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Just wanted to know --- is it wrong to accept CELIBATE GAY's into church membership

Nice liberal try. The article's focus is upon pastors, not membership. There's no excuse for allowing gay pastors, celibate or not.

In Romans 1, it is explained that God gives people up to homosexuality as a form of judgment. Church membership implies the individual has come back to God as a sinner (which we all are) and has put their faith in Christ's work, and has repented of their sin. A repentant Christian will no longer identify themselves as a 'gay' or an adulterer or a murderer. To do so it just another liberal method to slither their immorality into the church.

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Nice liberal try. The article's focus is upon pastors, not membership. There's no excuse for allowing gay pastors, celibate or not.

Actually the question is not conservative or liberal --- it's a relevant one.

Since you want to focus on the pastor, let's do it. Is it your contention that a pastor should never ever be tempted by any form of sin ( be it homosexual or heterossexual or material or even pride ) ?

As for this --- A repentant Christian will no longer identify themselves as a 'gay' or an adulterer or a murderer

Pastoral candidates who are committed to their faith should not identify themselves with any of the above, I agree, but my question is this --- should their sexual inclinations even be part of the questions a pastoral search committee should ask ? Or should a 'Don't ask don't tell' policy be in place ?