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I'm interested to to know how you stay away from this garbage. The homo agenda certainly has afflicted most churches. They have had to make a decision on it.

In the Orthodox Church, we consider the decision as having already been made. As a matter of fact, you can read about the Council that decided this in Acts 15. St. Paul did do some excellent follow-up on the matter as well.

Quite so, "In the Orthodox Church, we consider the decision as having already been made."

So the challenge for the "gay community" is how to effect their desires within a faith community that is not about to change its thinking on these matters.

Solution it seems is to expand the understanding of "go and sin no more" so as to allow for a more "pastoral approach" to things and to limit the understanding of the passage as to taking something wrong to the Church. Just as anyone can prove anything, by the Bible, so anyone can do the same with patristics. Just look at how Orthodox and Roman Catholics differ on patristics, and it's possible to see how this can be done.

Mind you, I don't advocate what I have just described, but I can see how it's possible once one puts rationalization first and foremost. Under such circumstances, the whole thing becomes an intellectual challenge which, when accomplished, allows the pervert to thumb his nose at Orthodoxy.