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We, of the Metropolan Communy Church of San Francis, are a beloved muny jog together om diverse spirual backgrounds and misterg primarily wh the Lbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenred Communy as a hoe of prayer of all people and a home for queer spirualy. "Endg the requirement for celibacy for gays "aligns wh our existg re visn: the doors of this church are as wi as the arms of the Savr proclaims, " he adds.
The senr pastor and elrs of San Francis's evangelil Cy Church will no longer require members to absta om homosexual practice, so long as the homosexual activy occurs the ntext of marriage. Instead, on the matter of homosexual practice, the Pastor and Elr Board gave preemence to their judgment regardg what nduc more to human flourishg and, oddly, to a scripturally misguid book wrten by former Veyard pastor Ken Wilson lled A Letter to My Congregatn. ” Wilson ntends wrongly that the biblil dictment of homosexual practice is limed to exploative relatnships wh adolcents, slav, and temple prostut, as though the were the only forms of homosexual practice known to persons of the ancient Near East and the Gre-Roman world.
We receive ditn that Pl did not have only exploative or promiscuo acts of homosexual practice view, given (1) Pl’s appeal to a nature argument Rom 1:26–27; (2) his strong tertextual echo to Genis 1–2 and the Levil prohibns when cg homosexual practice (Rom 1:24–27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10); (3) the unqualified character of his dictment (cludg an terdictn of lbianism Rom 1:26); and (4) the fact that even some Gre-Roman moralists (to say nothg of Jews and Christians) rejected homosexual practice absolutely.
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The bt biblil scholars who have studied extensively the issue of homosexual practice, cludg advot for homosexual unns (such as William Loar and Bernatte Brooten), know that the scriptural dictment of homosexual practice clus a rejectn of mted homosexual unns.
Wilson also ntends that Pl’s approach of tolerance toward matters of diet and lendar Romans 14 should ern the church’s actns on homosexual practice. For Wilson, homosexual practice is an adiaphoron, a “matter of difference, ” over which Christians n and should agree to disagree.
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On the ntrary, he repeatedly warned nverts that unrepentant participants sexual immoraly—cludg homosexual practice, ct, adultery, sex wh prostut, and fornitn—would not her the kgdom of God (1 Ths 4:3–7; 1 Cor 5; 6:9–10; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19–21; Eph 5:3–5). In the ntext of Romans, there n be no qutn of Pl regardg homosexual practice wh the same moral difference as matters of diet and lendar.
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Akatharsia) general and homosexual practice particular as egreg stanc of supprsg the tth about the way the Creator ma . The same scriptural jtifitn Cy Church offers to treat as permissible homosexual sex the ntext of what Cy Church ems a marriage uld be ed to say that ct is acceptable so long as occurs the ntext of a “marriage” between nsentg adults. A homosexual “marriage, ” like an ctuo “marriage, ” merely celebrat and regulariz (i.
Although the Cy Church letter appeals to J’ missn to outsts as a basis for jettisong a male-female requirement for marriage, is difficult to claim that the J we enunter Scripture would have untenanced homosexual sex the ntext of a “marriage. Gagnon is an Associate Profsor of New Ttament at Ptsburgh Theologil Semary and thor of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermentics (Abgdon Prs) article has been updated to rrect an accuracy about the size of Cy a fan of First Thgs on Facebook, subscribe to First Thgs via RSS, and follow First Thgs on Twter.