HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
Commitment to what? Only pack fudge with one partner? Among male homos the actual percent who do this is something like 4%. The equivalent among Lesbians is maybe double that.
Among heterosexuals, the respective numbers practicing monogamy are 70% for men and 80% for women.
They aren't like us. They will never be like us. So why desecrate a church with another make-believe ceremony? Particularly when your local courthouse or ACLU office or a majority of old mainline Protestant sects will cater to it.
Let me see now, these men have been sodomizing each other for “three decades strong” and the church is only now—due to a ceremony— restricting their membership????
It does seem unjust. They should of been disciplined 30 years ago.
You did warn me, but I had to go look.
Having a homosexual "tendency" is not a sin. Many a man may have a "tendency"--- an unbidden appetite, a wondering eye--- to adultery, but never cheat on his wife; many a woman may have a "tendency" to anger, envy, or avarice but never act on them, let alone try to build her life around them.
What these men did in private need never have been any kind of public issue at all --- after all, nobody had surveillance cameras in their bedroom --- but they chose to make it public by having this bogus "commitment ceremony," which is an announcement that "We join ourselves in sodomitic union."
If the Church turned a blind eye to that, the Church would be accessory, enabler, accomplice.
I hope the pastors don't shrink back from their decision to admonish these men, but use it as a "teachable moment."
May the "commitment couple" publicly repent of their error, turn away from their proud sin, and (hopefully) be reconciled with God and with His Church.
So why was someone actively engaged in a homosexual lifestyle allowed to participate in ministry in the first place? I recognize that people can struggle with same-sex attraction and still be able to serve in ministry - as long as they are not submitting to that temptation. Anyone who is actively involved in sin should not be in ministry - whether that sin is homosexual activity, adultery, fornication (sex outside of marriage), drug abuse, alcohol abuse, theft, etc.
The issue is not that homosexuality is a worse sin than any other - it is that for most people caught up in it, it is a sin that defines their whole life and becomes a part of their very identity. And when people who are known mainly by the sin they practice are allowed in ministry, it brings disrepute to the Church of Christ.
It’s only a very short road to this religious freedom to determine membership being declared “unconstitutional.”
I suspect this has been planned and will be used to take the church to court.
Wow. What a biased report. I love it that the guy got sent to the cry room.
At least somebody’s got some spine.
Why are all news articles written in favor of homosexuals? I think it’s called After the Ball, the homosexual manifesto, & apparently, they meant it. They’re screwing up the world. Our only hope is for G-d to straighten us out.