can also lead people to look to outer authorities for direction instead of to the inner teaching of the Holy Spirit. At Grace-Calvary, a parish with both gay and lesbian members, I grew increasingly weary of arguing over what Paul and the author of Leviticus may or may not have meant in half a dozen passages written a couple of thousand years ago while I watched living human beings wince at the vitriol they heard from those with whom they worshiped God. Human sexuality was only one of the issues dividing Christians in those days. We could also argue about the inspiration of scripture, the
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