by Bruce J. Simpson

About the author: Bruce J. Simpson is archbishop of the Independent Western Rite Orthodox Catholic Church.

One of the most difficult and contentious conflicts in Christianity has been, and continues to be, the homosexual and the Church. All one has to do is turn on the television and listen to any of the televangelists, or for that fact the local Sunday pulpit, and one can find a constant, impassioned theme on the evil and sinfulness of the gay and lesbian population. These messengers of God’s love are quite content to put the homosexual in the same category as murderers, adulterers, child molesters and worse. Why? What motivates not only right- wing fundamentalists but some mainline churches such as Roman Catholicism? From where does this vicious, self-righteous homophobia stem"

Using the Bible to Justify Persecution