Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. "I do not believe that the Jesus who was on the side of the weak and the persecuted would accept the treatment generally being meted out by us Christians to an already persecuted minority," Tutu said.
No wonder Tutu never shows up in any meeting of all the other African Anglican leaders. They won't put up with him. Tutu thinks it's all about HIM, and what HE believes. The Bible is useful for plucking random verses to use out of context, and the verses he doesn't like don't mean anything.
First, Conservatives always try to win in one fell swoop at General Convention, but they haven't got sufficient political acumen to achieve it, and no longer have the votes, either.
In contrast, the revisionists have long followed a pattern of patient incremental gains within the bureaucratic structure of the church, each of which is then formalized at convention -- by their conveniently placed delegates -- as a fait accompli.
The Conservatives are guilty of several things. First, they've fallen into the trap of "not wanting to seem mean," and thus allow people to fudge on the truth -- which is the precondition for the revisionists' strategy of incremental gain. Conservatives tend also to be too busy with other things, to pursue incremental gains of their own; and they're generally predisposed to desiring a Big Win, and thus refuse to accept incremental gains when they're available.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them" (Leviticus 20:13)
"For this cause God gave them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet" (Romans 1:26, 27)
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God. Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)
So... what am I missing that Tutu is apparently enlightened of??? I read: homosexuality is clearly a sin. Nonetheless, homosexuals are just as capable of receiving grace through Christ as the rest of us sinners.
Their problem: they do not accept that they are sinning, and Tutu and others like him sanctify their misconception.
The result: Tutu is a false prophet and non-repentant homosexuals are damned.