So how then does Scripture opposes sodomy?
It does not do so in the same way that the GAFCON
primates have done. Their way is more dignified, sanitized, and polite. Their
tone is one of grief and sorrow, not outrage and offense. I do not think
history will judge this approach kindly. I could be wrong, but I think they
ought to have adopted the tone of Galatians 5:12 (“I wish they would castrate
themselves”) or Philippians 3:2 (“beware of dogs, evildoers, the mutilators of
the flesh”) or Revelation 2 (“You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who teaches my
servants to practice sexual immorality”). If the Bible norms our speech ad verbum as well as as
rem, then these are the sorts of epithets that ought to be
applied to the Katharine Jefferts Schoris and Gene Robinsons of this world by
bishops who claim the name of “apostolic”.
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