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Gay Marriage Persuasive Essay

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Gay No More – Rapper Overcomes Same-sex Attraction

One argument for gay marriage and the support of gay lifestyles is that homosexuals cannot help who they are since they were born that way. We should not judge their sex choices any more than someone's skin color. The Bible does not agree. It says that we are all born with the propensity to sin and we need to fight against it. Some face a desire to steal, some to lie, some to kill, and others to sin sexually.

Jackie Hill-Perry was a lesbian. She is now a Christian rapper who says that "church leaders who were ministering to her did not isolate her sexuality from the rest of her, but instead treated her as a whole person." She realized that she was not just a great person with one thing that was wrong, but that she was a spiritual being with a whole lot of sin in her body. According to Hill-Perry, it wasn't just homosexuality, it was “hatred, bitterness, laziness, gluttony, lack of stewardship, pride.” …show more content…

She is now married to another music artist, Preston Perry, and has a daughter.

“When I was able to see that all of me needed Jesus, all of me needed to be whole, and all of me needed to be disciplined, that's what helped me. Because it kind of humbles you where [I said] 'I'm real messed up because it's not this one little fraction of me. It's all of me.' And I'm able to really crawl to Jesus and know He can fix me."

Hill-Perry believes that Christians must hold true to the Bible – all of it – if we are to believe it is God-inspired as it claims to be. “I think we've made God very little if we believe that he cannot change people. If he can make a moon, stars and a galaxy that we have yet to fully comprehend, how can he not simply change my

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