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The story of Atlanta becoming the “LGBTQ+ capital of the South” doesn’t start with gay couples partying at their marriage reception in 2015. The story doesn’t even start in a Greenwich Village bar in 1969. No. This story starts in 1946.

The word “homosexual” was first placed in the Bible in 1946. Researchers agree that its operate was inaccurate, as it was used in place of a Greek word that roughly translates as “sexual pervert.” The pos, Arsenokoitai, could originally be establish in 1st Corinthians 6:9, and was often used to help why the “wicked” wouldn’t inherit God’s kingdom.

Here’s the thing.

The Revised Standard Book Committee, a bible committee, voted on the use of the term “homosexual” as an adequate replacement for “Arsenkoitai.” The correct versions were available to them during the voting process. Luther Weigle, leader of the committee, later accepted the mistranslation in a letter to a gay Christain. Experts Kathy Baldock and Ed Oxford uncovered this fact after the mistranslation had been hidden for years. 

This led to the pos homosexual being placed in many versions of the Bible. This disinformation spread into some evangelical sects of Christianity.

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