re: Serious Conversation about lesbian/gays (allowed) in church

I'm late to the party, but I wanted to add this:

Telling anyone that they don't belong at church or can't come would be the equivalent of telling a gravely sick person that they aren't allowed at the hospital.

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Mark 2:16-18

When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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Jesus came for the sinners. He'd be more likely to not associate with the church leaders who made that "rule" than he would be the gayest person in town.

Jesus loves gay people. We're all "sick". We're all sinful and no better than anyone else.