{"id":32870,"date":"2025-11-04T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=32870"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:24:26","slug":"the-church-the-bible-and-homosexual-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-church-the-bible-and-homosexual-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church, the Bible and homosexual practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guest post from Dr. Priscilla Turner:<\/em><\/p>\n

Our Church is at odds with the Communion as a whole because decades ago she parted company in sex-ethics with the whole Church Catholic spread out in time and space. She hasn\u2019t enjoyed the godly leadership of learned bishops who had eyes in their heads and brains between their ears about human biology, or submitted their minds to the scriptural witness about the Creator\u2019s ordering of the world. She has tried to reopen an absolutely and completely closed question. She has become an enabler, by making her parishes institutionalised happy hunting grounds for sexual predators. Homosex has never been either in accord with natural law or pleasing to the Author of our human sexuality. And the Church Catholic has always known this.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been no reading of my esteemed friend and colleague Robert A.J. Gagnon’s big book\u00a0The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics<\/i>\u00a0ISBN-13\u00a0\u200f<\/span>\u200e<\/span>\u00a0978-0687022793<\/p>\n

Or of mine with J.I. Packer, shorter, newer, Anglican, more\u00a0theological:<\/p>\n

Holy Homosex?: This and That<\/i> (CreateSpace) A set of theological papers, including one by James I. Packer, presented in original chronological order, a thorough technical discussion:
\nSC 5.5×8.5: ISBN 9781482347869
\nHC 6×9: ISBN 9798872407768
\nEbook: ASIN B07HXV8DFK<\/p>\n

Text may be downloaded and read for nothing at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/dr-priscilla-turner\/<\/a><\/p>\n

When all that is said, we really do not need any texts from any sacred book to know what to think of homosexuality. Hence as a whole no human society or culture in recorded history has ever favoured it.<\/p>\n

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