Message #1672

[Martin]

I agree with Jan.

Obviously I'm happy to sign a petition against the Ugandan Anti-Gay legislation, but I can't help thinking that Andy started his thread as an attempt (failed) to establish his credentials as a non-homophobe. 

There is a glaring inconsistency from Christians who invoke the Levitical code to support the idea that God condemns homosexual partnerships, and yet are prepared to throw away the second half of the verse - that those who break this rule must be put to death.  It's usual for Christians who do this to invent 'reasons' why the penalties of the Hebrew law should no longer be carried out, and also quite usual for then to invent other reasons why those laws were justifiably God's requirement at the time they were written.

The truth is, of course, that it has never been right to operate any sort of homophobic prejudice within the law (or outside it), and until the Church realises this, they will continue to work against the Way of Love rather than for it.