LGBTQ Christian Resource

Human s*xuality and gender identity have always been highly charged issues in religious traditions. The term "homos*xuality" is a recent innovation in that complex history, which was invented in the late nineteenth century to describe the modern notion of a "s*xual orientation" toward people of the same s*x. This modern conception of human s*xual identity would have been virtually unknown and unre

cognizable to the writers of sacred texts in most of the world's religious traditions, including the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures. Contemporary debates over "homos*xuality" and religion often turn on how to interpret those ancient texts and involve complex cultural and historical factors.