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- Matthew_Vines abstract "Matthew Vines (born March 9, 1990) is an openly gay Christian speaker and LGBT activist, known for the viral video "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality" on YouTube. Vines grew up in Wichita, Kansas, having interests in performing arts, speaking and writing. While in high school, he created a fan website dedicated to the Harry Potter movie series. The website, Veritaserum.com, drew more than 50,000 hits per day, and became a source of employment for him as he maintained the site and sold space within it to advertisers. Growing up, he attended a Presbyterian church with his family. Upon graduation from high school, he was accepted into Harvard. He studied at Harvard for two years during 2008-2010, focusing on philosophy. He then took a leave of absence in order to pursue a full-time study of the Bible's statements on homosexuality in response to widespread anti-gay sentiment he encountered growing up. He was unable to convince the leadership of local church that they misunderstood what the Bible states about homosexuality.In March 2012, Vines delivered a speech in front of a congregation at College Hill United Methodist Church, detailing his belief that "the Bible never directly addresses and certainly does not condemn, loving, committed same-sex relationships". The presentation was recorded on video and uploaded to YouTube, where it went viral through its sharing on social networks. The clip was noted for its detailed treatment of the Bible verses that are generally translated to refer to homosexuality, and for the claim that references in the original languages are more ambiguous than many people realise. Some scholars pointed out that the material of the video was largely not new, but the format made the material more accessible to the general public. Since then, the video of the speech has been seen more than 500,000 times on YouTube and has been featured in The New York Times.His video drew various responses from Christian media outlets and individuals, often contesting his claim that the God of the Bible condones homosexual relationships. Conservative same-sex attracted Christians also offered critiques, for example of his use of Old Testament verses in light of the New Covenant. Robert Gagnon, widely recognized as one of the world's top experts on the subject, claimed that he has previously refuted the arguments that Vines raised. Some of the secular media reports about the video drew criticism themselves, for example for their journalistic quality. Requests for public debates with Vines have tended to be declined or ignored. However, supportive articles and groups have contributed to his cause including a popular LGBT Christian website "Would Jesus Discriminate" as well as support by a growing group of LGBT Christian churches and congregations.Vines' success in gaining an audience as a vlogger gave him impetus to found The Reformation Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the mainstream Christian church's teachings on sexual orientation and gender identity and seeking greater inclusion of LGBT lay members and clergy. In April 2014, Vines published a book, God and the Gay Christian, which provided a backdrop of his speech and responds to the main themes of the controversy. In the same week the book was published, the faculty of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary released an e-book, God and the Gay Christian? Responding to Matthew Vines, edited by Albert Mohler. Mohler argues that Vines severs the passages under discussion "from the flow of the biblical narrative and the Bible’s most fundamental revelation about what it means to be human, both male and female."".
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