D. L. Day (Pastor)
Description
This publication is Gold Medal winner in the Independent Publishers Book Award for best non-fiction series.
This book is part of a series including al
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so Book II, How The Clergy Lied: A Journalist's Academic Report on LGBTQ and Biblical Interpretation.
Book I, is a comprehensive examination of LGBTQ Christian Church experience from the Crusades up to our current time.
Heavily substantiated with reference to hundreds of academic writings, Why The Clergy Lied brings together critical commentary on the deceptions driving religious oppression of LGBTQ persons through a significant part of Christian Church history. Numerous books have been written about how churches have misinterpreted scripture to condemn LGBTQ+ people. No book that we know of previously has explored why this was done.
A prolific writer on LGBTQ spirituality says this about the book:
"The book series provides solid arguments for inclusion of LGBTQ+ Christians in the world’s religious denominations. This book also examines the continuing exodus for those in the LGBTQ+ community and others who have no interest in being included in today’s mainstream churches.
What most impressed me about D. L. Day’s opus magnum was information, loads and loads of information, all documented. A striking piece of scholarship!
One well-documented topic that struck me was “Dominionism,” the agenda of the conservative “Christian” right to make the “teachings of Jesus” (their version) supreme, not just in the USA, but around the world. They are bit by bit dismantling the separation of government and religion. The end goal is theocracy. Hearing about “Christian democracy,” I had inklings of such an agenda, but I never appreciated its extent and insidious maneuvering until I read Why the Clergy Lied. The reality is sobering, even scary.
Another striking facet of this book is Day’s re-formulation of the key biblical question about LGBTQ issues: it’s not what the Bible says about homosexuality, but why homosexuality is singled out for such unrelenting condemnation. A comparison with the fornicators makes for insightful and entertaining reading. The theme of scapegoating surfaces repeatedly.
These books explicitly address the LGBTQ community, but their relevance goes much further. Anyone interested in an illuminating discussion of current religion and politics will find them worth studying."
Daniel A. Helminiak – Author of best seller What the Bible Really Says about Homosexuality
With more than 30 pages of citations, this series may be the most researched, user-friendly, candid and accessible collection of facts on Biblical interpretations, religious traditions, and history on this subject to date. From Catholics, to Pentecostals, UMC, COE, Latter Day Saints, and predominately Black congregations, the writing examines in detail how many specific denominations today are responding to LGBTQ+ inclusion.
The series addresses both why and how the clergy lied to disadvantage LGBTQ people and what has happened to overcome those efforts.
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