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“are homosexuals kicked out of the church?”

Here is but just one example:

“New York gay couple kicked out of church choir after having married in Canada” http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Nov_25/ai_111850619
It isn’t a stretch if the imagination that this can happen, even if it is just the feeling of not being welcome. But I think this question is meant it ask if anybody who hasn’t repented and changed their life are they not indeed welcome in most any mainstream church today?

Well, yes, and so are also a lot of couples who committed adultery and have remarried and continue to live separated from their first, second or third spouse, and many who separated from the spouse that brought their children into this world. Are these some of these people also not welcome in some other congregations too, well yes.

Is there a group of people trying to push an interpretation of the Bible that says adultery isn't a sin, and, therefore, need not be repented?

Already happened during protestant reformation.

“Is there a movement afoot to have adultery accepted as an alternative lifestyle that is in keeping with what God has ordained?”

As a result of the protestant reformation movement, and of secular beliefs in churches; nowadays marriage and remarriage even for the most trivial reasons or disagreements between spouses and is an accepted practice.

But Jesus said; Matt 5:31,32 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

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Luke 16:18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

So the fact that there are so many people on their second or third spouses (or more) and who are also church members, is that proof that adultery is an accepted lifestyle, if we also agree in Jesus’s definition of adultry as written in Mathew and Luke?

“I’m not seeing the parallels.”

Obviously many people don’t, that is my question; how is it we can not see these parallels? Is any sin worse or better than the other, or are all sins equally in need of repentance, and maybe continually in need of forgiveness?