Religion in America: A Christian thorn speaks out
Q. Are homosexual acts sinful?
A. Any relationship that enhances life and lets someone feel more deeply loved, valued, and capable of having more love to give is good. If a sexual relationship is part of that, the sex has to enhance the life of both people. It can't be a power relationship. As with heterosexual sex, an adult shouldn't take advantage of a child. Sex inside marriage is probably ideal, but even sex inside marriage is not always holy. . .Sex without any commitment is my definition of evil. Then you have turned people into things that exist for your gratification.
Q. You say Christianity is dying and that you want to bring it into the 21st century. It appears that forms of Christianity like mainline Protestantism are on the wane, but evangelical Christianity is on the rise.
A. The old answers are the simple ones. They're all in black and white. We're living in a reactionary period of history because we're in a fear period. The 9/11 attacks threw America far back to the right in fear. I grew up a block away from Billy Graham . . . My first cousin defeated Pat Robertson's father running for office. I come out of that same background, but as I got educated, I gave up that fundamentalist relationship to Christianity. I want to make a way on the side of Copernicus, Einstein, and Hawking. If I can't talk about God in terms of the 21st century, I don't think God is worth talking about.
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