Word: sinners
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...matter the degree of genetic influence, behavior is not determined by genetics, and humans always have a choice. From both the Old and the New Testament, Christians believe that there is a right and a wrong choice when it comes to homosexual behavior. Given this perspective, love the sinner but hate the sin makes perfect sense...
...case of Protestant churches in America, the problem is not that they are unable to articulate where they draw the line of tolerance, it may be that they have yet to draw the line at all. “Love the sinner, hate the sin” simply does not make sense when dealing with inherent traits. Nor can churches expect gay and lesbian congregants to continue to accept the second-class membership of being excluded from leadership positions...
...couldn't address a priest except as Father, leaving all my usual orneriness aside, when I saw the collar. Although the gulf grew between my life and the institutional church I still attended, it never occurred to me that I was no longer a Catholic. I was a sinner--that much I knew. But the church, I was taught, was for sinners, not saints. And for all its many faults, I still trusted the church, revered it. Even when it inflicted real pain, when it callously treated women as second-class Catholics, when it wounded good people in bad marriages...
Person of the Week I'M BACK The Chinese government once said he was a "whore" and a "sinner for a thousand generations." But when former Hong Kong Guv and current E.U. Commissioner of External Affairs Chris Patten visited Beijing last week, both sides forgave, forgot and talked about bridging East and West...
DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, sultry German singer and film star billed in the U.S. as the "thinking man's Marlene Dietrich"; of a lung infection; in Berlin. The diva who scandalized church officials with a fleeting nude scene in the 1951 German film The Sinner was best known in the U.S. for her role as Countess Liz in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck...