[net.religion] Homosexuals as ministers ??

caprio@ttidcb.UUCP (Don Caprio) (09/13/84)

Here are some biblical references for the homosexuality issue:

   "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female;
    it is an abomination."
			     Leviticus 18:22  (NASB)

   "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who
    lie with a woman, both of them have committed a
    destestable act;..."

			     Leviticus 20:13  (NASB)

   "For this reason God gave them over to degrading
    passions; for their women exchanged the natural function
    for that which was unnatural, and in the same way
    also the men abandoned the natural function of the women and
    burned in their desire toward one another, men with men
    committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons
    the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not
    see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over
    to a depraved mind, to do things which are not proper,.."

			     Romans 1:26-28  (NASB)


    "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God?
     Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral not idolaters
	nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
	nor thieves not the greedy nor drunkards nor swindlers will
	    inherit the kingdom of God.
     And that is what some of you [the Christians of Corinth] were.
     But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified
	  in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
	  and by the Spirit of our God."

			       1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)