My dad, a retired ELCA pastor, sent me this email:
“EVERY TIME HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE, IT IS
CONDEMNED! That is a very strong statement and one with meaning!
The Holy Bible always treats heterosexuality as normative:
See I Cor. 7; Eph 5 and I Peter 3.
Old Testament references to read:
Genesis 19:4-5 Their sin is homosexuality
Leviticus 19:22
Leviticus 20:13
New Testament references to read:
Romans 1:18-19
1:21
1:24
1:26-27
I Cor. 6:9-11 A very significant reference.
I Cor. 6:16-20 and
I Tim 1:9-11
I began - and now I will close - with the very powerful reminder
that EVERY TIME HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVIOR IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE, IT IS
CONDEMNED!”
Please use these verses, when trying to persuade people that no Christian church should consider ordaining gays.
Look at the strife it causes. It tears apart any organization that embraces, or even compromises it. Not because God curses them. But because of what homosexuality does to people.