Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ALLEN@mscf.med.upenn.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Imposing Christian morality on nonbelievers Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 91 05:53:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 52 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) writes in response to: >> I suggest that a gay whose acts -- however sinful they may be, >> and I do not know whether they are or not -- are committed in >> honest and charitable love with his or her partner may be much >> closer to the Holy Spirit than a professing Christian > >This is absolute blasphemy. And don't you think that the Pharisees thought that it was blasphemy for Jesus to heal the blind man on the Sabbath or for Jesus to talk to the Samaritan (and a woman, at that) at the well or for Jesus to clear the moneychangers out of the temple. Christ constantly challenges people to do what is right rather than what Church doctrine says is right. >The Bible clearly shows that homosexuality is a sin. No it does not. People have interpreted it in such a way, but it is not clear that it is a sin. >Sin separates one from God. Which is why homophobia is a sin. It separates the homophobes from God because they cannot accept all God's children as She accepts them. It separates homosexuals from God because they do not to be part of a church that hates them for who they are. Homophobia is a sin; homosexuality is not. >[Sin] does not bring him/her closer to God. This is how I know that homosexuality is not a sin. Accepting my homosexuality allowed me to accept God. If I could not love myself for who I was then how could I accept that God loved me for who I was. Accepting my homosexuality has brought me closer to God. >I simply reiterate what the Bible says, That's right you simply reiterate what the Bible says, just as the Pharisees simply reiterated what the Law said. The Bible is very clear what Jesus thought of the Pharisees. -- Hugs, John John Allen allen@mscf.med.upenn.edu --- B4/5 f t w s(-) k r /| *\ |*\ | \o*|/ "Light is the left hand of darkness" -- U. K. LeGuin ---