How to define morality?
Adee was challenged. “For many of us this is not a question at all of a disembodied head or how to deal with our sexuality,” said Schlossberg. “The issues of sexuality and children dying are both moral questions, issues that raise the question: How do we define morality?” The Covenant team members – Stuart, Block, Adee, Mitzi Henderson of More Light Churches and Pam Byers of Covenant Network – said the Bible does not define homosexual activity as immoral. The Coalition team members – Schlossberg; Parker Williamson, executive editor of The Presbyterian Layman; Coalition Co-Moderators Jerry Andrews and Anita Bell, and Coalition Executive Coordinator William Giles – said it does. Stuart argued that the writers of the New Testament did not understand homosexuality. “We have new knowledge and understanding. People who are gay and lesbian are as naturally gay and lesbian as I am heterosexual.” Therefore, Stuart said, the New Testament admonitions against homosexual relations are wrong. “Some
