William Sloan Coffin once said, Later Coffin went on to say that the issue the church should be addressing--I am paraphrasing--is not whether "homosexual practice" is "contrary to Christian teaching" but why denying homosexuals full citizenship and participation in the church is not "contrary to Christian teaching." Why has it been so difficult to make the case that less than a dozen, mostly obscure, Bible passages should not be allowed to exclude homosexuals full citizenship and participation in the church when the evangelical message of Jesus and Paul focuses on God's unbounded love for everyone?
