God loves everyone.
  • Nothing can separate us from the love of God. (Rom 8:38)  This message is for all people, including LGBTQIA+ individuals.
  • ​God did not make a mistake in creating LGBTQIA+ people. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalm 139:113-14)  Sexual identity and gender identity are components of a person’s personality, and as such are part of who God made each of us to be.

We are called to be inclusive.
  • God welcomes people of all genders and sexual identities.  “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”  (Galatians 3:28)  Also “…God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.”  (Acts 10:28)  Jesus gladly socialized with people that the religious establishment disapproved of. (Matt  9:11)
  • ​The Church needs its LGBTQIA+ members. “The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)
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​All marriages are holy.
  • Love is a gift from God: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23)
  • ​We were made to be in a relationship with God and with each other: "it is bad for man to be alone" (Genesis 2:18)  It would be inconsistent with God’s loving nature to create people who were gay and then condemn them to a life of loneliness.  Heterosexual marriage is presented as an example (rather than a definition) of how God puts people in relationships; in Genesis 2:24: “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”   The clause “that is why” points back to 2:18. 
  • ​God creates community and families, uniting people together: "So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." (Matthew 19:5).  God can and does create unions with all types of people, including LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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