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God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships (Revised and Expanded) Pirates "Conventional exclamatory phrases don't come2025 REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION The landmark book exploring what the Bible actually says and doesn't say about same sex relationships As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of many young people: to one day share his life with someone, to build a family of his own, to give and receive love. But when Vines realized he was gay, those hopes were called into question. The Bible, he'd been taught, condemned gay