Oliver Thomas, a Baptist minister (obviously with enormous cojones, God bless him), has written an important USA Today editorial on the Bible and homosexuality called When Religion Loses Its Credibility. Teaser as follows:
Galileo was persecuted for revealing what we now know to be the truth regarding Earth’s place in our solar system. Today, the issue is homosexuality, and the persecution is not of one man but of millions. Will Christian leaders once again be on the wrong side of history?
Boortz was talking about it yesterday, saying all the right things. I was going to mention it last night, but I didn’t even think about it again after the school bus accident. I believe it must have been the sustained exposure on his show that helped generate the huge list of comments (which are often humorous, though not intentionally so) at the end of the editorial.
Take some time with the whole piece. Think about what you read. And before you throw a tortured piece of Leviticus or Romans at me from which you, your Sunday school teacher, or your clergyman has teased “homosexuality is a sin,” consider this. Jesus had a lot to say about how He would have us treat others. He taught not to judge, and He taught to love our neighbors as ourselves.
And He had not a single word to say about homosexuality.
My God is heartbroken at how gay people are too often treated in early 21st-century America, and frequently in His name, no less. Is yours?
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