Letter To Louise

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Forgive the length of this treatise, but I didn’t think I could address this matter adequately with fewer words. The Christian Jews stopped observing the Sab Letter to Louise missed out on being a five-star read because of unnecessary flashbacks into Pauline's childhood.

Women keeping silent in some churches and being obedient to their husbands, as Paul instructed, were not central truths of scripture, but practices that would keep the church and Christianity from being unnecessarily “discredited” in the first century’s culture (Titus 2:5).

The question of their union – and celibacy and marriage as well, for that matter – is whether it serves the kingdom of God….

Even on such a major issue as sexual intercourse between unmarried consenting adults there is no explicit prohibition in either Hebrew Scripture or the New Testament (which John Calvin discovered to his consternation).

Our churches need to change, for the churches ought to be havens for gays and lesbians from the insufferable burdens they bear constantly. She did not see Louise again until the young woman sought her out 22 years later, and they ``with unbelievable ease, slipped back into each other's lives. Then I wrote this letter to Louise, reflecting what I now have come to believe is the truth about homosexuality, what the Bible says and what God wants us to think and do about it. Many committees/commissions have been appointed to study the matter and make recommendations to their general denominational bodies or their churches. I believe that our best biblical scholarship reaches Walter Wink’s conclusion: `There is no biblical sex ethic.

He was an exceptional headmaster and she too was a great teacher, very unlike the teachers we were used to. Schroff acknowledges risks—including the possibility of her actions being misconstrued and the tension of crossing socio-economic divides—but does not dwell on the complexities of homelessness or the philosophical problems of altruism. In 1964, when she was just getting her feet under her as a working actress, she discovered she was pregnant. When people are lost and dying by the millions you don’t pontificate about sexual morality, you reach out to them, you give them a safe place, you listen, you talk, you love with the love of Christ.

In 1956 Hooker presented her findings–that no psychological differences existed between homosexual and heterosexual men–before the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association. If the Bible expresses such a prejudice, then it certainly cannot be wrong to act on that prejudice. You know that for the past decade or so most Protestant denominations have been debating whether to affirm, and especially whether to ordain, homosexuals. Homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection, and, therefore, we cannot see that it is in some way morally worse. I am convinced the Bible supports their loving, committed relationships, that there is no moral evil in such and that society and our churches should affirm them fully.

Still other problems involve their propensity to sexual promiscuity [because they are] divorced from a complete and healthy interpersonal relationship; and the resulting tendency for sexual desires indulged in, but never fully satisfied, to occupy a disproportionate place in their life.

When we know of the hate and the hate-crimes against lesbians and gays, we should not be silent; we have a responsibility to fight it. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. I struggled for a response, realizing suddenly that what I knew about gays and what the Bible says about them was very superficial.