After the presentation of a holistic analysis to this damaging problem, we can therefore evidently concur that these destructive problems keep recurring and are ever in use because some persons can’t comprehend that there is no Biblical sex ethic. The Bible vividly displays an assortment of sexual mores especially pertaining to a certain custom, some of which have been altered over years of biblical records.Today,we come to realize that the litany of the forbidden practices in theBible are still presentin many contemporary traditions and customs of today, and many that it allows, we prohibit. Here are a few examples:

·In Deuteronomy 22:13-21, the Bible commands that a bride who is immediately discovered that she is still a virgin be stoned to death.

·In Deuteronomy 22:22, the bible commands that adulterers be stoned to death

·In Mark 10:1-12, divorce is strictly forbidden in both Testaments, as is remarriage of anyone who has been divorced.

·IN Leviticus 18:19, forbids a married couple from having sexual intercourse during a woman's period. If they disobey, both shall be executed.

·IN Mark 12:18-27, it says if a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.

Do you agree with these teachings of the Bible about sex? I leave it for you to judge with reason. The litany goes on: The Bible says clearly that sex with a prostitute is acceptable for the husband but not for the wife. Polygamy (more than one wife) is acceptable, as is a king's having many concubines. (Solomon, the wisest king of all, had 1,000 concubines.) Slavery and sex with slaves, marriage of girls aged 11-13, and treatment of women as property are all accepted practices in the Scriptures. On the other hand, there are strict prohibitions against interracial marriage, birth control, discussing or even naming a sexual organ, and seeing one's parents nude.

Rev. Dr. Mel quietly concludes that instead of selecting one item from an ancient Jewish holiness code and using it to condemn sexual or gender minorities, let's talk together about setting sexual standards that please God -- standards appropriate for heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, standards based on loving concern, health, and wholeness for ourselves and for others.

The Church and its anti gay acolytes are called upon to accede to these inspired lessons that are clearly dissipated without fear of eviction; if not pay sporadic attention to it:

1We all are created in the image and likeness of God, as the Bible tells us (Gen. 1:27), ‘we,’ that includes all homosexual persons.  Who can fathom the ramifications of being created in the image of God! 

2Jesus had nothing to say about homosexuality; however, He had much to say about issues of the heart and morality.

3Rev. Dr. Mel White in one of his Books, What the Bible Says and Does Not Say about Homosexuality clearly states that the Bible is a book about God---- not a book about human sexuality.The Bible is the story of God's love for the world and the people of the world. It tells the history of God's love at work rescuing, renewing, and empowering humankind. It was never intended to be a book about human sexuality.

4Sexual orientation is part of everyone's nature.  It cannot be changed.  It is not a choice. Morton Kelsey goes so far as to argue that homosexual orientation has nothing to do with morality, any more than left-handedness. It is simply the way some people's sexuality is configured. Morality enters the picture when that predisposition is enacted. If we saw it as a God-given gift to those for whom it is normal, we could get beyond the acrimony and brutality that have so often characterized the unchristian behavior of Christians toward gays. McNeill believes: “A general consideration of scriptural data concerning sexual behavior leads to only one certain conclusion: those sexual relations can be justified morally which are a true expression of human love.  The call of the Gospel is not one of conforming passively to biological givens; rather, that call is to transform and humanize the natural order through the power to love.”Theologian James B. Nelson’s concept: “I believe that our best biblical scholarship reaches Walter Wink’s conclusion: ‘There is no biblical sex ethic. 

5The Bible knows only a love ethic, which is constantly being brought to bear on whatever sexual mores are dominant in any given country, or culture, or period. Jesus is not impressed with externals, He looks into the heart. "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love." (Galatians 5:6) Our moral task, then, is to apply Jesus' love ethic to whatever sexual mores are prevalent in a given culture. We can offer reasons, not empty and unenforceable orders. We can challenge both gays and straights to question their behaviors in the light of love and the requirements of fidelity, honesty, responsibility, and genuine concern for the best interests of the other and of society as a whole.

6Homosexuality is not Immoral: Peter Gomes, Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard, says, “The combination of ignorance and prejudice under the guise of morality makes the religious community, and its abuse of scripture in this regard, itself morally culpable.”All ethicists tell us morality is only in persons. Only people are moral or immoral, not spoken words, not actions – only the people behind the words or actions have morality or immorality. We often say some action is wrong, but that is figurative; literally it is the person who is wrong.  If someone takes a gun, points it and pulls its trigger that is an act.  Any morality is in the intent of the gun-handler.  It could be murder, self-defense, target practice, putting a suffering animal to sleep, etc.  It is not the act, it is the mind behind it that God judges.  When the Bible talks about evil, it is talking about persons, not acts. We need to understand clearly: No act performed by anyone is moral or immoral in itself.   That is, no act performed by a homosexual is immoral.  It is simply an act, nothing else.  God is looking on the heart of the person.  "People honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." (Mark 7:6)

7Homosexual men and women are being sinned against by our churches.  Like our society, our churches need to change.  What the church is doing to its own lesbian and gay young people is unforgivable. These men and women grow up knowing about God and afterwards they are infested with funny ideologies that homosexuality is a sin that God hates gays, and that hell is a better resting haven for them.  Then some soon discover their gay orientation in later stage or periods in life and become confronted with their religion and their sexual orientation.  One young man spoke for thousands: "It terrified me to think that God made me just to hate me and send me to hell."  [Dear God!  How long?  How long?]Our churches need to realize that they are acting against God’s words for they are suppose to be the most comfortable haven for gays and lesbians from the insufferable burdens they bear constantly.  But when the world believes that churches despise and condemn homosexuals, those who hate them find encouragement. Our churches are so terribly wrong about homosexuality, just as they were in the sixties about segregation and 150 years ago about slavery. The down-to-earth philosopher Josh Billings’ said, “The longer I live the more I find it necessary to reexamine those things about which I was once most certain.”  I think the church has a lot of reexamining to do.

8The nature of the gay man or lesbian woman should not be thought of in sexual terms.  Why should you have a sporadic thought of what a gay man or lesbian woman is doing in bed with his/her partner?Shouldn’t you be labeled as being weirdly and perversely minded than I? When homosexuality or homosexual is mentioned in any arena or forum, it is rather unfortunate that anti gay persons often focus on sex. According to Bruce Lowe, to do so is to miss the point of the larger context of the relationship.  It is to dehumanize and depersonalize gays and lesbians, caricaturing them only in terms of their sexual activities rather than seeing them as whole persons with lives that include more than sex. Gays and Lesbians are worth much more than sex. In his letter to Louise, Bruce Lowe explains to her that: Louise, people will never think clearly about homosexuals until they think of them as being normal people, just as they think of left-handed people as being normal.  Sadly, “homosexuality” to too many people means “sex perversion.”  For example, “homosexual act,” and “practicing homosexual” and "homosexual lifestyle" are rather common expressions; all mean “sex” in the mind of the one using the expression.  What a perversion in that very common thinking!   A homosexual act is a gay man shaving or a lesbian fixing her breakfast or any of a thousand other acts they perform each day.  A homosexual's interests and activities do not differ from those of others.  Gay men and lesbian women are normal people.  The fact that millions of them walk among us without our knowing their orientation would seem to be conclusive on this point. They are people like us with the same needs and concerns, problems and failures and successes and sorrows and joys that we have.Siker says a good analogy for our thinking about lesbians and gays is in the way the first Jewish Christians related to the Gentiles.  Jews considered Gentiles as unclean, polluted, idolatrous, and sinful—the same revulsion many church people feel for homosexual people.  Before Gentiles could be accepted as Christians, many Christian Jews thought they must first repent of being Gentiles, become Jews and obey Jewish laws such as Sabbath-keeping and kosher food; then they could become Christians.  Today, unfortunately, the gay and the lesbian are often asked to repent of being homosexual before being accepted.  Like the Gentiles, they do not need to repent of their God-created nature; they just need to be accepted the same way everyone else is.

Sagacious Will Campbell observed that we Baptists have apologized to Blacks for our treatment of them in history.  Then he said, “some day we’ll apologize for what we are doing to gay and lesbian Christians and non-Christians.  But not yet, for we ride the waves of culture.”Christians and Christian churches ride the waves of culture!  Surely angels weep!

Pastor Paul Duke has this to say:

Whose fault is this?  It's the fault of us all.  It's the fault of any of us who make jokes about gay people, who insult them with the use of demeaning names.  It's the fault of us who are silent when others do these things or when they publish lies about what homosexuality is.  And it's the fault of us who don't provide a safe place and a caring response to those of homosexual orientation.  Who knows how many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost—to violence, to suicide, to drugs, to promiscuity, to AIDS, to shattered self-esteem, to life forever outside the doors of the church—because we have participated in or by silence colluded with the demeaning and the ostracizing of homosexual people.  In this respect there is blood on the hands of the church.  And that's what has driven me more than anything else to talk with you as I am doing.  I have had a vision of Christ at the judgment asking, “Why were you silent?”  Why has the church abandoned these children of God to despair and to death?  When people are lost and dying by the millions you don't pontificate about sexual morality. You reach out to them, and you give them a safe place, and you listen, you talk, you love with the love of Christ.

Does the church need a scale of preference in order get their priorities straight? We need to reach a consensus about who is right on the issue of homosexuality. Logically thinking about this, it seems absurd to compromise on an issue which is obvious. But what is utterly clear is that we are supposed to love one another, we all who are involved in this debate. These are issues about which we should amiably agree to disagree. We should learn from Christ who identified himself with harlots, tax collectors, the diseased and maimed and outcast and poor. This is enough proof that God sides with the powerless and that he liberates the oppressed. Given this supernal compassion from our creator, no matter what stance we take on gays, the gospel’s essence to love, care for, and be identified with their sufferings is unquestionably clear.

"Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but let us resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of another. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself; but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean." (Romans 14:13-14)