Gay and the Bible?

Even the Churches are getting more and more on our side; New US church leader says homosexuality no sin Mon Jun 19, 3:50 PM ET Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender. Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year. Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual. "I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said. "Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender." Jefferts Schori's election seemed certain to exacerbate splits within a Episcopal Church that is already deeply divided over homosexuality with several dioceses and parishes threatening to break away. It could also widen divisions with other Anglican communities, including the Church of England, which do not allow women bishops. In the worldwide Anglican church women are bishops only in Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Three years ago when the Church last met in convention, a majority of U.S. bishops backed the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history. The Robinson issue has been particularly criticized in Africa where the church has a growing membership and where homosexuality is often taboo. Jefferts Schori, who was raised a Roman Catholic and graduated in marine biology with a doctorate specialization in squids and oysters, supported the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history. The 52-year-old bishop is married to Richard Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician. They have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 24, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and a pilot like her mother. Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions. "The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said. "The Bible tells us about how to treat other human beings, and that's certainly the great message of Jesus -- to include the unincluded." Last time I checked Idiots, the Bible also says. Men shouldn't shave, we shouln't wear cloths of different material, and eating shelfish is a no no, tampons for women are out. (actually they weren't around) That just explains how much the world as changed and since the Bible was written. You stupid "Probably Southern Babtist who who read only what the Bible says not what it means.. Another thing ever wonder how Adam and Eve created the world?? Just Adam and Eve were "White" we don't know, then where did the African Amercians, Asians, Hispanics, and so on come from??? The Bible is Written as teaching tool for todays society. If we all lived liked the Bible says we should now, we would be in terrible shape. You people don't get it.. Why would you "choose to be gay"??? come on people get a life....I'm gay I have zero sexual attractions to a women.. Aslo if we all having babies like he Bible says, we wouldn't be here anymore because of the way we live in world today.. Yes, I read Lecviticus... Have you???? Guess not since your not LIVING that way .. Did Jeasus ever say anything about homosexuality? He only taught about love. There many many reglions today that are now redoing their believes. Lutheran Churches, Methodist, and many Catholic Churches to name a few. There is research to the fact we don't choose to be gay.. I know someone who is in a family of 7 kids and of those 7 kids 4 are gay? LIke all 4 choose to be gay.. Whatever.. I have a cousin who's gay, and another firiend who has a brother who's gay and he is too.. You know what? Tell me all want, I didn't chose to be gay.. I'll probably won't see you in heaven, you won't be there. AMEN I'm done with this post.. There are just to many people stuck on theold wirttten words of Bible to gays how to live but yet when it comes to their own lives jthey ust ignore it.

Public Comments

1. Amen...
2. Ok, you showed us you can cut and paste. Was there a question hidden in that diatribe somewhere?
3. Thanks for posting that. I feel better about the state of the world after reading it.
4. being gay is a sin and speaks of gays in the bible as an abomination far greater then a sin, maybe you need to look into apostolic churches and there beliefs. it was adam and eve not adam and steve, last time i checked.
5. Read the Book of Leviticus.