"He's very aware of the selective use of Bible passages to support his position," Solon said.
Strikes me that the "cultural conditioning" in the Episcopal Church is affecting the people who want to write off the passages in the Bible our culture finds especially distasteful.
And it's laughable for Tim Solon to bewail the "selective use of Bible passages," when his side of the issue is demonstrably guilty of selective editing.
For example, the Book of Common Prayer lays out a set of daily readings. Over the course of the year, the BCP assigns all of Romans except for two verses. You can guess the ones: Rom. 1:26-27, which of course deal explicitly with homosexual relations. Nor, coincidentally, does 1 Cor. 6:9 appear, which says that "homosexual offenders," among many others, will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Mr. Solon's comments are also highly misleading -- very nearly a lie, in fact. We're not talking about "selected Biblical passages," against which might found others that might lead to a different conclusion. No, the Bible is consistently against sexual immorality of any kind, and consistently counts homosexual relations among them.