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Let's not insult the pigs...

Trump's actions have harmful consequences and I think the Church needs to be far more anxious about things like that

Sorry but I really don't understand this argument that SSM is somehow a 'threat ' to or undermines straight marriage. I mean, it's not like I woke up the morning after it was legalised in the UK and said to my wife, "Right, that's it! The gays can get hitched so I want a divorce." In fact I...

You can have the voluntary submission of the human Christ without violating His Divine equality nor His Divine immutability

No. But that's kind of my point: if we don't ask about who's in bed with whom, then why do we make such a song and dance about what the answer might be? Surely there are more important things for the Church to be stressing about than what two consenting adults, causing no harms to anyone else...

I too would distinguish between voluntary submission during the Incarnation and subordination generally. I would also distinguish between the Divine and Human Natures within the Incarnate Christ: the voluntary submission pertains to the latter only and thus existed exclusively within the...

So, does your minister interrogate his flock about their sex lives at the communion rail?

Agreed. They have an H-bomb, they have the missiles to deliver it at least to Japan, and there is a clear escalation in their conduct.

What, even celibate ones who are committing no sin?

I am asking what 'Good News' you have for them concerning relationships that is comparable to that which you would offer a single heterosexual

I did. I am challenging you on it

Behaviours. But what about inclinations?

How would you counsel a young homosexual to wait until they find their mate?

Again, I would contest the extent to which an orientation as opposed to an action is a sin: we all have genetic predispositions to this or that as a product of the Fall, none of which amount to sins in themselves. For instance, I have a family history of alcoholism. That in itself is not a sin...

So why single this out?

Show me where they state that an orientation is a sin

The issues are connected and double standards abound

Exactly. What does a repentant divorcee look like, I wonder: taking the old spouse back?

Well, here's an admission from their own website, hedged about with the usual "Well, lots of other people do it so that's alright then" 'justifications ': Whose Position on the Trinity is Really New?

I don't have a problem with them saying He is the Son of God. It's the eternal subordination that is problematic.