Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Can LGBTQ+ and Christians See Eye To Eye? | Middle Ground" video.
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Because human nature is ugly, the history of religion is also ugly. Example: From the book, Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven … Uta Ranke-Heinemann
In his sermons against unchastity that he gave at the French court John Gerson (d. 1429) even invoked a decree of the Christian Emperor Vanentinian from the year 390 that punished homosexuality with burning at the stake (Codex Theodosianus 9, 7, 6). Gerson equates every action that thwarts the fertility of marital sex with homosexuality. He attacks the “inventive indecencies of sinners” in marriage. Such deeds “often deserve death my fire, and are worse than if they had been committed with women who were not the sinners’ wives. May a person have intercourse at all, if he prevents the fruit of marriage from being conceived? I say that such is often a sin that deserves the flames … Every imaginable conduct that hinders the union of a man and woman from producing issue must be condemned”(Sermon against Unchastity, 2nd Sunday in Advent, Works, vol. III, 916).
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