Matthew Vines Personally, I don't care what the bible says about homosexuality. I used to care and I felt the need to reconcile this issue for myself. I read several books including John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century . Maybe, I don't care because I did the research. Either way, this is a very thoughtful and reasoned presentation by a very intelligent young man. Good for him!! Via ThinkProgress: When Harvard student Matthew Vines came out as gay his sophomore year, he was “relieved and crushed” — crushed specifically because he worried he wouldn’t be welcome in his Kansas hometown. Not content to accept condemnation from his conservative Christianity, Vines took a leave of absence from college to thoroughly study the supposed conflict between homosexuality and the Bible. Earlier this month, he presented the results of his research i
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