Is Being Gay A Sin? 

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I just came out as a lesbian to my family; and it went horribly, causing me to doubt myself and honestly really send me down a spiral of depression- I really needed this. Thank you.

my young women's book says “homosexual and lesbian behavior is a serious sin”. its painful. i remember reading that sentence for the first time and bursting into tears.

Ah this is going into the playlist "show grandma"

I started to question my sexuality when i was starting high school, like i felt a little crush on my 'Straight' Girl bestfriends and i was scared for admitting because growing up i believed that being a part of LGBTQ+ was a sin, So i forced myself to change which i did, i had a boyfriend and all but we broke up. Recently during quarantine i was talking to one of my closest girl besties and she admitted that she has a crush on me, Ive experience a lot of confession from straight guys but hearing it from a girl and surprisingly was also my bestfriend just hits different, I felt happy but the fear i felt when i started having a little crush on girls Strucked me again, I wanted to tell her 'I like you too' but i held my feelings because i was scared....Until now I'm still closeted and no plans on telling my parents because i came from a really religious family and i was terrified by just thinking that they might disown or won't accept me, I didn't want to be bisexual...I keep telling myself 'Gurl you straight' it hurts me denying who i truly am because I don't want to be hated...When i was really confused about my sexuality i cried i wanted to slap myself and snap out of it but never worked, I'm a Christian and i believe in God.

I remember when I told my siblings I was bi, they asked me What bisexual meant and they assumed I was a lesbian (I’m not). Told them the meaning of what bisexual meant and my brother, (who’s extremely homophobic) told me it was a sin and next thing you know in the evening, my behind got caught since I came out to some of my friends in February since I was questioning in December, but my mom and siblings were not very accepting. My mom told me the story of sodom and Gomorrah and told me being gay was a sin and that were Africans we don’t date women. I love both men and women equally and she even told me to change “sexual into men”. For 2 weeks, I was forced to read the Bible, so “God can forgive me for my sins” From the start, I always loved people for who they are, no matter what and I always saw this as wrong. My mom says that it’s an abomination to be gay, AND IT NOT! But I do not believe in ANY of that nonsense they say. I read the Bible and the Story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the story was about rape, not homosexuality to those who don’t know. Which actually relieved me and it changed me entirely, cause I was scared to actually learn about the story of sodom and Gomorrah cause the way my mom put it. They basically told me in the 7th grade (Going to 8th) that loving someone of the same sex or gender was a sin. But I didn’t listen! :) Im still bi The only thing it did to me for 2 weeks and went from 4 months was, me being scared or nervous when someone said the word Gay. What it did to me for two weeks was crying, no laughter or happiness in me at all and lastly, going into depression, and my mom telling me “That’s not who I am”. I couldn’t recover nor forgive my siblings for what they did, but things got a lil better afterwards. Im happy again and accepting myself as this almost 13 year old bisexual. I already told one of my irl friends back I was bi and he accepts me!! :D which made me more happy. ✨💖 To everyone out there who needs this, I Accept you, I love you, I appreciate you, God loves you, Jesus loves you, so does my friend. Being gay is NOT and I repeat NOT a sin. God loves you no matter what he wants me to let you know that he always loves you, and he’s going to accept you into his kingdom. Your not a disgrace to your family, nor me, or anybody else. Jesus died for all of us even you! The people who are homophobes ARE the ones going to hell, cause they call themselves Christians and their the ones damaging this earth, NOT GAY PEOPLE! The Bible should be used to tell love, truth, acceptance and power. Not to teach ignorance and hate. You all are god’s children in my eyes, he loves you, even if you are LGBTQIAP+ ! Your never too young to know your gender, sexuality, or identity! It can even happened when your 5 or 12 it, doesn’t matter! We love you just the way you are and nobody has the right to change you and the way you feel toward others. You have EVERY right to wear want you want, clothing has no gender. You have EVERY right to not tell others, until your ready, there’s always gonna be time. I love you are just the way you are and that’s a promise to all of y’all. :D ✨💖✨💖💖✨✨

I have told my mom that I’m bi at 12. It’s obvious that she doesn’t want my siblings to know and its so stressful. She said she will love me no matter what but isn’t showing it.

It’s obviously prejudice. Tons of people think that being gay is bad and that they will go to hell. That’s not true. You can’t choose your race, hair color, skin tone, etc... and that’s the same thing with sexual orientation.

My family is a Christian family and I’m 15. I started to notice that I’m more interested in boys than girls. I’m scared to tell my parents, and ever since I started having interest in boys, I’ve been sad, numb ever since. I started having trouble at studies, and I can’t get along with other boys, i prayed to god for my happiness so many times but things just kept getting worse. I started losing friends and getting depressed. Now I just think god hates me and I don’t belong anywhere. No one gives a damn about me. Every night I would stay up til 0, 1 am crying because I haven’t had a true friend since I started having interest in boys. Is it just that god hates me? I’m so confused with life and I can’t take this anymore. My head hurts everyday. I want to end this now.

I wanna show this to my dad but I’m afraid he’ll beat me...

As a trans lesbian christian, it grieves me greatly how much damage that change to the bible has inflicted, both to myself, and thousands upon thousands of others around the world over the decades.

The original Bible wasn't properly translated in general

I'm bisexual and Christian and a very fateful man I'm in a very strong relationship with jesus christ I believe in God and that jesus died on the cross for our sins and I believe the bible is the word of God and read the bible and go to church and pray I'm not gonna change my sexuality just because Christianity thinks its wrong because its not I'm made this way in God's image and I know that God and jesus love me Gods not gonna change the way I'm he made me he wouldn't have made me this way if he didn't love me and he does which is why he made me different because he loves me and I hope one day to get married to either a man or woman it doesn't matter which one because I'm gonna be happy either way and one day hopefully me and my hausband or wife will go heaven and see God and jesus

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!!! i’ve been hearing so much lately that it’s a sin to be gay. as a Christian lesbian, that HURTS. more than i can say. so thank you. thank you sooo much.

I don't know but I might have made a comment saying I would come out soon! So here I am :D My parents supported me and here is how it went *We were home from church I was really scared but I knew it was the right day so I walked into my mom's room and shut the door. Next thing you know it I was like "Mom? There is 2 things i need to tell you, 1 thing to ask and one thing to tell. So I shut the door and said "Do you support Riley (My friend) being Bisexual? Turned out she supported it and she said "Yeah, (More stuff I can't remember) Why?" And I said "Because I think I am" I was trembling and shaking but I felt like I had a large heavy weight lifted off of my shoulders.. To this day I am still proud 💖💜💙 👌

I showed my Homophobic/Cristian parents this video, it helped them be more accepting. Thank you!

This relieved me my cousin is gay, and she is like a sister to me, we have a deep bond, and I wouldn’t let anything happen to her, I’m so happy that it’s not true and my cousin is safe. Thank you, Also I’m bisexual

Hello ,I am a Christian and this video helped me shed light on why I never understood how the belief that I believe in has many things that made it hard to support the LGBTQ+ community. This used to make me question my beliefs entirely because I didn’t want to give up on some aspects of my belief . But this showed me that the original Bible was just swept under the rug. Thanks and I made a report so I can share what I have learned to others who are in the dark.

I get so sad when I see Christians walling off lgbtq members... it's like they are choosing to ignore the foundational message of the faith: truly LOVE everyone! They sound disingenuous. I am so impressed to see how kind you all are in retaliation to that. Showing them understanding and respect back is how you prove your maturity. Don't return hate for hate! This is so much better to see than a group who hates Christians... Most of all guys, wanted to say: don't let other people determine your relationship with God. There is no one that has the right to keep you from Him, no matter who you are. He loves you just as much as any straight person, that's for sure.

People saying the LGBTQ going to hell and it scares me :( People are so toxic I just want to have a love life. All the negativity lately has me wanting to be straight but I can't force myself I just can't ! The toxicity people have said has brought me several traumas and I don't want to go to hell for loving my same gender. This video just changed everything. Thank you:(♡ I love Jesus with all my heart 🥺❤

Keep your heads high for your crown *places crown* you are amazing with any gender, sexuality or even no gender! You shouldn’t be ashamed of who you are so remember these words. Always follow your heart, never let people pull you away from anything you are amazing and should never be told your not do not listen to what homophobes tell you, don’t commit suicide just ignore what the world says about you that you don’t like you should love yourself no matter what! Don’t let anyone bring you down!!

How to send to my homophobic mom without sending it to her

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST LINKS OR SOME PROOF. I actually want to come out to my conservative christian mom

Okay I'm a Christian and bisexual and actually looks deeper into this before and so no I don't think that it is a sin to be gay

I’m not gay but, I’m bisexual. I’m in the beginning of a relationship with another man and it feels right to be with him

I didn't know this, keep going! 💖

my dad's homophobic I'm scared to tell him im bi. I'm scared my dad will disown me as his son so I'm never confident to tell him I've been hiding this for years and still I can't gain the confidence to tell anyone but this vid is helping🙁

I sooooooooooo want to send this to my whole family after I come out just to call them out on their bs. . .but I can’t. Not yet

Jesus loves everyone regardless of species, race, seuxality, etc

When I first saw a sentence that being gay in the bible was a sin I started to cry in bed almost for 30 minutes... Also, Whenever I saw that message over and over again I become more and even more heartbroken and shed a few tears..until I remembered that this is how God created me and that I know he loves me for who I am and that message was a sign that made my heart grow and that other peoples religion don't define who I am. 💖💖💖💖💖💖😭🏳‍🌈

Not lying, I used to hate myself for being lesbian, I tried forcing myself to be straight but I just can't change. No one knows that I'm lesbian and no one probably will, I don't want to tell anyone, even my parents. Why am I even saying this. I must sound like an attention seeker..

I believe in God and Jesus. I go to church, and pray to God and love him. If God hates LGBTQ people, then why did he make them..? God loves everyone, he loves you if you’re in the LGBTQ community. No, it’s not a sin. God loves you, he doesn’t hate you. Be gay Be asexual Be demisexual Be bisexual Be lesbian BE PRIDEFUL AND SHOW YOUR SPOT!~ God loves you. And he always will. I’m bisexual and demisexual and I believe and love God. ❤️ 💜 💙 💖

When I heard him say hat saying LGBTQ is is a sin is not a sin I started laughing. Like yasssss! I'm bi.

As someone whos straight, my opinion on being this is that..being gay isn't a sin, it's not wrong, they just have different interest and people need to accept that, it's okay to be gay, lesbian, pan, bi, non-binary, and etc. what ever makes you happy. (not maps)

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Why I no longer am in a religion nor plan to use the Bible despite believing in God n Jesus. I'm more of a spiritual person anyways.

I’m disappointed in how many people disliked this video

All though I understand (but don’t believe in) the “being gay is a sin” thing, I do NOT understand “being gay is going to send you to hell.” I’m pretty sure the only sin that can only TRULY send you to hell, is not believing.

thanks! I didn't know if you were gonna include Hinduism, my grandma is Hindu, so this will hopefully help me when/if I come out to her.

Thank you for posting these - you are so good at making things clear. I've watched a few of your posts already and look forward to more.

Hey this was very helpful! I was wondering if you could make a video on what Christianity says about transgender? I’ve been struggling with my identity and I want to know the truth

We need to spread the word about being gay not being a sin in Christianity (and it's sources) to the people that really need to hear it, tough any means necessary. We need to end the unnecessary battle for our rights (despite me not being in the LGBTQ)

Thank you so much for this video I am a Christian and I thought it was a sin to be homosexual. I recently started feeling on the spectrum of bi. 2 days ago I finally realized that yeah I am. This video is really reassuring and makes me proud to be part of LGBT!

I a Christian, hate when people discriminate LGBTQ+ members. it really gets on my nerves, its like making fun of someone for their religion or race. Its really rude

I have liked Boys every sense i was a Kid" i do not see how it can be a Sin I love Jesus Christ but for all the people out thire who judges Gays needs to stop when it is Natural.

I'm gay and proud but i also love Jesus

This makes so much sense bc there are so many passages saying to love one another that it makes no sense that being hateful was ok. Turns out it’s not even a sin.

This is a wonderful, educational video, thank you so much for sharing

Thank you so much 😊 I had a friend you kept coming at me for being bi telling me it was a sin and he is my bf best friend I got really scared thank you so much❤️🥺

Thank you for this 💕

also in islam it's a Sin to say a thing is a sin it's a right only given to god so saying that being gay is a sin is actually a sin. there is no explicit text that say that being gay is a sin

For God said he wants you to come to him the way you are

Dare I send this to my homophobic and transphobic parents?

Even if LGBTQ+ is a sin I don’t care. People try and pressure their religion on us, (I know not all Christinas do this). I’m proud to be transgender lesbian and asexual. I’m proud to have three friends, one who is bisexual and genderfluid and was born female, another who is non binary and pansexual and was born intersex and the other one who is transgender and gay who was born female. They are all valid and their human too ❤️✨

I came straight for the comments 😃🍿🍿🍿

People in roblox were being rude and homeaphobic to gay people And they were saying they were sinners I stared to get worried beacuse I was bisexual and kinda doubting myself

No it's not a sin.

Thank you so much for opening my eyes and broadening my knowledge!! I’m catholic and gay still in open-closeted situation type of thing 😅 I hope everything will be alright though.. Sending lots of love and may God bless you!

I'm heterosexual but I didn't like the discrimination in the church so I was worried it was a repulsive, homophobic, discriminatory book. I thought that this couldn't be right and that this is horrible for such a supposedly loving religion. I thought maybe it was interpretations over time were adapting to the current mindset, and not be arrogant but I'm happy I'm right.

Thank you so much for making this video! I didn’t know some of this so this was very helpful❤ Happy pride month!

I am bisexual Muslim and gotta say for yall. Plz brother and sister don't listen to the shaitan

Im a men with a long hair. And I'm gay. And I proud to be gay. Gosh, you make me cry, very good.

B..but I’m gay but I love god and don’t want to go to hell I don’t know what to do 😭

I love this video… Thank you so much

Im not gay but I and my parents were talking about this they don't think gay is a sin but my sister thought the bible was wrong about gay peepole because God loves everyone

Thank you for making this video! I was looking for sources from which I could learn more about this topic and you really helped me!! Gotta show this to my homophobic class, wish me luck :))

Thank you so much, I'm Christian and have been accused of being a sinner all because I am gay.

Thank you for making this video, I'm a Christian. Ever since I find out about gay peoples, I searched up in online and find out about some sexualitys and what there mean and I ask myself. What is my sexuality and I never get my answered until I start have a bit of feelings with girls and boys and I ask myself, am I bisexual or pansexual and I keep asking myself but I'm still figuring it out and since my family is Christian. My mom doesn't support LGBT and while my brother is kinda don't accept for transgender and me just pray for everyone to accept to who their a. Once again thank you for making this video! I'm still not ready to come out to my family yet. (sorry my first language isn't English)

I’m assuming you can provide the original texts from the scripture to help validate your argument. I mean if the Bible was incorrectly translated I would like to know what the original text says and based and your confidence I’m assuming you know what the original text states.

"An older man is not to lay with a much younger boy" Yeah totally surprising how this of all things ended up mistranslated.

Tysm💖

Okay so there are a few problems with this video imo. First of all, you didn't specifically address verses in the bible which seem to state that it is a sin, such as 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and the infamous Leviticus 20:13 from the Old Law. Secondly, you failed to show us an analysis of the language used in the original text, and just left us to take your word for it that there was a miss-translation somewhere in the bible. I personally am not a christian nor am I straight, so naturally I see nothing wrong with homosexuality, but I have to call out a poor analysis when I see one.

This made me feel so much better about myself... Thank you for everything... 💜

The translation of the bible screwed us a lot

The entire thing you talked about regarding Christianity, I just want to say, THANK YOU! No matter how often I've tried to explain to my relatives who are Christians, they refuse to listen to the FACT that being LGBT+ has NEVER BEEN A SIN and that it was merely a TRANSLATION ERROR from the ORIGINAL TEXT.

I just love them as human beings and we are not to judge for we shall go to judgment alone

Bro just make lgbtq a religion, then any government homophobia is a direct infringement of the first amendment

Thanks for telling me this I really wanted to die because I’m attracted to both genders and I figured that people would bash me for who I love I truly love god and believen him I hate when people say how are u bisexual and your a christan or just makes me question myself 🥺 but I love who I love

Ty so much

I thank you for releasing this video! I knew something wasn’t right with the Bible! I don’t know what to believe in the Bible anymore... I’m a Christian and I don’t hate LGBT people and I’m also a LGBT person. I’m bi... so yea... wtf is wrong with our world!

I am watching a lot of videos for ways to dispute homophobia before I come out. These are very good topics and references. Thank you

I want to show this to my family so bad, but i know they wont believe or even listen- And if i even try im gonna get kicked out- T -T

Please add timestamps for each religion.

I’m bi, I came out to my Christian friend as lesbian ( what I first thought I was ). She was fine with it, accepting. Then the day after she said she actually said she didn’t support it which hurt me a lot. It made me think like what did I do? Considering the fact we had a crush on each other in elementary, she said she used to be bi but likes men more so she said she is straight. I forgot about this for awhile. I recently started thinking on it like “maybe being gay is bad” and started searching up if it was wrong to see why my friend would t accept me. But I’ve decided to not worry about it as I cannot change who I truly am but have to embrace it.

Holy shit, I knew I was onto something when I searched this video🤯🏳️‍🌈

Im christian and came out as bi recently. My parents were nice, and all. But they told me “god will change your direction if he needs to” meaning- they dont accept it. They also watch christian videos and watched a few about lgbtq+, all saying it was wrong. I hate it so much having to pretend “oh, yeah that talk made me straight!” My friends and i are all lgbtq+ and we joke around and write on whiteboards about lgbtq+ being okay. Its always says- “love is love!” Or “accept all!” And its always erased when we leave for lunch. Its bad.

Thank you for your courage. You’re truly amazing and I’m so sorry for every bit of trouble you have gone through in the name of God

I am deconstructing my former Christianity. Don't know if I will reconvert but it is my personal view that sin is what drives us apart, causes hate, confusion, ignorance etc. Love, real love, is the opposite of sin, because it brings us together and bridges gaps. But I know many attach 'that which offends God' to their definition of sin as well. Doesn't God need an ego to be offended? Very strange to me. And then I have to question, if this God doesn't share the same goal as me, which is to bring people together and increase the amount of good in the world through mutual aid and understanding, what DO they want? I think the Christians who worship this God who doesn't want gay people to be together or trans people to feel safe expressing themselves have a false image of God. And if God possessed the human ability to be offended, they probably would be offended by the idea that they were so delicate.

thank u so much

there’s no reason why it would be a sin anyway. i mean i understand it’s “lust,” but people have sex with a different intention rather than reproduction, so why is it different when it comes to people of the same gender? it’s just love.

Thire is a God/higher power but Gay is a Natural process

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SAYING IS A SIN 👍

I had watched many videos and read many articles about this topic. They made me feel very insecure and bad about my sexuality. I'm a religious person so it all scared me. Especially those comments on other videos. But this video helped me a lot. My heart feels so much lighter now, there's no reason to be scared. I think I'm about to cry..

do you have like, short summaries of what the next few largest religions on the list think?

I kinda don’t like religion. The amount of people who take the message wrongly is deplorable and I don’t think the actions it has done can just be forgiven. This is why I’m an atheist but I’m learning to be more tolerant of religious people so I don’t eventually spiral into justifying genocide against religious people and become the very thing I swore to destroy. I’m starting to be more tolerant but I still don’t really like religion and I think it’s holding humanity back from what it can really do. I’m not trying to convert people to atheism but I’m tolerating religious people more. If you want to believe in a holy sky man or men then go ahead but respect my ability to not believe in those things.

Hey! So a genuine question here. While encouragement and affirmation are wonderful things to experience, what does the Bible say exactly (verses of scripture) against the practice of homosexuality? I’ve always been under the impression that it is sin, but regardless of that,to love each individual regardless the depths of their sins or deprivations of their hearts. and to be a Christian hating individuals is purely unacceptable. So, if it’s explicitly clear it’s not sin, great! But I personally have trouble believing one of the most undisputed areas of the Bible (being homosexualities sinfulness) for the past 2000 years plus just all of a sudden had some scriptural basis for not being sin? Would love to hear from someone! Thanks for reading!

Jesus came to me and told me God made me gay and that He loves me!❤ God loves all of us. He makes NO mistakes!

I'm curious as to what church was used for the thumbnail. I know that a lot of smaller churches can look extremely similar but holy cow that looks exactly like the one I went to up until I was 11, down to the ending of the pews, the pulpit area, the doorway on the right side, and the stain glass used.

As a gay dude who is only attracted to men, I wish my parents would support me, but instead they want me to be straight even i do not want.

Thank you for this video. It’s very informative ☺️