The Thorny Issue

http://www.gaychurch.org/Gay_and_Christian_YES/calling_the_rainbow_nation_home/6_gac_celibacy.htm

Sometimes things surprise me. This article more than any I’ve read in a long time. Especially as I found it while looking for “Bible passages to sum up a person” for the up coming funeral. I’m sure there’s some random Fundie rant in that one somewhere.

There are two things I’d like the reader to note here.

1. There is a website entitled “gaychurch.org”
2. This is written by a person struggling with the problem of being a gay Christian, and their problem with the current policy of Celebacy, based (as the writer notes) on the idea of “love the Sinner, not the Sin”.

I have a feeling this is one of those hot-topics currently faced by the Anglican Church specifically. The Anglican church is meant to be the most accepting, the one more likely to accept all nations (here, used as the writer of the above article has). The Anglican Church has accepted that it is not Sinful per se to be Gay, but the sexual act it’self is a Sin.

This is a well thought-out argument, though, of course, it doesn’t answer the counter-arguments, and mostly uses the words of Paul.

I think this is an issue that just isn’t going to go away. Especially now the law has changed and acknowledges Gay Marriges. The Churches response was to let one of their members blame the floods in Glostershire on the “Sinful Gay’s” by punishing everyone for the new law.

I think it should be pretty obvious where I stand on that one. Especially being as the reason we have a Rainbow is to show that he would never do that again. (we’ll argue about why he did it in the first place some other time shall we?).

What do you think? How should the Church handle this thorny issue? is there a way out? should a way out even be sought? you tell me.

SK