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What Does God Say About LGBTQ+?
This message explores the pride progress flag and movement from a biblical, Christian perspective. It is timely, encouraging, and filled with godly truths and love about what Jesus says, how we should respond, and what this movement means for Christianity in America.
Pastor John brings light to homosexuality, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in this sermon about LGBTQ+ communities and people.
“Love Is Love: What Does The Bible Say About Homosexuality” – https://youtu.be/k52WoXBCesU
October 2, 2022 | Pastor John Hill
What to Read
Research Links:
Homosexuality increases depression, suicide, substance abuse: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Amalgamation of 13,706 papers finds increases in depression, suicide and substance abuse among other psychiatric disorders for people with same sex partners significantly higher than heterosexual: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.c…
Significant increase in STD, HIV/AIDS and psychological morbidity in LGBT people: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/…
Suicide among Homosexual men higher than heterosexual men: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
Attempted suicide rate among LGBT youths 31% mental disorders like serious depression, conduct disorder way higher than heterosexual: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/…
Longitudinal study on LGBT youth found suicide attempts at 31.2%: https://link.springer.com/article/10….
Discrimination does not account for the disparity in mental health between LGBT and Heterosexual people. Journal of LGBT Health Research 2008: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10…
Having a homosexual parent(s) appears to increase the risk of incest or molestation by a parent by a factor of about 50.”: http://search.proquest.com/openview/6…
Modal range of sexual partners for older gay men between 100-500: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10…
Increase in sexual partners increases depression: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/…
Most occurrences of domestic abuse among lesbian women: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content…
Stories of LGBT hate, bigotry and persecution against loving Christians:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/if…
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/courts-con…
https://stream.org/gay-totalitarianis…
40% suicidality among transgender people/Schools teaching gender spectrum to elementary students: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-sh…
Infographic on number of years lost with corresponding addictions (Source not academic): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/art…
Suicidality in Nazi Concentration camps 25%: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…
Kinsley institute article saying 73-88% of children with gender dysphoria will identify as adults by their anatomic gender: https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/…
Life expectancy for gay men is 8-20 years shorter than heterosexual men: https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/…
Discussion Questions
PrintReflect on What You’ve Heard
1. Where in your life are you most tempted to worship false Gods and other religions?
2. Where is Satan beckoning you to bow down?
3. Is there anything God teaches that you that you don’t trust Him with?
4. Where in your life can you tell the devil, ‘get out of here’ because the scriptures say worship the Lord your God alone.
