Polycarp1
Born-again Liberal Episcopalian
LOVE =/= HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS
Not on my watch will you attempt to distort the Golden Rule like that. Not while I'm here ....
First, unless you're Mr. Obama or Bp. Ratziger, it's not "your watch."
Second, you and seemingly everyone else opposed to homosexual relations is completely missing the point.
The question as Jesus requires us to face it is not "is what they're doing moral?" but rather "is what I'm doing moral?"
And that means loving a gay person as yourself, doing unto a LGBT person as you would wish to have done unto you. There may be room for kindly guidance there, but there is not for uncompassionate condemnation. And you can spring every other verse of Scripture on me, that defines the behavior my Lord and Savior expects from me in absolute principles. Not, please note, that I am expected to have sex with him, but that I am to treat him with respect, courtesy, compassion, agapetic and brotherly love.
This is not "Anything Goes-ism" nor is is secular humanism -- it is the core of moral theology as taught by the Gospel. And it is the part that most Christians find goes too much against their carnal desire to be judge and jury of the behavior of their fellow man, so they try to rationalize it away.
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