# Can You Be Gay and Christian? ![rw-book-cover](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41YH%2Buwt-3L._SL200_.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Michael L. Brown]] - Full Title: Can You Be Gay and Christian? - Category: #books ## Highlights - But the existence of bigoted people in the church, be their numbers large or small, proves nothing at all about what the Scriptures actually say. And if we’ll look at the Word honestly, we’ll have to admit that there is no comparison between the promotion of slavery, segregation, the oppression of women, and the rejection of homosexual practice. ([Location 1029](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1029)) - What if I were to use the Scriptures alone to inform my views about other races, about slavery, about women, about homosexuality? What conclusions would I draw? ([Location 1055](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1055)) - Put another way, it is not that we have gained some new insights into what the biblical text means based on the study of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Instead, people’s interaction with the LGBT community has caused them to ([Location 1103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1103)) - We know what the biblical text says about homosexual practice, and it is clearly prohibited in the Scriptures. For Professor Johnson, however, there’s more to the story, and he asks the question, “But what are we to do with what the text says?” ([Location 1109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1109)) - For those wanting an extremely detailed hermeneutical discussion, I would recommend William Webb’s book Slaves, Women and Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis, ([Location 1169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1169)) - Willard Swartley’s Homosexuality: Biblical Interpretation and Moral Discernment. ([Location 1171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00IQY2P14&location=1171))