"Calreagan is correct that singling out one sin for special rejection of membership would be wrong."
Thank you. That's the point I've been trying to make. Membership rules should be applied fairly and equally.
You miss the point completetely - LOL truth is not determined by considersation of what is fair or equitable. Just because it would be wroong to prefer one sin over another does not have anything to do with fairness... Wrong is always wrong and two wrongs equate to two wrongs... One who practices homosexuality is denying God and in essence denying membership in His Church. Just because someone else with whatever particul;ar flavor of sin may pretend to be a member or may be acceoted as a member by another really has no relevance as to the case of the homosexual. Fairness and equitey as is your 'tolerance' are moral relative constructs that are employed by secular humanists -a legitimate Church is premised in absolute truth rather than relative, derived, contrived or comparative truth...
To summarize -you miss the point...
And who says they haven't been applied fairly? Got a list of all the "out and proud" adulterers etc who were not denied membership?