Tuesday, May 22, 2007
response to Gay Union on joining the UCC
In World Mag. issue No. 25, 2006
In the article of Gay Union there is a particular church in Dallas, Texas called the Cathedral of Hope. The Cathedral of Hope now has 3,500 members and is widely know as the world’s largest homosexual church. In October 2006 they joined the United Church of Christ which has 1.2 members. The Cathedral of Hope is the fourth largest congregation in the UCC. It ordained Jo Hudson as their senior pastor and also she has been a UCC minister since 1997. The original power is still in the hands of controversial cathedral Dean Michael Piazza, a nationally known gay activist who has been at the church since 1987. Cathedral of Hope abandoned the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches denomination in 2003 during an investigation on the MCC into their financial abnormalities at the MCC church which involved Mr. Piazza. Mr. Piazza decided to resign from his position and then months later he returned to that same position. The conservatives from UCC had ineffectively challenged the denominational leaders from Texas to further investigate Piazza before they would vote on the cathedral. The UCC has been ordaining homosexuals since the 1970s.
I personally find that there should not be any gay churches at all. I disagree because they are being contradictory on the teachings of the Holy Bible and are misleading the youth and even the world on what a true Christian is today and has been since the time of Christ. It says in I Corinthians 6:9 “Don’t you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,” using the New Living Translation. One can see right there in scripture said by God that homosexuals are detestible to God. One of the commands that God gives is for man to be fruitful and multiply. If “we are loving” the same sex then how are we to multiply so even there it is saying that homosexuality is wrong. Genesis 9:7 NLT “As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” I know you all probably have heard that if God wanted Gay people then He would have created Adam and Steve and not Adam and Eve but it is true.
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