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The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church. So, didn't surprise me that the issue took center stage at last week's Q Conference Boston, which gathers 1,300 top Christian lears to discs cultural issu.

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"The gay dilemma is arguably the most prsg cultural issue facg the church.

"Hirsch's talk was the first of three talks on Thursday that specifilly addrsed sexualy and/or homosexualy. Instead, what followed was a discsn on the "The Church's Gay Dilemma" between Matthew V and Julie Rodgers. V is the thor of God and the Gay Christian and founr of the Reformatn Project, which seeks to tra Christians to support and affirm LGTBQ people.

Rodgers is a gay, celibate Christian whose hirg to work the chapla's office at Wheaton College last year sparked ntroversy.

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" As rult, their seemgly wholale nmnatn of homosexualy needs to be re-terpreted as only nmng homosexual sex outsi of mted monogamo relatnships.

Rodgers, though she intifi as gay, disagreed wh V and affirmed the sexual boundari exprsed Scripture as good: "I jt tst that the boundari God put around sexualy are for our flourishg.

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Gays, who knew? '" eliced a big lgh om the the discsn was posive, clearly assumed that "gayns" was beyond the spe of remptn: celibacy was offered as the only reasonable optn for people wh same-sex attractn who wanted to honor a tradnal Christian sexual ethic. He then referenced Alan Chambers, the former print of the now-shuttered ex-gay mistry Exod Internatnal.

Another 30% reported they were able to live chastely and had "disintified" themselv om homosexual orientatn. Unfortunately, this view that homosexualy is an immutable tra was aga prented the next Q talk on sexualy – a discsn between ethicist David Ghee and Pastor Dan Kimball on whether the church's historic teachg on sexualy is reliable.

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But, Ghee asserted that Christians have been "wrong on (the gay issue) as we have been wrong on some issu the past.

"Then Ghee alleged that nmnatn of homosexualy "creat a disastro box, " which gays "nnot pe.

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