Wow, I made it to page 5 and I need a shower already. So far, the jist of it is: "Whatever you bring to the table (i.e., whatever deviancy) is fine with us since Christ prayed that there would be unity among his followers".
Astounding.
Well, I skipped to page 9 (11 in the document) because I wanted to see what use would be made of Scripture. So far:
1. We should take a lesson from St. Paul and just grow up and stop being infant Christians.
2. The fact that the Gospel demands that the Law be subordinated to grace generated two stories: one for the Christians who had been Jews and another for those who had been Gentiles. St. Peter was 'rightly' rebuked for not seeing this and came around to understand that the Gentiles were not unclean. Hence homosexuals aren't unclean either. You all see this, of course. (rolling eyes).
3. The Bible is always contradicting itself, but an agile mind can always reduce the problem. For instance, in Ezra Jewish men were commanded to divorce their non-Jewish wives. In Ruth (allegedly written about the same time (says who??)) Boaz is commended for marrying a non-Jewish wife. So clearly both ways are correct, depending on circumstances and hence homosexuality and heterosexuality are also correct, depending on circumstances.
4. So long as they live together, homosexuals are okay. We know this because no one ever had this phenomenon before. And we know that because....we say we know it. There is no documentation in the text supporting this, perhaps suggesting that there is text in the documents remaining to us which can be interpreted as discussing open same-sex relationships. For myself, I know one offhand: the Satyricon, written in the first century AD by a Roman senator who had a notably Fire Island-style life (Fellini made a memorable if not necessarily watchable film of this).
"That'll do, donkey", as Shrek says.
In Christ,
Deacon Paul+
Just found another: as part of the deconstruction of Leviticus, the document says this: "Interestingly, Judaism and Christianity have agreed about this: the commandments that help us sift out and interpret the others are those to love God above all else (Deut 6:4ff) and to love our neighbor as ourself (Lev 19:18)." So the relationship of the Triune God is...I can't even say it, but I can say that here homosexuality compares with self-abuse, but then you knew that.
The hurts just keep on comin'! I really can't believe my eyes.
In Christ, Deacon Paul+