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What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe

What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe

POPE Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexuality. He reportedly replied: This (laws around the world criminalising LGBTI people) is not right. Persons with homosexual tendencies are children of God. God loves them. God accompanies them … condemning a person like this is a sin. Criminalising people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progressive leader when it comes to, among other things, gay Catholics. Author GERALD WEST, Senior Professor of Biblical Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal It’s a stance that has drawn the ire of some…
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Africa and the Testament of the Gods

Africa and the Testament of the Gods

VUSI MAVIMBELA IN the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, there is a court dramatisation where defence lawyer Henry Drummond says: “I am trying to establish whether Howard or Brady or Charles Darwin or anybody sitting around this court, or you Sir, has a right to think”. The presiding officer intervenes and says: “Mr Drummond, the right to think is not on trial here”. Drummond retorts: “Well, with all due respect to the court, the right to think is very much on trial here and it is fearfully in danger in the proceedings of this court room…A thinking man is faced…
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