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1. Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous:

• It is true that many persons say that homosexuality is sinful, but many other people do not agree. Retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby once stated, “Contemporary research is uncovering new facts that are producing rising conviction that homosexuality, far from being a sickness, sin, perversion, or unnatural act, is a healthy, natural and affirming form of sexuality for some people. Our prejudice rejects people or things outside our understanding.  But the God of creation speaks and declares, ‘I have looked out on everything I have made and behold it [is] very good.’ (Genesis 1.31)  The word of God in Christ says that we are loved, valued, redeemed, and counted as precious no matter how we might be valued by a prejudiced world.”
• Dr. William Johnson, a minister and religious scholar, wrote that “we need to acknowledge that the Gospel writers and the missionary Paul did not possess the psychological, sociological, and sexological knowledge which now inform our theological reflections about human sexuality. They knew nothing of sexual orientation or of the natural heterosexual-bisexual-homosexual continuum that exists in human life...We now know that homosexuality is part of the created order, same-gender sex acts having been observed in a multitude of species...”