I’ve confronted a Pastor who was in essense promoting the acceptance of homosexuality as non-sinful.
The response I received was that the OT references were not made in the context of sexuality, but merely of submission - that one man should not submit to another. I presume that this was extrapolated to no longer being necessary in the Pastor’s mind. On the NT passages, the Pastor actually made the comment that Jesus never spoke on the issues, and therefore His silence somehow overrides Paul’s comments. When I pointed out passages such as Matthew 10:15 where Jesus indirectly references the sins of homosexuality, it was dismissed again as not being about sexual behaviour, merely submission.
I was left absolutely stunned. Just stunned.
The Pastor went on to say that they were on the fence and hadn’t yet made a decision on the issue. A couple weeks later an openly gay woman was placed in charge of Evangelism for that church.
There’s no on the fence on this issue, not making a decision is acceptance by default.
Where do you attend now?