[BillyBoy]

>> it damages the church's already negative reputation with homosexuals <<

"The Church" didn't issue this statement. A handful of protestant pastors did.

[daniel1212]

"The Church" didn't issue this statement. A handful of protestant pastors did.

He was referring to the reputation of the church at large, not one single denomination, much less an elitist one (whose distinctives are not manifest in the inspired record of what it believed ) whose members overall support homosexual unions.