The Monitor (Kampala)
18 May 2008
The fallout over the ordination of gay priests as bishops in the worldwide Anglican Communion reaches a critical point next month when the Global Anglican Future Conference (Gafcon) kicks off in Israel.
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I cannot understand how "The Church"which it is not, can go against the scriptues,so as to be politically correct. It's easy, love the person hate the sin,now all the sinner has to do is repent.
This is not a matter of "political correctness." Nonetheless, it is an issue as difficult to explore and consider faithfully as were issues of the Copernican Revolution and insights from Galileo, who also were Christians. Furthermore, like abortion, family planning, assisted death for the terminally ill, etc., there will always be at least two interpretations provided by faithful, "Bible-believing" Christians around the world. The very approach to, and applications of, biblical studies by faithful Christians is not uniform and never have been - as evident in the Book of Acts. I suspect that even among biblical literalists there are many differences on matters related to Scripture. The Word of God within Scripture is Christ himself; that is different from the claim that all biblical sentences are the "words of God." A major challenge for us is how we faithful Christians can agree to differ, even when we are "Bible believing."
We realize that most of the continent of Africa is clearly against all expressions of homosexuality. However, we do wonder whether the "Global South" as a whole as an accurate understanding of same-sex orientation. Please allow me to suggest that you visit www.nolan-pingpank.com (intended as a very decent and family-friendly website) as one example of a same-sex, male home. Also, in the non-commercial, educational website www.philosophy-religion.org there are a number of scholarly articles in the ALL HANDOUTS section that might be illuminating. We realize that the cultural settings of Uganda and elsewhere are such that same-sex relationships are abhorrent and repulsive. Perhaps these two online resources might present an alternative viewpoint.