re homosexuality issues in christianity in may geneva rutgers edu noye midway uchicago edu vera shanti noyes writes in article may athos rutgers edu carlson ab larc nasa gov ann carlson writes bible verses ag used ag homosexuality deleted anyone who thinks being gay and christianity are not compatible should check out dignity integrity more light presbyterian churches affirmation mcc churches etc meet some gay christians find out who they are pray with them discuss scripture with them and only then form your opinion also check out the episcopal church although by no means all episcopalians are sympathetic to homosexual men and women there certainly is a fairly large percentage in my experience who are i am good friends with an episcopalian minister who is ordained and living in a monogamous homosexual relationship this in no way diminishes his ability to minister in fact he has a very significant ministry with the gay and lesbian association of his community as well as a very significant aids ministry this may sound argumentative but do the pro homosexual crowd give the same support to church members that are involved in incestuous relationships if we do a little substitution above we get although by no means all episcopalians are sympathetic to incestuous men and women there certainly is a fairly larget percentage in my experience who are i am good friends with an episcopalian minister who is ordained and living in a monogamous incestual relationship this in no way diminishes his ability to minister in fact he has a very significant ministry with the incest association of his community do the same standards apply if not why not and while we re in the ballpark what about bestiality i can t recall offhand if there are any direct statements in the bible regarding sex with animals does that activity have more or less a sanction please avoid responses such as you re taking this to extremes i would guess that a disproportionate percentage of the inerrant bible community views homosexual acts with distaste in the same manner that society at large views incest scott cokely scott cokely nb rockwell com they came for the davidians but i did not speak up because i was not a davidian then they came for me opinions expressed are mine and do not represent those of rockwell obviously you can replace homosexuality in the above statement by anything from murder to sleeping late that doesn t mean that the same people would accept those substitutions the question is whether the relationships involved do in fact form an appropriate vehicle to represent christ s relationship to humanity this is at least partly an empirical question in some cases types of human relationship have been rejected because over time they always seem to lead to trouble i think that s the case with slavery one can argue that in theory if you follow paul s guidelines it s possible to have christian slaveholders but in practice over a period of time most people came to the conclusion that nobody can really have that degree of control over another and not abuse it the message you were responding to was asking you to look at the results from christian communities that endorse homosexuality note christian homosexuals not people you see on the news advocating some extremist agenda you may not want to base your decision completely on that kind of observation but i would argue that it s at least relevant you can t answer the request by asking why you shouldn t look at the incest association because in fact there is no such association if there were it might be reasonable for you to look at it too of course that doesn t mean that the results of all such examinations would necessarily come out the same way part of why there aren t groups pushing all possible relaxed standards is that some of them do produce obviously bad results clh
