Oliver "Buzz" Thomas (Baptist minister): When religion loses its credibility

[deadparrot]

What if Christian leaders are wrong about homosexuality? I suppose, much as a newspaper maintains its credibility by setting the record straight, church leaders would need to do the same:

Correction: Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not to be condemned by God's followers.

Based on a few recent headlines, we won't be seeing that admission anytime soon. Last week, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops took the position that homosexual attractions are "disordered" and that gays should live closeted lives of chastity. At the same time, North Carolina's Baptist State Convention was preparing to investigate churches that are too gay-friendly. Even the more liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) had been planning to put a minister on trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women before the charges were dismissed on a technicality. All this brings me back to the question: What if we're wrong?

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This time, Christianity is in danger of squandering its moral authority by continuing its pattern of discrimination against gays and lesbians in the face of mounting scientific evidence that sexual orientation has little or nothing to do with choice. To the contrary, whether sexual orientation arises as a result of the mother's hormones or the child's brain structure or DNA, it is almost certainly an accident of birth. The point is this: Without choice, there can be no moral culpability.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20061120/cm_usatoday/whenreligionlosesitscredibility

[evlbstrd]

1. See this link about Rev. Carlton Pearson.

http://www.thislife.org/

It's the one called "Heretics." It's about what happened when a Pentecostal preacher opened his mind.

[Vidar]

2. Good article. Thomas is proof that Christians can evolve.

[rhyno1ton]

3. Half Truth

One must look to the "WORD" to find the whole
"TRUTH".
Rom.1:24-27, 1Tim.1:10-11, 1Cor.6:9-10. 

[Catfight]

4. Religion is a choice, albeit, a stupid one, but a choice to be a bigot or not. nt