Shouldn't Christians Allow Homosexuals to Teach and Preach in Church?

Question

If you believe that homosexuality is sin then shouldn't they be able to teach and preach since everybody sins?

And if you believe that they are born that way then why would the church not let them teach and preach?

Answer 1

I don't know!
OH wait! Yes I do NO!
Butt, if you are gay, wanna go out?

Answer 2

No the Christian church should NOT allow homosexuals to teach and preach! Homosexuality is an aberrant life style. To allow teaching and preaching by homosexuals is condoning this abberant life style. Which, can and probably will lead to trouble in the future.

If you question this, look at how quickly some of the events in the Catholic Church have played out in the past 50 years. It was not long ago that the Catholic Church wrestled with homosexuality and the result was to allow gay men to preach and teach. Homosexual men found their way into the Catholic Church in large numbers. Within another decade or two the charges of pedophilia against Priests began surfacing. Some of those charges allege the abuse had been going on for a long time.

It is not all just a coincidence when you lay out a time line. Catholics allowing homosexuals to preach and teach cost the church dearly.

Answer 3

The only people that should be preaching in church are people that are trying their hardest to live their life for God. If you are a homosexual... clearly you are not trying hard enough. It is better to be single until you die than to be with someone of the same sex. All I am saying is that the person who teaches in a church should be a christian role model, and while I know some homosexuals that are christians (they are fighting their temptations daily) I do not think that a practicing homosexual should teach in a church.

However, a reformed homosexual would be an excellent person to teach at a church. The reason for this is because they would be extremely helpful to other people who are having a hard time with their homosexuality.

I also do not think that people who are dealing with adultery or drug use or anything like that should be a teacher or preacher either... No one that is heavy in sin should be a teacher of Christ (sinless) to others...

Answer 4

There is a vast difference between a christian sinning through the weakness of the flesh, confessing that sin to God, and being restored to fellowship, and an unrepentant sodomizer openly living the wicked, deviate, homosexual lifestyle and being able to practice and promote that sin in God's house.

Being a christian is being freed from the power of sin to live unto God, according to His holy word. Homosexuals reject that. Those former Homosexuals that become christians, have renounced homosexuality and accept the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If a person is an open, admitted, and unrepentant homosexual, what do you think they would be preaching and teaching in church? More of the same lewdness and wickedness!! Hence, they would not be allowed to practice in those church positions.

Also, it is God who calls the Pastor. God is not going to call someone to preach his word who by his lifestyle rejects all that the Bible teaches.

Dear Old Dad

Answer 5

Shouldn't Christians Allow Homosexuals to Teach and Preach in Church? Yes

If you believe that homosexuality is a sin shouldn't they be able to preach?Homosexuality is not a sin. Having sex with the same sex is. As is having sex before marriage.

Answer 6

People who preach should be preaching what God says in the bible. According to the bible, a leader should be of a blameless reputation inside and outside the church. According to 1st Corinthians 5 anyone who is a drunk or an extortioner, or a railer or a fornicator (sexually immoral), should be excommunicated from the church gathering until they repent of thier sin. Once they repent they are to be allowed back into fellowship. Those kinds of sins show that the heart has turned away from God and they are walking after their own lusts. In the Jewish old testament, those sins in a society caused the society to suffer judgments such as famine and/or captivity,...again to make them repent. Fornication includes homosexuality, incest and any form of sex outside of marriage. 1 Corinthians does mention people who were once homosexuals who were now christians and Paul tells them that although they were like that in the past, because of their faith in Christ they are now washed and cleansed and sanctified.

Answer 7

I can tell by your question that you are not a Christian. You have no root in the Word of God. If you were your question would be written something like this.

Christians should not allow homosexuals to teach and preach in our churches. The reason for this is that homosexuality is an abomination unto the LORD and being so it is to us Christians as well.

People are not born homosexual. You have been watching too much TV. TV lies big time don't you know that?

Repent and seek after the paths of Jesus Christ.><>

Answer 8

Reversing things a bit...

1. We don't believe that people are "born" homosexuals, anymore than a person is "born" a wife-swapper, or a rapist, or a professional thief. Everybody is born with a sin-nature, and may gravitate towards different temptations, but that does not determine their personality. Temptation is not orientation.

2. You are right when you say "everybody sins". Even the most holy grandmother still struggles with different temptations every day; it is part of life! In the Christian life, though, we do not identify ourselves by our temptation/sins. Someone who identifys themself by their sexual orientation is clearly unrepentent, and unfit to either preach or teach. It is one thing to struggle with temptation; it is entirely another to wallow in it!

Answer 9

Great question. One that the mainline denominations are currently fighting over. Yes, they should be allowed to teach and preach. Excluding gay and lesbian people at this point is cruel and overtly discriminatory.

I agree with you that being homosexual is not a choice. There is too much scientific evidence to support the position that homosexuality is an orientation, usually inherited at birth. For many it is wired into their genetic code (see Dean Hamer's research) and for others it happens in utero because of too little testosterone during early stage brain development (See also Albert Kinsey's studies on human sexuality which states that very few people are completely homosexual or heterosexual which would be consistent with Hamer's genetic research).

Additionally, the Biblical prohibitions against homosexuality are far too suspect to be excluding anyone. If a person looks to Leviticus for an exclusive stance against homosexuality, then they would have to take as equally an exclusive stance against those who have sex with their wives while they are menstruating, those who wear clothes woven out of two or more different kind of fabrics, and those who do not stone to death obstinate children. The issue is consistency here. We cannot claim that some parts of the Levitical code are still applicable while others are not. There is too much arbitrariness involved there.

In the N.T., the words which are commonly translated as 'homosexual' are terribly difficult to render into English. In fact, no one is quite sure what one of the words means. 'Arsenokoitai' is a difficult Greek word since it only appears in lists both in the Bible and in extra Biblical literature from the same period. There is no context from which to extract appropriate meaning. It seems clear that there are masculine sexual connotations to the word, but it is difficult to pull much more meaning out of it. The word could mean anything from 'a male temple prostitute, a male rapist, or the male partner in male to male sexual relations.' We cannot be certain that the word includes men who engage in consensual, loving, mutually beneficial relationships. Thus, to lump these kinds of homosexual men in with 'male rapists and prostitutes' is unfair and unwarranted.

The second term, 'malakoi' certainly does not mean homosexual. It most likely means 'effeminate male.' Again, this does not translate well into our own culture. In the first century, a man would be deemed effeminate if he cried in public, spoke with a woman in public, did the house work, etc.

Excluding homosexual persons due to two words of which we are uncertain of meaning is rather harsh, I think. The prohibitions against accumulating great wealth certainly has more primacy in Scripture than the supposed prohibitions against homosexuality, yet how many churches prohibit wealthy church members who are unrepentant of their wealth to teach and preach. It is hypocracy at the highest level. Great question, and sorry for the long post. I hope it was helpful.

Answer 10

That depends - are they someone who previously chose a homosexual lifestyle, and now choose differently because God has changed their life - or, are they standing in a church using a Bible that says homosexuality is wrong to try to teach people that homosexuality is right?

Everyone should be free to choose their own lifestyle, but continuing to deliberately live a lifestyle against what the Bible teaches is not congruent with truly being a Believer.

Answer 11

No, just like they shouldn't allow fornicators or adulterers or liars or theives or drunkards or slanderers or gossips or people who can't control their anger or people who are inhospitable or any other person who doesn't live up to the standards given in the Bible for preachers and teachers.

1 Timothy 3:1 Faithful is this word: If anyone aspires to the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. 2 It is necessary, therefore, for a bishop to be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful at teaching; 3 not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money; 4 one ruling his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence; 5 (for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same judgment as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 8 Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not greedy for money, 9 holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. 10 But let these also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons, being irreproachable. 11 Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. 12 Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children well, and their own houses.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor covetous, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor abusive people, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.