Sue Bolton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spong wrote:
>> There are exceptions of course. They are happy to receive or pay >> interest, they don't agree with slavery, they can enjoy prawns or >> ham - especially at Christmas. It is just that they have a bit of >> trouble with loving their neighbours. > This is a strawman argument, as there would be very *very* few in the > UC who would claim that we are not expected to love our neighbours, > including G&L!!! I think it is true that the vast majority of Christians would *say* we must love gay and lesbian people. Unfortunately, it does not always translate to action - and I think this is Spong's point. I understand discrimination to be incompatible with love. So, when a person has has all the appropriate qualifications for ordination, and a group of people denies or challenges that ordination simply because the individual to be ordained is gay or lesbian, this is discrimination and therefore the group of people is not loving the individual regardless of how much they say they are. Cheers, Jonathan __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
