment for homosexual acts?

  Death
• What happens to Sodom and Gomorrah?

  They are destroyed
• What is discussed in Sodom and Gomorrah?

  Homosexuality, incest, violence
• What does Ezekiel say about Sodom?


  "Sodom's sins were pride, gluttony and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door"
• What does Corinthians 6:9-10 say?


  "Neither the men who have sex with men will inherit the kingdom of God"
• What is the problem with all translations of homosexuality in the Bible?

  Cannot be sure whether it is referring to prostitution, paedophilia or homosexuality in general
• What does Romans 1:26-28 say?

  "men who committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion"
• How does the chapter after Romans 1 start?

  "you who pass judgement do the same things"
• What are Eunuchs?


  men who had been castrated
• In the Early Church, were Eunuchs allowed to be ordained?


  No
• What happened to Origen?

  He was castrated and had his ordination declared invalid as a resutl
• What do trans people claim God did?


  Create them whole and give them the chance to choose how they want to live their lives
• What is the Gospel of Thomas?

  A non-canonical book that is believed to have been burried
• What does the Gospel of Thomas say about gender change?

  "Every woman who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven"