{"id":18432,"date":"2023-05-03T04:40:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/how-does-engagement-with-religious-texts-including-genesis-from-the-bible-inform-our-response-to-contemporary-issues-surrounding-human-diversity-and-the-clash-between-religion-and-the-lgbtq-communit\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T04:40:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T04:40:34","slug":"how-does-engagement-with-religious-texts-including-genesis-from-the-bible-inform-our-response-to-contemporary-issues-surrounding-human-diversity-and-the-clash-between-religion-and-the-lgbtq-communit","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/how-does-engagement-with-religious-texts-including-genesis-from-the-bible-inform-our-response-to-contemporary-issues-surrounding-human-diversity-and-the-clash-between-religion-and-the-lgbtq-communit\/","title":{"rendered":"How does engagement with religious texts, including Genesis from the Bible, inform our response to contemporary issues surrounding human diversity and the clash between religion and the LGBTQ community?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"5\">The instructions is linked in a pdf. Below is what I want to be included in the essay&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"5\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"5\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>For my essay, I\u2019ll probably will use the text \u201c Genesis\u201d to identify a contemporary issue when it comes to<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"6\">&nbsp;human diversity. For many years now, the topic of how religion and the LGBTQ+ community<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"7\">&nbsp;clash has been an ongoing debate, as some religious communities have been opposed<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"8\">&nbsp;to the idea of same-sex relationships and non-binary identities\/pronouns. However,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"9\">there are religious communities that actually support these individuals and who look pass this historic<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"10\">&nbsp;idealogy that the bible made. These communities look at the greater picture and recognize<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"11\">&nbsp;the LGBTQ+ community as regular unsinning people. This creates a complex and nuanced<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"12\">&nbsp;issue that touches on both personal beliefs and broader social and political questions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-page-index=\"0\" data-textline-id=\"12\">Professor comments to be included:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Inter, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">you may consider the gender binary presented in Genesis and how contemporary critics of transgender rights might try to appeal to these biblical categories as universal or somehow original and therefore authoritative. The question, in this case, would be something along the lines of: why do we accept the bible&#8217;s authority on questions of an individual&#8217;s gender identity?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instructions is linked in a pdf. Below is what I want to be included in the essay&nbsp; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- For my essay, I\u2019ll probably will use the text \u201c Genesis\u201d to identify a contemporary issue when it comes to&nbsp;human diversity. For many years now, the topic of how religion and the LGBTQ+ community&nbsp;clash has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[757],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18432"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}