Whilst the Christian right in the United States is making a tough stand against the progression of LGBT rights, other Christian movements have taken a more lenient approach towards the matter, arguing that the biblical texts only oppose specific types of divergent sexual behaviour, such as paederasty (i.e. the sodomising of young boys by older men).
虽然美国的基督教徒正在对抗LGBT权利的进展采取强硬立场，但其他基督教运动对此事采取了更为宽松的态度​​，认为圣经文本只反对特定类型的不同性行为，例如paederasty （即年长男性对男孩的鸡奸）。