Recently we learned that there was a church that voted to exclude people from their membership because of their sexual orientation. We didn't agree with them but they have religious freedom in Canada so it's their right to do this. But, we thought, "this is probably an isolated incident."
Then we checked our podcast stats and realized that our message from 2017 on Homosexuality is our highest downloaded message... of all times. Strange we thought, I thought sexual orientation isn't an issue anymore in the vast majority of our world.
Then we sent emails to members of Friends Church who are in same-sex relationships and asked if in their experience, "was their sexual orientation an issue in religious groups in their lives?" And the responses came back in heartbreaking detail of hurts and ostracization, and horrible things being said to them in the name of the Christian tradition.
And so we decided we needed to take a few weeks and explore the issue of same-sex relationship through the lens of the Friends Church's conception of the Christian Tradition. Talk about Friends Church's completely open arms to anyone of any sexual orientation in all facets of Friends Church. Show that there are valid interpretations of the Bible that says people who are actively in same-sex relationships are as spiritual and good as people in opposite-sex relationships.
Series ran July 2022
