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ABC Australia Fact Checker actual lies

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Tony Abbott is completely correct on the concept of traditional marriage being between a "Mum and a Dad." The entire population would agree except a minority who themselves are homosexual and obviously would seek to fin minor variations of marriage throughout different cultures in order to say marriage historically is a free for all.  ABC Fact Checker quotes Yale University's John Boswell and his book entitled: Sex Unions In Premodern Europe. He claims the use of the word friend is misunderstood and really means lover. With regards to Christianity he claims a lesbian relationship between Ruth and Naomi , David and Jonathon, he reinterprets a spiritual fraternity as a homosexual relationship. The author died of AIDS. All of his examples are questionable, minor and insignificant. Writing in The Christian Century magazine, the Candler School of Theology 's historian of theology Philip Lyndon Reynolds expressed "profound problems" with Boswell's pos

Homosexuality and the Bible — The Rejectionist Approach

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Image via Wikipedia Luke Timothy Johnson thinks that the Christian crisis over homosexuality is not really about sex at all.  Instead, it “has less to do with sex than with perceived threats to the authority of Scripture and the teaching authority of the church.” In reality the crisis is about both sex and biblical authority , as Johnson himself makes clear. Johnson  serves as Robert R. Woodruff Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology  at  Emory University .  He is one of the most influential Roman Catholic scholars in the field of biblical studies. In “ Scripture & Experience ,” published in  Commonweal  magazine, Professor Johnson presents what can only be described as a rejectionist approach to the Bible ’s teachings on homosexuality. This rejectionist approach means that Professor Johnson directly rejects what the Bible teaches on this issue, and does so with a boldness shared by few others in this debate. He accepts that “the Bible nowhere speaks pos