Kindness should be at the heart of Christian teaching – including towards LGBTQ+ students | Matthew…
like the Old Testament as much as the next Christian. There’s lots of fabulous stuff in there: the creation story is quite beautiful, Job is an extraordinary vignette of life’s inevitable hardships, and Song of Solomon is racier than Playboy magazine – or so I’m told.
But whatever the Old Testament might say, those of us who are Christians should always turn first to the teachings of Christ himself. Much has been written about the trauma LGBTQ+ students have suffered – and continue to suffer – at many schools, including religious ones. We should not minimise the very significant impact of that mistreatment for a moment.
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