Church's acceptance of homosexuality

Jeff Johnson - OneNewsNow - 6/12/2008 7:00:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';

A new survey finds that Americans are split almost evenly over perceptions of homosexual behavior as either sinful or acceptable to God.

LifeWay Research, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, surveyed 1,201 adults in April to determine their attitudes about homosexuality. Forty-eight percent responded that homosexual behavior is sinful, but 45 percent said that it is not -- basically a statistical tie when the margin of error is taken into account.
 
Rev. Rob Schenck of Faith and Action in Washington, DC, says the U.S. needs a spiritual awakening as it moves in the direction of what he calls "a European-like secularism."
 
"... [This] is a spiritual problem that requires a spiritual solution," he continues. "But there is a little bit more to it than that because we see the problem in the church, as well as outside the church."
 
Schenck is referring to the number of born-again, evangelical, or fundamentalist Christians who consider homosexual behavior to be morally acceptable -- and that number stands at 17 percent, according to the survey. Thirty-one percent of Protestants and 55 percent of Catholics feel the same way.
 
"... [T]he pulpits of this country ... fail their own people when [they] fail to challenge them morally," he argues. "That's part of the Christian life. It's part of building a civilization, even beyond religion -- and the pulpit has an awful lot to do with that," Schenck maintains.
 
The Christian activist says churches that compromise on clear biblical standards like the sinfulness of homosexual behavior cannot expect God to bless their gathering. "... If you want to build an enduring church, you build it on rock-solid preaching, and proper teaching, and instruction and role-modeling," he explains.
 
Although building a church that way is tough and may take longer, says Schenck, in the end one will have a much more solid church that does not easily cave.

Since when the bible says homosexuality is morally acceptable?

Get them to memorize Romans 1: 26-27