Original sentence: He then quit Harvard in order to pursue a full-time study of the Bible's statements on homosexuality in response to widespread belief that homosexual expression is disapproved by God - a belief held at the time by his own parents and their family church.He was unable to convince the leadership of his family church of his opinion that they misunderstood what the Bible states about homosexuality, and this led to  both himself and other family members leaving that church.Matthew Vines (born March 9, 1990) is a LGBT activist, known for the viral YouTube video "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality" and his related 2014 book, God and the Gay Christian
Edited sentence: He then quit Harvard in order to pursue a full-time study of the Bible's statements on homosexuality in response to the biblically expressed and historical position that homosexual expression is disapproved by God - a belief held by all Bible-believing Christians and one held at the time by his own parents and their family church.He was obviously unable to convince the leadership of his family church of his opinion that they "misunderstood" what the Bible states about homosexuality, and this led to him leaving that church.His alleged "Christian" family also left - siding with their son's apostasy.Matthew Vines (born March 9, 1990) is a LGBT activist, known for the viral YouTube anti-Christian video "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality" and his related 2014 book, God and the Gay Christian