Letter To Louise

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Above all else, there is the very real threat of ultimate loneliness to one to whom all the normal structures of society – marriage, children, dependents, etc. When the Bible speaks of same-gender sex, it is always talking about heterosexuals who are given over to such lust that they commit lustful acts. With the support of her husband, John Alderton, and the consent of Louise and Louise's adoptive parents, she wrote her story in 1992.

They must be made to realize that honesty and integrity demand they make judgments on the basis of knowledge and not on groundless feelings and prejudice. There cannot be anything in the Bible that says anything about (unknown) homosexuality or homosexual people or acts by homosexuals.

And Richard Hays, although believing homosexuality to be sinful, notes that other sins are in the same list with homosexuality, and concludes, “It is arbitrary to single out homosexuality as a special sin that precludes ordination.

They have no relevance to the reason for the book, and feel as if they've been placed simply to pad out the pages. Actually, same-gender sex is in lists along with greed, envy, lying and gossip and is apparently neither better nor worse than those sins. The church has no analogous special rules to exclude from ordination the greedy or the self-righteous. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.Surely there are some helpful guides for interpreting scripture, some principles that we should follow.

A few years ago a Baptist church in Austin ordained a homosexual, and the leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas asked the church to disassociate itself from the Convention. The question of their union – and celibacy and marriage as well, for that matter – is whether it serves the kingdom of God…. Heterosexual sex acts are also condemned by the Bible whenever they are lustful, but that doesn’t mean all heterosexual sex acts are condemned.

That both main figures experience a few setbacks yet eventually survive is never in question; the story fittingly concludes with an epilogue by Maurice. Then when the commissions have brought their recommendations to the general assemblies/conventions or to their churches, their reports have been voted down. Letter to Louise missed out on being a five-star read because of unnecessary flashbacks into Pauline's childhood. One of the earliest affirmations of this that I found is a statement made by Quakers back in 1963: “… the Quaker committee, after a long study of homosexuality, drew the conclusion: `Surely it is the nature and quality of a relation that matters; one must not judge it by its outer appearance but its inner worth.