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		<title>True of False: &#8220;Jesus affirmed a gay couple&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[I came across a very interesting article on the Indianapolis Star, the newspaper from my hometown. It appears that a national gay advocacy group, Faith in America, leased space on 22 billboards around Indianapolis last week to spread messages like &#8220;Jesus affirmed a gay couple&#8221; and &#8220;Jesus said some people are born gay.&#8221; Unfortunately, this [&#8230;]]]></description>
					<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://revtucher.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/27/gay_billboard_2.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://revtucher.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/gay-billboard.jpg" alt="gay-billboard.jpg" align="left" height="150" width="200" /></a> I came across a very interesting <a href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070424/LOCAL/70424047/-1/NLETTER07">article</a> on the <a href="http://www.indystar.com">Indianapolis Star</a>, the newspaper from my hometown.  It appears that a national gay advocacy group, Faith in America, leased space on 22 billboards around Indianapolis last week to spread messages like <em>&#8220;Jesus affirmed a gay couple&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;Jesus said some people are born gay.&#8221;  </em>Unfortunately, this is a true story, there is no making this stuff up.</p>
<p>If you look at the picture, you see Matthew 8:5-13 quoted as the place where Jesus affirmed a gay couple.  Below you can read exactly what Matthew 8:5-13 says.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:1.2em;">The Faith of a Centurion</span></p>
<p class="esv-text"><span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">5</span> </span>When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">6</span> </span>“Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">7</span> </span>And he said to him, <span class="woc">“I will come and heal him.”</span> <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">8</span> </span>But<br />
the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my<br />
roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">9</span> </span>For<br />
I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to<br />
one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my<br />
servant,<span class="footnote"> </span> ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">10</span> </span>When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, <span class="woc">“Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel<span class="footnote"> <a href="http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=matthew+8%3A5-13&amp;sourceid=mozilla-search#f2" id="b2" title="Some manuscripts 'not even in Israel'"> </a></span>have I found such faith.</span> <span class="verse-num-woc"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">11</span> </span><span class="woc">I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,</span> <span class="verse-num-woc"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">12</span> </span><span class="woc">while<br />
the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that<br />
place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”</span> <span class="verse-num"><span style="font-size:0.6em;">13</span> </span>And to the centurion Jesus said, <span class="woc">“Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.”</span> And the servant was healed at that very moment.</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m missing something here, but I don&#8217;t see anywhere in the text that says Jesus affirmed a gay couple.  I don&#8217;t even see anywhere in the text where it says what the sexual orientation of the centurion or his servants is.  It sounds like the Jesus Metropolitan Community Church, the sponsors of the billboard campaign, is trying to take Scripture and twist it into what it wants Scripture to say.</p>
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