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[quote=Anonymous]I think the homosexual issue is a tricky one for most Christians.
Most didn’t have an issue with gays in the church in general.
But Ordination of ministers/bishops who want to engage in the practice of same-sex relationships themselves (which, outside of marriage, sex of any kind is named as a sin in the Bible….and Biblical marriage itself is defined as the union between one man and one woman)— it becomes a little trickier to get around. For many believers, a clergy member as a practicing homosexual means that he is engaging in an ongoing act of sin , is unrepentant of that sin, is making no offort to turn from it or cease doing it—so how can he be expected to counsel others to turn away from their own sin??.
To most Bible believing Christians, this would be like a minister being in an adulterous relationship and saying “yeah—so what? Get over it!” rather than confessing that the behavior is sinful, repenting, and asking for forgiveness….and making every effort to stop behaving in an adulterous way. (And for the record, the Bible says that marrying a woman who has been divorced IS adultery, so this even applies to ministers/clergy who remarry to women who are divorced from someone else. It’s a sin.) And the issue is not the sin itself.
We are ALL sinners in need of a savior.
The issue is in claiming that the sin is NOT sinful, refusing to confess the sin, and denying the need to ask for forgiveness, and declining to “go and sin no more.”

I’m all for being embraced by God and the church in spite of ALL my many sins.
But once a church or clergy start re-writing what is actually sinful….and they start calling evil “good” and good “evil”—then we have lost our way.
When a minister embraces sin and refuses to guide people OUT of it….when he espouses a gospel of “live how you want” rather than “live how Christ wants,” then it becomes an issue worthy of reflection. Are we pursuing truth and seeking out Gods desire or are we creating a church that is based on our own desires and calling it Godly?[/quote]

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