That is a lie! The Church has done the only responsible thing and denounced homosexual activity as the disordered acts that they are. It has consistently stated that these people have a disordered and disturbed mental process that causes them the unhealthy desire to act out sexually with a member of the same sex.
There is no equivocation in scripture or even any civil society in all of history that even thought of justifying same sex attraction through any form of legal contract prior to this century.
This is hardly enlightenment.
I disagree. It has failed them by NOT standing firm.
It hasn’t stood firm on marriage.
It hasn’t stood firm on divorce.
It hasn’t stood firm on holiness.
It hasn’t stood firm on evangelism.
It hasn’t stood firm on the Bible.
It hasn’t stood firm on unity.
I could go on and on.
The bottom line is that these wolves look at our hypocrisy and figure “why not try a BIG lie this time?”
I think this lie holds its basis in the Matthew Shepard deception and then further carried by the Fred Phelps/Westboro church actions. Again, lies used to smear the true church.
I have seen within churches so many who have chastised congregations for calling out homosexual activity as sin and morally equating this natural revulsion of sin as equal to the treatment of those with leprosy in Jesus’ day. This is a completely false comparison in my opinion.
Further, the squelching of congregational dissent over of the practice of homosexuality, I believe, led to the rise and the emboldenment of the gay mafia and the place where we are now in cultural acceptance of the practice of homosexuality and the acceptance of marginalizing anyone who disagrees. The Church stood silent or even condemned those who rose to speak up and now we see the consequences of the pervasiveness of this practice of sin.
Perhaps some Evangelical leaders are now at their moment of choosing between fame and fortune and the Word of God, but those who truly seek to follow Christ are at no such crossroad.