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Response to Tony Jones on Homosexuality

Just over a week ago Tony Jones asked a ques­tion:

OK, I’m seri­ous about this. I’m not even being snarky. Really.

If you are one who thinks that homo­sex­ual sex is sin­ful, can you please explain to me WHY a gay or les­bian per­son who is in a long-term, monog­a­mous rela­tion­ship would not be able to whole­heart­edly fol­low Christ?

My only stip­u­la­tion is this: You may not quote one of the six verses in scrip­ture that men­tions homo­sex­u­al­ity. Instead, you must use the­o­log­i­cal and/or philo­soph­i­cal argu­ments to attempt to con­vince me that when you have gen­i­tal con­tact with some­one of your own gen­der, it some­how inhibits your rela­tion­ship with Christ.

Thank you in advance for your civil­ity in answer­ing this question.

With­out appeal­ing to the ‘six clob­ber verses’ it seems to me that any argu­ment — ‘the­o­log­i­cal and/or philo­soph­i­cal’ - against a ‘long-term, monog­a­mous (homo­sex­ual) rela­tion­ship’ would … (Read more)