RE :”“The overwhelming scientific evidence is that people are born with their sexual orientation, that it is not a choice,” the church contends. “Fully accepting one’s sexual orientation and identity is key to leading a normal and healthy life. “Forcing people to act against their God-given sexual orientation will lead to disordered lives. Allowing people to act in accordance with their God-given sexual orientation leads to reconciliation ...; Believing sexuality to be a “good gift from God” – or as they declared yet another way in God’s infinite diversity – CUMC defines sin as denying who God created them to be.....“
O Lord, please forgive me for acting against you by wearing eye glasses and thereby denying your gift of myopia.
I was making fun of those views but I don't really care what they teach at an individual church. They can teach anything they want as a church(although we can make fun of it).
My real problem is when they invent these new legal or constitutional rights without a real debate or explanation of what they mean.
Justice O Conner was the key in creating a US constitutional right to homosexual sodomy through judicial fiat. Where did that come from? The 'right to sexual privacy' fairy?
Here in Maryland it is against the law to discriminate in housing and employment for sexual orientation, but sexual orientation is not defined in the law.