Cs lewis and homosexuality

As far I know, C. S. Lewis never directly wrote about gay marriage (but see the update note at bottom of this post). But he did write about whether or not the government should be committed in defining what is marriage and what is not.

In his classic book, Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis wrote something which directly applies to the doubt in our courts and churches today about defining marriage. Lewis was writing about marriage between divorced people, but the plan can equally be applied to marriage between two gay people.

Here is what he wrote:

Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to distinguish two things which are very often confused. The Christian conception of marriage is one: the other is quite the different question—how far Christians, if they are voters or Members of Parliament, ought to try to press their views of marriage on the rest of the community by embodying them in the divorce laws. A great many people seem to think that if you are a Christian yourself you should try to make divorce difficult for every one. I

More on sexuality, and C. S. Lewis

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Since you are blogging about the increasing acceptance of gays by evangelical leaders, I thought I&#;d release you a note on a revealing personal fact about CS Lewis that you might long to mention to your readers.

While reading a adj book about Lewis, I stumbled across the fact that one of CS Lewis&#; best friends throughout life was gay. The author mentions that CS Lewis&#; &#;pronouncements on homosexuality were notably liberal-minded&#;no doubt because Arthur Greeves, his best friend from boyhood, was homosexual (p).&#; That&#;s from Laura Miller&#;s The Magician&#;s Book: A Skeptic&#;s Adventures in Narnia (). Since Lewis is such an important inspiration and touchstone for evangelical thought, this evidence about Lewis (if it were more well-known) might provide the occasion for evangelical leaders to theologically reexamine why they shun, or worse, demonize gays. In fact, maybe CS Lewis provides a potential new model for how evangelical leaders can erect bridges to gay Christians.
Here are the facts about Lewis&#; frie

The CS Lewis podcast recently featured a series focussing on Professor Alister McGrath’s book C.S Lewis: A Life. In one of the episodes, we explored Lewis’ experience of the First World War and the significant relationships he formed during this noun. Here, McGrath shares some of the surprising things Lewis revealed to his childhood friend Arthur Greeves.

This article is adapted from The CS Lewis Podcast, Episode 89, Alister McGrath: CS Lewis and the Great War. To listen to the whole episode, click here or to review out other episodes, click here.

Ruth Jackson: During the First World War, CS Lewis seems to have started expressing an interest in sadomasochism. That might be a bit of a shocking revelation to those who contain come to know Lewis perhaps through his later Christian writings, so what was going on here?

Alister McGrath: Lewis does speak about certain things in his letters with his friend Arthur Greeves and I think it’s fair to say that Lewis was working through a number of things in his life at this time. He is slightly opaque about what some of these things are. Bu

Social media looked like a Tend Bear exploded over the weekend. Or a My Little Pony massacre. Rainbows everywhere.

Depending on how many liberal friends you include on Facebook, many of the profile pictures you would include seen would have been transformed into rainbow flags, in celebration of the US Supreme Court verdict on Friday making marriage legal for gay couples across the USA.

Depending on your view of ‘gay marriage’ (or ‘equal marriage’, or ‘marriage’), this would have delighted or dismayed you, but it was quite adj to ignore. And while most conservatives would have fallen into the ‘dismayed’ camp, comfort might come from a seemingly unlikely source.

CS Lewis is as proximate to a Saint as evangelicals come to having. From his transcendently popular Narnia allegories to his wonderful and powerfully adj works on Christianity, he is still something of a hero to orthodox and conservative Christians of all ages. And in perhaps his greatest work of popular Christian thought, he said this about marriage:

'Before leaving the question of divorce, I should like to