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Date Posted: 20:20:04 02/28/11 Mon
Author: Lois
Subject: Re: Let bygones be bygones_we are different now
In reply to: Mamusz 's message, "Re: Let bygones be bygones_we are different now" on 16:02:12 02/28/11 Mon

>
>Called to Discipleship: Coming Home in Search of the
>Path
>W. Grant McMurray 2002 World Conference Address April
>7, 2002
>
>�I am not in the habit of telling our delegates how
>they should vote, but I am about to make an exception.
>I request the delegates to this World Conference to
>table or refer all pending legislation on
>homosexuality so that we can avoid actions that will
>be divisive and shape a process by which a broader
>understanding and consensus can be built. I will ask
>the Standing High Council to participate with others
>in looking anew at this matter, seeking issues on
>which we can surely agree (God's
>love of all people, fidelity, the value of family, the
>sacredness of sexuality as part of creation)
>and shaping dialogue in areas where we do not agree
>( (the blessing of same-sex
>relationships, standards for ordination, the
>interpretation and authority of scripture) .
>
>In the meantime, I ask the Community of Christ to be
>willing to live with us on the boundary for a while.
>To do this means that we may not have a policy that
>guides every decision, but we will have to trust the
>Holy Spirit to accompany us in our choices. It means
>that some parts of the church may function differently
>from other parts of the church and there will be
>distinctions that are occasionally unsettling but
>representative of the diversity of our body, both in
>terms of viewpoints and cultures. We recognize that
>certain national governments have requirements that
>our local church leaders in those nations will need to
>respect and interpret in accordance with their own
>cultural understandings.
>
>Because of these many differences, our church stands
>in the midst of much ambiguity and inconsistency. We
>have a twenty-year-old statement from the Standing
>High Council that serves as official guidance, but has
>not been universally adhered to throughout the church.
>I will be totally honest and acknowledge that I have
>myself participated in situations where its provisions
>were not honored. I have been present in conferences
>where persons I knew to be in long-term, committed
>homosexual relationships were approved for priesthood
>in jurisdictions where their lifestyle was known and
>their ministry was accepted. The conflict within me
>was between lawgiver and pastor. To enforce the policy
>would have required me to intervene and prevent the
>ordination of someone whose call to ministry I could
>not deny. This I could not do. This I will not do.�
>
>My comments
>
>The time is not right to discuss homosexuality now.
>It would divide the church. Let�s table it until we
>are able to convince the majority that homosexuality
>is like any other relationship and therefore should be
>recognized as an alternate lifestyle. It isn�t only
>other countries that are against homosexuality. There
>are plenty of people in this country who are against
>homosexuality.
>
>We have a 20-year-old statement, but because I do not
>agree with it, I have totally disregarded it.
>
>And then Grant was gone. And why is that? Even the
>pope doesn�t leave.
>
>Mamusz
>

2 Nephi 12

10 And there shall also be many which shall say, Eat, drink, and be merry; nevertheless, fear God, he will justify in committing a little sin: yea, lie a little, take the advantage of one because of his words, dig a pit for thy neighbor; there is no harm in this.
11 And do all these things, for to-morrow we die; and if it so be that we are guilty, God will beat us with a few stripes, and at last we shall be saved in the kingdom of God.
12 Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after this manner, false, and vain, and foolish doctrines, and shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark;....>

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Re: Let bygones be bygones_we are different now -- George, 20:30:43 02/28/11 Mon