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...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...THIS POINT, one might have wished Gomes to have clarified his position somewhat; it would have been better if he had seemed to rely less on such awkward and incredible doctrines as the "fall," the "sacrifice of Christ," "Grace," or "the hope of glory," since there seems to be something inconsistent about a faith which so enthusiastically accepts the promises of God while so vigorously rejecting the authority of his moral precepts, whereas both seem to spring from the same source...
...GRATIFIED, therefore, that Gomes has at last affirmed in public that position which it has for a long time apparently pleased him to assume in private. The Reverend Peter J. Gomes has spoken, and I cannot but marvel at the new expansiveness of that liberty with which Christ has set us free...
...reformation and compassionate aid from sisters and brothers in the Christian community and outside it. I have been compassionately ministered to by lesbians and gay men. I have experienced homosexual Christians who have vibrantly witnessed to their trust and faith in God and lucidly expounded the meaning of Jesus Christ for their lives and those of others...
Perhaps I do think I know what's morally right. Another Christian virtue, however, humility, causes me to recognize my own limitations. For we all remain defect-ridden and fallible. Catholic especially emphasize Christ's dictum to "judge not lest you be judged." Even the prudential judgments of the popes, while important, can be mistaken...