Posted on 02/12/2010 8:59:17 PM PST by ComeUpHigher
Gender and sexuality have caused divisions in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Same-sex unions are upheld in some churches and not in others; the same is true for gay clergy. While there are more than 3,300 churches that affirm lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender congregants, 57 percent of Protestant clergy hardly ever discuss issues specific to the gay and lesbian community.
But according to "Sexuality and Religion 2020," a report released this week, they probably should.
The report was published by the Westport, Conn.-based Religious Institute, a national interfaith network of more than 5,000 clergy and religious leaders.
On Tuesday, the report's authors described a "disconnect between religion and sexuality in America" and called for churches, synagogues and seminaries to work on narrowing the divide between faith and sex in the next decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Homosexuality is not psychologically healthy to begin with. They want to push their perversion on others as a way to try to justify what their entire lives give testimony to as wrong. They want to silence and demonize all who remind them that their behavior is perverse as a means of drowning out their own consciences. They desperately must make us wrong because if we are right then that means that they are behaving sinfully. When one is being sinful it can be easy for the darkened soul to become full of hate.
Also:
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 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 recompence of their error which was meet.
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Very well said!
I attend Mass to worship God and take Communion. On the rare occasions the subject comes up in the homily, we are taught to follow the teachings of the Holy Scripture and what the Church calls “natural law,” that is, what is set by nature, ie male and female. If people are interested in more detailed information, it is made available to them by the Church. But I do not want to sit through unasked-for lectures on sex when I attend Mass.
I can pretty well guarantee you that to the MORMONs it's no joke!
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