"the Bible has little to say about homosexuality and an awful lot to say about being compassionate, so cut it out, jerks."
That strikes me as eminently practical. The point about the accepted degrees of sin in all cases but homosexuality is especially interesting to me. There's some argument-by-shrimp—"Clearly, we no longer follow any such laws"—but it's not the whole of the argument.
If you're really curious for something in depth, I can ask the minister of my church, who is gay and whose husband is also a minister.
I am curious; I feel I hear much more about the condemnatory side of this debate than the welcoming. sairaali mentions Radical Love, upthread.
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That strikes me as eminently practical. The point about the accepted degrees of sin in all cases but homosexuality is especially interesting to me. There's some argument-by-shrimp—"Clearly, we no longer follow any such laws"—but it's not the whole of the argument.
If you're really curious for something in depth, I can ask the minister of my church, who is gay and whose husband is also a minister.
I am curious; I feel I hear much more about the condemnatory side of this debate than the welcoming.