Bailey and Perry planted the seed of sin of Homosexuality
Homosexuality and the Churches. Until the latter half of the twentieth century, the churches gave little public attention to the phenomenon of sexual attraction and sexual behavior between members of the same sex. The traditional view of most ecclesiastical bodies condemned homosexuality, finding justification for the condemnation in natural law and in such biblical texts as Genesis 19:4–11; Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Romans 1:27 . The first sign of a re-evaluation of the issue appeared in 1955 with the publication in England of Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition by Rev. Derrick Sherwin Bailey , an Anglican priest. Bailey challenged the Church’s traditional view with current findings from the behavioral sciences and a reinterpretation of relevant biblical passages. His work broke ground for a number of studies published in the U.S. which were sympathetic to gay and lesbian concerns from a religious point of view, beginning with H. Kim...