Mike wrote:
Explain how it was misuse. Or are you assuming they were merely praying to be seen, a big assumption indeed?

"And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied."
-[URL=http://kingjbible.com/ezra/9.htm]]]Ez 9:3[/URL]

Now, with 24/7 handheld access to 170,000,000,000 pornographic pages, the majority of your 18+ year old young men need to have very solid plans to enter Holy Matrimony.

Part of the puzzle why denominations are ordaining gay preachers is this pervasive pornography.

Meanwhile, same-sex couples have been observing our sexual mores for decades and notice that the Christian fertility rate has plummeted. Then they put 2 and 2 together to find that Christian marriage and their relationships now have the same goal: mutual pleasure (not a newborn).

What's more, how can a preacher say "no" to these couples who desire exclusive use of their alimentary systems, when he's using both of his wife's systems: reproductive and alimentary? If he said "no" he'd be a hypocrite.

Does ubiquitous Christian sodomy have consequences? Apparently so. It's toppling entire denominations with more yet to fall (e.g., UMC).

Rentor wrote:

The SBC is admitting they're running out of options:

"[URL=http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=1205]]]On The Scandal Of Southern Baptist Divorce[/URL]":

"WHEREAS, We have been prophetic in confronting assaults in the outside culture on God’s design for marriage while rarely speaking with the same alarm and force to a scandal that has become all too commonplace in our own churches; [now, therefore, be it]

"RESOLVED, That we express our further conviction that a denomination defined missiologically ought to recognize how damaging Southern Baptist accommodation to the divorce culture is to our global witness for Christ." (2010)

The SBC [URL=http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=441]]]identified[/URL] this small tsunami over 100 years ago:

"RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this body that the Legislatures of the States represented in this Convention be requested to discourage this great and growing evil by more stringent laws regulating the same." (1904)

Mike wrote:
"This widespread ecclesiastical disobedience threatens to tear apart the covenant which holds The United Methodist Church together. It is also a direct challenge to the clear teaching of Scripture. ..."
Interesting how "a direct challenge to the clear teaching of Scripture" is added as an "also."

John UK wrote:
And there is no imaginary purgatory, to have a second chance. The two eternal destinations are HEAVEN and HELL, and they are fixed. The only folks who get to heaven are those who entered by the strait gate. All others, no matter what denomination or no denomination are destined for the lake of fire, and that without remedy.