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Perhaps the most used passage in the New Testament to abuse the LGBTQIA2S+ community, Pauls writing in Romans 1:18-2:4 is what is called a clobber passage. Paul only addresses sexual intercourse between people of the same sex with no sense of our current fuller understanding and experience of same sex relationships. Ironically a section of scripture intended to help us take a look at ourselves is used to judge others.

Genesis is used to argue for a natural order yet that natural order has resulted in the subjugation of women, justified slavery, led to the abuse of children and our horrible treatment of the environment. We no longer say that sex is for procreation only. In fact sex is for pleasure most of the time. In the two creation stories we find one form of relationship but that does not exclude all others. Genesis 1:26-28 Genesis 2:18-24