But Wesley concludes: «In the end, what keeps me on the path I've chosen is not so much individual proof texts from Scripture or the sheer weight of the church's traditional
teaching against homosexual practice.
That additional data, derived from the twin sources of Revelation (Tradition and Scripture), is impressive and enriching, and fills in for Christians the full rationale for
the teaching against homosexual acts.
Not exact matches
In order for things to change, pastors and Christian leaders who believe that acceptance, fidelity, and monogamy are a better alternative to shame and promiscuity have got to speak up and speak out
against the
teaching that states * all *
homosexual expression is sinful... and proclaim that message as misinformed, damaging to God's children, and unchristian.
The 1975 Continental Congress on the Family (a nationwide gathering in St. Louis of more than 2,000 evangelicals) issued a statement declaring that «while we acknowledge the Bible
teaches homosexuality to be sinful, we recognize that a
homosexual orientation can be the result of having been sinned
against.»
Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination
against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the
teaching of the Catholic Church.
The meaning of scripture can be twisted to serve the purposes of men so we must do everything that we can to ensure that the «Good Words» that are
taught are the actual words of Yehoshua rather than the selected words of Paul and the Old Testament that form the basis of discrimination
against women, racial minorities,
homosexuals, and «different» religions (including atheism).
I would give my life for any
homosexual man or women — I would gladly give my life in exchange for theirs if it come to the crunch but I still speak out
against the sin of homosexuality... What you must understand is that it is a judgment of God when a nation turns away from God — The whole world is turning away from God and we need to stand
against the
teaching of the world... it is also a sign of the times as spoken of in timothy 1 and 2.
They are for
teaching the religion in schools and
against the
homosexual marriages etc..