Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tom@salzo.cary.nc.us (Tom Salzmann) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: I AM DISGUSTED! Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 06:55:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: SalzoBoard BBS Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Well, Michael, you have now disgusted me as well... It's not even worth quoting your article, but the fact is simple and clear. Homosexuality, fornication, etc, is SIN. Read it again. It is SIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes we must show love and compassion, but clearly we CANNOT tolerate the SIN and we must expect those in our family of believers to REPENT. Your rather long article of disgust preaches acceptance with no mention of counseling those to repent. If you don't believe these things are SIN, you and the PCUSA are denying the inspired Word of God. Let's just cut to the bone. Do you believe in an inerrant Bible? If not, you are way off base. God's word is supreme and cannot be challenged. The Bible is all or nothing. If you want to claim Him, you must claim His Word as well. REV 3:16 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. -- Tom Salzmann [I detect in the comment here that the wide reporting of the proposal may have obscured what the actual position of the PCUSA is at the moment. What you've been hearing about is a committee report. As far as I can determine, most people within the PCUSA are horrified by the report. While some changes in policies on sexual issues may happen, I do not expect the position of the committee to be adopted by the church. The current position of the PCUSA is that homosexuality is wrong, and unrepentant, visible homosexuals cannot be ordained. However homosexuals are welcome in the church, and persecution of them is at least as serious a sin as homosexual sexual activities. However I should note that many individual churches and other groups are more accepting than the official policy indicates. The committee (and mls) are of course well aware that their position is not acceptable to those who believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. --clh]