brief thoughts from Sunday
After Sunday's events, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the root issue isn't the morality of homosexuality. It's how the bible is read.
And to this issue, I can see great arguments on both sides. If the Bible is culturally bound, how do we decide what transcends culture? Which parts are literal, if any, and how do we apply these?
Obviously, there are many more questions than these. But I wonder if it isn't easier to demonize someone than to open the very foundation of one's beliefs to questions. There may be a reason that Evangelicals, who believe in sola scriptura, are those most vehemently against the LGBT community. Where other denominations/branches of the church, like Catholicism, Episcopalianism, etc, rely on their traditions/liturgy and many of the church's earlier writings in addition to the Bible, there seems to be a greater openness to inclusiveness.