In message 
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Claire  writes
>On 31 Oct, 08:39, Richard Miller 
>wrote:
>> In message
>> ,
>> Claire  writes
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>> >From what I understand of what has been said there are people feeling
>> >they would not be accepted just for having a same-sex orientation
>> >regardless of whether or not they were having sexual relations with
>> >anybody.
>>
>> So you are saying that people whom God made heterosexual should feel
>> free to enjoy sex - at least within marriage - but people whom God made
>> homosexual should not because it is wrong.
>>
>> Why do you think, in that case, that God made such a blunder as to make
>> some people homosexual?
>> --
>> Richard Miller
>
>Of course I do not believe God makes "blunders" but we certainly do
>and I pray that we all can get to a situation of fairness in keeping
>with teaching. Your question goes to much bigger questions though
>which are at the very centre of the Christian faith. How are we saved,
>who is saved and why? It is little wonder then that this issue has
>been so divisive amongst Anglicans and there is talk of a split within
>the Anglican church over it. Those very questions were after all
>behind the Reformation - undoubtedly the biggest and ugliest split in
>Christian history! :-/

At least we have moved on from those times, when the Church sanctioned 
murder and torture in its name, even if not all so-called Christians 
seem to have got the memo.
-- 
Richard Miller