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I submit reasonable scholarship must conclude Christian faith cannot advocate homosexual marriage. The entire Bible, in speaking of the character, identity, and purpose of God, continuously addresses the issue of homosexual behavior. The scriptures say that in addition to creating all things, God created a single institution, which was marriage between a man and woman as the earthy manifestation of the oneness relationship He seeks with all human beings.

Throughout the Bible He is spoken of as masculine, and all humans become feminine in relation to Him; become the Bride of Christ. To restore relationship lost in Eden, God sent Christ to die for all human sins, but people must repent of, reject all their sins. To pursue sexual sin including fornication, adultery, or homosexual behavior is to reject His identity and His character, and therefore repudiate His gift of salvation enabling relationship with Him..

In Him absolute righteousness and absolute love achieves perfect justice. The scriptures provide no prescription for this problem, but pose a moral paradox requiring one to come before Him. His solution compromises neither His righteousness, nor His unconditional love in guiding each person who struggles through a fallen world, and lives with a fallen nature

The Scriptures could not be clearer that all forms of homosexuality are an abomination before God. It does not take a scholar to understand the clear teachings of Scripture on this subject although there are those that perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to make the Bible say the opposite of what it so clearly states. The approach to the moral teachings of Scripture by the ELCA and other apostate denominations is one of relativism. Morality changes with the culture. There is no sense of an objective or transcendent moral standard. The ELCA looks to the contemporary cultural norms for its ethical teachings, not the Scriptures. That is what is meant by the â€œhermeneutical battleâ€ within the ELCA. It is objectivism versus relativism.