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Christian Church facing a revolution that is shaking its foundations: the gay revolution

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Image via Wikipedia The Christian church has faced no shortage of challenges in its 2,000-year history. But now it’s facing a challenge that is shaking its foundations: homosexuality. To many onlookers, this seems strange or even tragic. Why can’t Christians just join the revolution? And make no mistake, it is a moral revolution. As philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University demonstrated in his recent book, “The Honor Code ,” moral revolutions generally happen over a long period of time. But this is hardly the case with the shift we’ve witnessed on the question of homosexuality. In less than a single generation, homosexuality has gone from something almost universally understood to be sinful, to something now declared to be the moral equivalent of heterosexuality—and deserving of both legal protection and public encouragement. Theo Hobson , a British theologian, has argued that this is not just the waning of a taboo. Instead, it is a m Image via Wikipedia oral inv

Deadly homosexual revolution

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Image via Wikipedia The Christian church is living in the midst of a cultural “moral revolution” on the subject of homosexuality that will test its commitment to the Gospel. To many onlookers, this seems strange or even tragic. Why can’t Christians just join the revolution? And make no mistake, it is a moral revolution. As philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University demonstrated in his recent book, “The Honor Code ,” moral revolutions generally happen over a long period of time. But this is hardly the case with the shift we’ve witnessed on the question of homosexuality. “The Christian church has faced no shortage of challenges in its 2,000-year history. But now it’s facing a challenge that is shaking its foundations: homosexuality,  … In less than a single generation, homosexuality has gone from something almost universally understood to be sinful, to something now declared to be the moral equivalent of heterosexuality — and deserving of both legal protection and pub