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b'Quotations from "Gay daughter sent bishop back to Scriptures"
By Bishop Richard Wilke
Aug. 21, 2019 | WINFIELD, Kansas (UM News)

That is why the current divide in our United Methodist Church over homosexuality breaks my heart. I have given my life to revitalizing the church and bringing people to Christ. I want to say that allowing this issue to separate us seems incomprehensible....

The young woman before us that night wanted to be loved and accepted, but she wasn\\u2019t a troubled, tortured soul. She was happy and whole, and Julia and I believed that her sexual orientation was how God had made her.

Still, I knew I had some work to do. I needed to reconcile my commitment to scriptural authority with loving and accepting my daughter.

There is a reason many Bibles use red letters to set Jesus\\u2019 words apart: The color highlights their importance relative to the surrounding text.

Remember, too, that Jesus is the Word made flesh. He is Lord, even of the Bible!

Neither Jews nor Christians obey the Holiness Code today. Christians eat shrimp because Jesus said, \\u201cIt is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.\\u201d


But Jesus and his ministry concern me most. Time and again, he deliberately focused on the marginalized. He healed the crippled, the demon-possessed and the sick. He performed miracles in the synagogue, although religious leaders scolded him that the labor and healing violated the Sabbath. A desperate woman, bleeding for years, an outcast, touched the hem of Jesus\\u2019 cloak and was healed. Our Lord forgave the prostitute who wept at his feet. He cured a Roman soldier\\u2019s servant, though the Jews despised the oppressive Roman occupation.

Samaritans were even more detested than the Romans. Yet Jesus upended all convention when he cast a \\u201cgood Samaritan\\u201d as the hero of his parable.

The hatred and condemnation of others all seems to be the very opposite to both the action and the teachings of Jesus. He laid the groundwork for the church to accept Gentiles when he said, \\u201cI have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.\\u201d

Again and again Jesus placed kindness and acceptance over custom and social norms. \\u201cLove one another,\\u201d he commanded, \\u201cas I have loved you.\\u201d He also emphasized hospitality: \\u201cWhen you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind. And you will be blessed.\\u201d

If we are to be Christ followers, how can we reject the LGBT community in light of Jesus\\u2019 ministry?


Nothing in my 70 years of ministry would lead me to believe that The United Methodist Church would or should divide over these few misunderstood passages of Scripture. I am offering this message because, I believe that Jesus is Lord of the Bible, and all of his teachings direct us to create a loving and inclusive community of faith. I ask for your prayers for the church. Lift your voice in affirmation of our great tradition and help us to find a way forward to heal, and not divide.

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Marcionism:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09645c.htm

Appeal to Pity:
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/39/Appeal-to-Pity

Conflating the Jewish civic, ritual, and moral laws:

\\u201cWe must therefore distinguish three kinds of precept in the Old Law; viz. \\u2018moral\\u2019 precepts, which are dictated by the natural law; \\u2018Ceremonial\\u2019 precepts, which are determinations of the Divine worship; and \\u2018judicial\\u2019 precepts, which are determinations of the justice to be maintained among men.\\u201d
Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
What is the difference between the three types of law found in the Mosaic Covenant?
Moral Law \\u2013 this is law which reflects God\\u2019s character and his design of this world. Examples of this law would include but are not limited to commands regarding murder, children honoring and obeying their parents, adultery, covetousness and theft.

Ceremonial Law \\u2013 this was a brand-new set of laws that God gave to Moses that were specifically for the nation of Israel as a theocracy. These laws dealt with the qualifications for priests, requirements for how and when to perform sacrifices, cleanliness laws, dietary laws, festival laws and tithing laws.

Civil(Judicial) Law \\u2013 All nations must have civil laws to help deal with disputes between their citizens as well as to enforce the morals of the people. While not all of the Mosaic civil laws dealt with moral issues, a great deal of the Civil laws for Israel did in fact deal with how to punish or make restitution for violation of God\\u2019s moral laws. So, when we examine the Old Testament to search for the moral law of God \\u2013 we must look for moral laws that stand alone as well as civil laws which prescribe punishment and restitution for breaking God\\u2019s moral laws.
( https://biblicalgenderroles.com/what-is-the-distinction-between-the-moral-ceremonial-and-civil-laws-of-the-old-testament/ )


Wesely\'s quadrilateral \\u2013 Scripture, Tradition, Reason, and Experience.
\\u201cThe resulting four components or "sides" of the quadrilateral are (1) Scripture, (2) tradition, (3) reason, and (4) experience. For United Methodists, Scripture is considered the primary source and standard for Christian doctrine. Tradition is experience and the witness of development and growth of the faith through the past centuries and in many nations and cultures. Experience is the individual\'s understanding and appropriating of the faith in the light of his or her own life. Through reason the individual Christian brings to bear on the Christian faith discerning and cogent thought. These four elements taken together bring the individual Christian to a mature and fulfilling understanding of the Christian faith and the required response of worship and service.\\u201d
http://www.umc.org/what-we-believe/wesleyan-quadrilateral


The Catechism of the Catholic Church 2357
Chastity and homosexuality

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,140 tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered."141 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P85.HTM )'