Jesus would fight the criminalisation of LGBT people and so should we

Ugandan MPs have recently passed a bill that could result in life imprisonment, or even the death penalty, for homosexual acts. Here’s why all Christians should fight against it, regardless of their views on same-sex relationships

Criminalisation of same-sex activity, and therefore of LGBT people around the world, is very real.

According to the Human Dignity Trust, there are 71 jurisdictions around the world that treat consensual same-sex activity as crimes, including several in which the penalty for it is death.

It therefore seems timely to set out why at Living Out we are opposed to criminalisation, even though we believe that scripture teaches that God’s good gift of sexual intimacy belongs only in the context of marriage between a woman and a man.