[Peace-discuss] Rick Warren, Nation Article et al.

[Bob Illyes]

I'm not quite sure what the argument is about. There are a handful 
anti-homosexual passages in the New Testament. The one that comes to mind 
is from the first chapter of Romans:

"For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women 
did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise 
also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust 
one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and 
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

What do we learn from this? Paul thinks that homosexuality is unseemly and 
unnatural although, it would appear, God-given. Elsewhere in the Bible we 
can find other trivia, such as that Paul thinks that Timothy (I believe it 
was) should drink wine for his digestive problems. Do we really want to 
decide major ethical issues based on such out-of-context snippets??? I do 
not see that the New Testament requires that followers stand in judgement 
against homosexuals, but rather that they NOT stand in judgement.

Bob