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Indeed. I just wish all the Protestants who still celebrate the "heroism" of folks like Luther, Calvin and Zwingli would realize that "Bishop" Robinson and the Goodridge decision are the logical culmination of what those guys set in motion, and we haven't seen the end yet.

Codswallop. The Reformers upheld Scripture as the highest and final rule by which all matters of faith and morals were to be decided. "Queer theology" is an abandonment of the Reformation, not the culmination of it.

The glorification of homosexuality in the liberal churches and the elevation of the Virgin Mary to co-mediatrix are both symptoms of the same disease: the abandonment of the Church's proper rule of faith.

The Reformers upheld Scripture as the highest and final rule by which all matters of faith and morals were to be decided.

Yes, but decided ... by whom?

Codswallop. The Reformers upheld Scripture as the highest and final rule

Codswallop indeed. Protestantism's ultimate lack of authority, with every man his own pope, turns Sacred Scripture into a "living document" and reduces the faith to "mere Christianity". The so-called Reformers exercised more personal latitude in determining Scripture and interpreting texts than any pope has ever done.

Traditional Christian teaching on contraception was abandoned in the 1930's. Scriptural prohibtions were abandoned in favor of modern interpretive frameworks -- exactly the situation today. Scripture is still being twisted to meet current social "needs". Abortion "exceptions", gay "marriage", you name it. It's all there. It's all cut from the same cloth.

Protestants simply don't agree on what the Bible says about spiritual and moral matters. And Protestants don't have the authority to stop the formation of Protestant "queer theology" churches.