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Upon Whom the Tower in Siloam Fell

1 December 2012 was my third World AIDS Day in a serodiscordant relationship, and I think it has been my busiest. As I write this, I have just got home from collecting for Positive Life at the Grand Opera House in Belfast, which was a surprisingly extrovert thing for me to be doing. If you […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 13 years ago

Gay

The Man I Want to be When I Grow Up

In 2009, I decided to get involved with running Belfast Pride, so I showed up at their AGM. I was sitting in my seat, looking round me, waiting for the meeting to begin. I looked up and saw I was being stared at, by an eccentric older gentleman, who was peering over his glasses at me. He […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 13 years agoJuly 28, 2022

Christianity Gay

Same-Sex Relationships: 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy

This is the text of the talk I gave to the Accepting Sexuality group. Abstract There are two passages from the New Testament that are often quoted as proof that you cannot be gay and Christian: 1 Corinthians 6.9–10 and 1 Timothy 1.9–10. The New International Version of the former says “men who have sex […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago

Christianity

The Most Frightening Words in the Bible

This is the text of an exhortation I gave to the Belfast Christadelphian Ecclesia on Sunday 16 May 2004. I found it in my archive and thought it was worth republishing here. Consider the following words: Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners, uncleanness, lasciviousness, witchcraft, hatred, variance, […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years agoJuly 28, 2022

Christianity

A New Ulster Covenant

It is just over a hundred years since the Ulster Covenant was signed. There was a small celebration of this in Belfast yesterday. Reading the text of the Covenant, I was struck by how powerful the language was: it talks about civil and religious freedom, and equal citizenship. These are issues that are at the […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years agoJuly 24, 2022

Christianity

Reflections on Belfast Pride 2012

Yesterday was the Belfast Pride parade. I was one of a group of Christians who stood in High Street (just outside St George’s Parish Church) to support the parade. During the course of the day I met two interesting people. The first was a woman called Pat. I was standing, waving at the parade, holding […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago

Christianity

Justify, Justify, Come On Up and Justify!

Sooner or later every openly gay Christian hears an argument that goes something like this: You offer no Scriptural evidence to justify same-sex relationships in the eyes of God. Or perhaps: Unless you show that same-sex relationships are acceptable to God, they are wrong. Now, that’s a dangerous style of argument for many reasons. First […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago

Christianity Gay

Who is Harmed by Same-Sex Marriage?

Imagine that the law was changed tomorrow. Instead of the law defining marriage as being a union between a man and a woman, the law changed its definition of marriage to being a union between two adults. The rules regarding everything else—age, degree of consanguinity, and so on—remain as they are now. The only change […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago

Christianity

Equal Love, Equal Rights

I was going to write more about equal marriage today. Then I saw this video. It says more than I could say today, especially as the 7 May 2011 was the day Michael and I had our relationship blessed in church. EqualLoveEqualRights on Facebook.

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago

Christianity

Marriage and Civil Partnerships

There has been a lot of talk about the dangers of gay marriage over the past few weeks. Allowing gay people to get married would, it is alleged, damage society and harm families. Not only that, but gay people themselves don’t want to get married, as shown by the low take up rates of gay […]

Andrew McFarland Campbell 14 years ago