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In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States has voted decisively to allow in principle the appointment, to all orders of ministry, of persons in active same-sex relationships. This marks a clear break with the rest of the Anglican Communion.
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Let me count the fallacies!!
posted on July 16, 2009The author implicitly (indirectly) implies acceptance of homosexuality with “the right to give active expression to any and every sexual desire”, using a tired domino-effect scare tactic.
The author neglects the variety of families in the Bible, the prevalence of polygamy in the Jewish Bible, still practiced in Jesus’ time, monogamy being more prevalent in Roman culture!!
The author refers to “Jesus’s own stern denunciation of sexual immorality”. In fact, Jesus seems to have gotten a lot of flak for precisely failing to do just that, as noted in the story of the woman with the alabaster jar.
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