{"id":20977,"date":"2012-04-10T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2012-04-10T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T12:52:22","slug":"only-say-the-word-by-alan-mcmanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/only-say-the-word-by-alan-mcmanus\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Say The Word by Alan McManus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Only Say The Word<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Affirming Gay and Lesbian Love<\/em><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Alan McManus<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many good people, in good faith, while sympathising with the ethical and ecclesiastical situation of lesbian and gay Christians, still regard homosexuality as unnatural. Other good people, in just as good faith, defend homosexuality on grounds of personal plight and involuntary sexual orientation \u0096 with private misgivings that this defence may also be applied to paedophilia. This little book provides not only a useful argument for a more merciful reading of Scripture than that usually employed to condemn same-sex relationships, but also a philosophical analysis of the nature of \u0091nature&#8217;. Finding that all, and only, those relationships which are harmonious can be considered natural, the author invites us to only say the Word, that we may all be healed.<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2>Check for it on:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/search?tag=lesbianfun-20&amp;index=books&amp;field-title=Alan McManus, Only Say The Word\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=Only Say The Word, Alan McManus&#038;qid=\">Goodreads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?tbm=bks&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Alan McManus, Only Say The Word\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n .TFtable{\n  border-collapse:collapse; <\/p>\n<p> }\n .TFtable td{ \n  spacing:10px; border:#ffffff 5px solid; padding-right:20px<\/p>\n<p> }\n \/*  Define the text for all the 2nd columns  *\/\n .TFtable td:nth-child(2){\n  color: #0099ff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<table 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