Is the Christian church increasingly accepting the homosexual lifestyle?
In recent years the Christian homosexual community has challenged the orthodox teaching of the church. In Europe this has been spearheaded by what has been known as the Gay Christian Movement; in America, by Evangelicals Concerned, the Metropolitan Community Churches, and related homosexual groups. In a November 1989 debate on “The John Ankerberg Show,” Episcopal Bishop John Spong argued that “homosexuality [is] being debated in every major body of Christendomin every one of thema hundred years ago it was not debated. It was not debated because it was the general consensus that it was self-evidently evil… it is being debated even in the Southern Baptist Church. Its being debated today because we are not quite so certain. When youre not certain, brothers and sisters, dont condemn.”1 But wait a minute. What are the underlying reasons for such a debate? Is it because genuine Christians are really having second thoughts, or rather is it because liberal elements within virtually all denom
