I don’t know if I should be amused at the twisted logic that seems to be going into this or just roll my eyes.

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”“A church ought to be focused on Jesus Christ and not voting on whether the Bible applies in terms of how humans are to live in a sexual relationship,” said the Rev. Mark Chavez”

Then why does he support the existing law that places constraints on the sexual activity of gay clergy? Rev. Chavez ought to follow his own advice to its logical conclusion, and support the scrapping of laws that interfere with such private matters.

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A small step in the right direction.

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The new policy would permit local congregations, if they wanted, to choose ministers ‘who’ lay leaders who were in “lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships.”

There, problem solved.

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Are we supposed to congratulate them for trying to catch up with the rest of civilization?

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There’s actually been a small subculture of gay Christians throughout much of church history. King James (of the KJ Bible) was almost certainly gay.  Now they can be public.

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The requirement is now officially dropped.

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