Religion & Law

Another MOJ reader offered this comment to Greg's reply to my response to his original post on the ELCA's recent decision to allow parishes to allow noncelibate homosexualis in committed relationships to the pulpit:

"Sisk asks: And what Christian group of any significance size and venerability has accepted a revision of traditional church teaching on sexual morality, thereby setting aside the complementarity of male and female as a guiding principle for sexual relationships, while still maintaining orthodox beliefs on the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Christ, on His Church, and on the Scriptures?

"The answer to this is easy: All of them except one. To my knowledge, every single Christian Church other than the Catholic Church is accepting of the use of birth-control between married couples. And there is a very strong argument to be made that in accepting such a use of birth-control these churches have accepted "a revision of traditional church teaching on sexual morality" that is no less radical than the revision entailed by condoning homosexual sexual acts and partnerships....

"Surely Sisk would agree that many of these birth-control-accepting churches retain recognizably orthodox beliefs on the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ, etc..."