re homosexual issues in christianity in article may athos rutgers edu mserv mozart cc iup edu mail server writes i can see that some of the above verses do not clearly address the issues however a couple of them seem as though they do not require incredibly perverse interpretations in order to be seen as condemning homosexuality would someone care to comment on the fact that the above seems to say fornicators will not inherit the kingdom of god how does this apply to homosexuals i understand fornication to be sex outside of marriage is this an accurate definition is there any such thing as same sex marriage in the bible my understanding has always been that the new testament blesses sexual intercourse only between a husband and his wife i am however willing to listen to scriptural evidence to the contrary if we take things this literally then we must also forbid women from speaking in church paul while led by the holy spirit was human and could err i find it interesting that christ never discussed the issue of homosexuality certainly it existed back then and if it was a serious transgression christ would have condemned it i find it disturbing that the modern church spends its energy trying to stamp out something that christ didn t consider worth a single word of condemnation christ repeatedly warns us against judgement don t we risk judgement in equal measure when we condemn people who god himself did not judge when he walked on the earth the love of christ is contagious i should not that many of our readers do in fact advocate forbiding women from speaking in church this is an issue we have discussed in the past and i m not interested in redoing clh
