I have studied the Bible extensively, in English, Greek, and Hebrew/Aramaic, and I have yet to find a passage that upon reflection has nothing to do with modern life. Scripture on sexual immorality is not merely connected to modern life, but central, and anyone who can't accept that basic truth has no business in the pulpit.
Also from the article: "When the Session of First Presbyterian Church in Henderson, N.C., called me to be their interim pastor in August 2008, I didn't tell them I was gay . . . not feeling the need to confess to everyone in the world about my sexual orientation for a contract job, I never mentioned my partner and two children. (After all, I reasoned, straight members wouldn't feel the need to explain their family.)"
There is a difference between failing to mention aspects of your personal life that are consistent with the Bible's teaching and failing to mention that you are openly violating God's Word. Apparently, this self-centered activist chooses to ignore that inconvenient truth. A straight member who was openly living an adulterous life had better feel the need to explain, and it would take quite a justification to gloss over the Bible's injunctions against sexual immorality. It is disingenuous for this author to pretend otherwise.
Had the church asked him forthrightly if he were homosexual, he would have had a tizzie-fit over that and possibly sued.
The main social feature of homosexuality is perpetual victimhood. It is “fabulous racism” for those who don’t qualify as victims of racism. It can never be resolved because the whole point is to, well, revel in victimhood.
Why in the world would someone who was convinced that his lifestyle was appropriate and acceptable give a rat’s patootie what other people think about it? Why the constant begging (i.e., coercion) for societal approval and grandizement?
That’s very telling, I think.
I don't like the perverts always referring to me as "straight". How about normal and abnormal?