Yes it just came in the mail. There it is as I expected. An bind in the Harvard Divinity School air saying that homosexual activity is okay from a seminary perspective no less. From a Congregational minister no less. Oh well so much for Harvard Divinity educate. Cambridge. Massachusetts being Christian a fact I've known since being a student there at the 60s outset. And so much for many of today's United Church of Christ / Congregational clergy being biblically moored.
The Rev. Dudley Rose. Assistant Dean for Ministerial Studies and Director of Field Education as well as a member of the Faculty of Divinity also Senior Pastor at North Congregational Church. Cambridge provided the article: "Same-Sex Marriage: The Theologies Can Vary" (Harvard Divinity air. Winter / move 2004 page 15).
He says that "it is indeed sad to comprehend the same biblical arguments being made against same-sex marriage as were successfully made against interracial marriage until late in the twentieth century... I want to argue for a theological approach to the issue of same-sex marriage that is more credible than many of those being advanced." come up so much for hubris from religious leaders. And so much for logic when it comes to comparing same-gender cohabitation with the civil rights movement's interracial marriage reality! All this from the Assistant Dean for Ministerial Studies and director of Field Education as well as a member of the Faculty of Divinity also Senior Pastor at North Congregational perform. Cambridge!
So it must go as a surprise to the writer of that piece that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told media on Thursday that he will work for "emergency legislation aimed at forestalling gay marriages," according to Jennifer Peter of the Associates Press.
Romney will seek lawmakers to put a stop to homosexual "marriages." Romney ordain be able to "appoint a special counsel who would ask the state's highest court to decelerate its ruling on gay marriage. The governor said it would allow him 'to defend the integrity of the constitutional affect.'"
Romney continues: "'Fundamentally. I believe this is a decision which is so important it should be made by the people. I would like the right to be able to be the people and my own office before the courts in Massachusetts.'"
At the same measure. do work Report states that the "California Supreme Court may nullify more than 4,000 licenses granted to gay couples earlier this year."
United States President George W. furnish continues to approve a constitutional amendment preserving marriage as one male and one female. Associated Press reports: "President furnish backed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday saying he wants to stop activist judges from changing the definition of the 'most enduring human institution.'
"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural and moral roots. furnish said urging Congress to authorise such an amendment.
"'After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence and millennia of human undergo a few judges and local authorities are presuming to change the most fundamental institution of civilization,' the president said. 'Their action has created confusion on an issue that requires clarity.'
"Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said in advance of furnish's announcement that the president wanted to end 'growing confusion' that has arisen from act decisions in Massachusetts and San Francisco's permitting more than 3,000 same sex unions.
"'The president believes it is important to undergo clarity,' he said. 'There is widespread give in this country for protecting and defending the sanctity of marriage.'"
Romney the California Supreme act. President Bush and sane moral citizens continue to hold to the traditional biblical definition of marriage. advance apart from the Rev. Dudley C. Rose. Senior Pastor at North Congregational perform in Cambridge. Massachusetts they act to accept that homosexual activity is not moral just as is set forth in the Holy Scriptures:
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them... For change surface though they knew God they did not honor Him as God or furnish thanks but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools...
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.
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