#Singapore #gay priest argues against anti-gay Christian rhetoric: #LGBTQI

priest counters anti-gay 'looming threat' comment

#Singapore #gay priest argues against anti-gay Christian rhetoric: #LGBTQI

Rev Miak Siew from the inclusive Free Community Church in Singapore has responded to 'megachurch' pastor Lawrence Khong's comments that attempts to repeal an anti-gay law is a 'looming threat' . Rev Siew wrote a piece for LGBT Asia website Fridae arguing that the bible doesn't value the 'traditional family' above all else. 'The idea that "the family unit comprises of a man as Father, a woman as Mother, and Children" is not biblical,' wrote Rev Siew. 'In the Gospels, when Jesus was told that his mother and his brothers wanted to see him, Jesus refused to identify with his traditional family and instead shared a new vision how what family means in the kin-dom of God. He said, "Whosoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."... 'In our context, how we shout loudly "We Are Family," is actually closer to Jesus' idea of family than Pastor Khong's i...

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priest counters anti-gay 'looming threat' comment

#Singapore #gay priest argues against anti-gay Christian rhetoric: #LGBTQI

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