Ron Sider, "Evangelicals and Homosexuality: Deep Repentance, Major Change, and Biblical Faithfulness" This video is about a lecture that Ron Sider, a senior professor at Palmer University, presents to students about evangelicals and homosexuality. He commences by saying that this presentation was a result of what he thought God revealed through the scriptures. Sider explains how evangelicals are perceived as hostile and negative towards homosexuality. He states evangelicals themselves are the only ones to blame for this. Also, he said that for too long they have been homophobic and anti-gay. Evangelicals blame homosexuality for the loss of traditional marriages, but Sider says differently. Sider states that evangelicals are not keeping their marriages conforming to God's norms; therefore, they end. He makes it very clear that evangelicals have become silent when it comes to hate crimes against homosexuals. He continues to say that instead of helping, keeping silent makes them a contributor to the crime itself.
Sider talks about the references to gays in the bible. He goes on about different verses that condemn a man from laying with another man as he was a woman, which is mentioned in the book of Leviticus. He talks about how the book of Romans and the 1st of Corinthians refers to same-sex practices and their condemnation. Sider comments that evangelicals often don't make much emphasis on other sins that are also mentioned in these scriptures. That evangelicals are mostly focusing on the sexual sins of individuals. Sider says that his opinion is not based only on these Bible verses; it's the pattern that is written in the bible. In the book of Genesis, "the creation", God created a male and a female. Sider believes that is how a marriage should be conserved. He mentions that in the book of Solomon, it talks about a male and female, a wife and husband.
Sider shared his opinion about this topic. He says evangelicals sho...
