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Pastors Respond to the Homosexual Question

10/17/2015

Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media. This week’s item is from Leadership Journal .net, January 23, 2006, with the headline: “How Should Pastors Respond to the Homosexual Question?” The following are excerpts: “I hesitated answering the homosexual...Read more

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Question: You have promoted books by A.W. Tozer, yet Tozer constantly quoted from Catholic mystics...

Question: Our church has recently introduced an Easter service called Tenebrae...

Question: If a homosexual is not involved in those sinful homosexual acts but still considers himself a homosexual, will he/she go to heaven?

Question: Aren't many of today's Christian leaders conveying a defeatist attitude about Christian values in the United States and other parts of Western Civilization?

Question: I have expressed my concerns about a Spiritual Formation Retreat...

Question: I have been born again for 20-some years and began taking an [exercise] class about four years ago. My teacher is a self-proclaimed gay man....Am I wrong taking lessons from him?

Question (composite): Your comments about AIDS and homosexuality in the March newsletter were inaccurate and promoted bigotry....The homosexuals I know are very loving and kind. We need to love and accept them.

Question: President Clinton’s appointment of homosexuals and lesbians to high office has debased our country. I have never seen a more spiritually sick America! The new Catechism of the Catholic Church says that people are born gay! How would you respond?

Question: In your January ’97 newsletter you said, “Prostitutes and homosexuals destroy the lives of untold millions of young people.” What exactly did you mean?

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