Anglican Commission on gays wraps up

LONDON -- A commission seeking to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over a homosexual U.S. bishop and other gay issues wrapped up its work Friday and said it would publish its report on Oct. 18.

The arguments I have heard have centered not on striking such passages, but on neutralizing them by arguing that anti-homosexual passages in the Bible don't refer to what they do.

The argument goes that the anti-homosexual references in the Bible are referring only to homosexual rape or one-night stands, but does not describe or speak about monogamous long-term loving homosexual relationships. They further state that in the context of the times, such kinds of relationships were not heard of. Therefore, the Bible wasn't/couldn't refer to them. This also explains why Jesus said that marriage was for disparate-sex couples only; there was no such thing at the time as lovingly bonded same-sex couples at that time, and so Jesus didn't express approval of something that didn't exist.

This begs a few questions. One is whether or not their concept of what the Bible verses in question are actually referring to. It also presumes that in fact, long-term homosexual relationships didn't exist in the Holy Land and in Greece in the 1st Century AD. It presumes that Jesus couldn't conceive of long-term homosexual relationships (but I thought He was divine ...). And it presumes that loving long-term homosexual relationships exist.

Re: "The argument goes that the anti-homosexual references in the Bible are referring only to homosexual rape or one-night stands, but does not describe or speak about monogamous long-term loving homosexual relationships."

And of course when the so called "monogamous long-term loving homosexual relationships" (yeah right/eyes roll) becomes the accepted norm they will be claiming homosexual rape and one-night stands should be accepted. There is no bottom to this pit. Pray the Lambeth Commission recognizes this. Until it comes out in print keep the powder dry, keep digging trenches and any time the enemy sticks his/her/its head up without their hand up shoot first and ask questions later. They want peace they can surrender first, no surrender no peace.

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