Commentary: Avoiding sexuality issue is not true peace

[Shana A]

Commentary: Avoiding sexuality issue is not true peace

Apr. 11, 2008

http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00070.html

A UMNS Commentary By Steven E. Webster*

Many voices from across The United Methodist Church are suggesting there is no way forward in the 36-year-long dialogue about the role and status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the church. Declaring an impasse, these voices call for an end to this dialogue in the name of peace and unity.

[Natasha]

Avoiding sexuality issue is not true peace

http://www.wfn.org/2008/04/msg00070.html
4/12/2008

"Yet we undercut these same goals when we continue to: 1) reject the gifts and graces of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and their allies; 2) turn off a younger generation that views the Christian faith as "anti-homosexual;" 3) push LGBT youth into poverty and homelessness as families reject them because church and society stigmatizes LGBT persons; and 4) fail to address the role that ignorance and stigmatization of homosexuality (and other sexualities) play in the global AIDS epidemic."