THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WHICH I HAVE SENT TO OUR FACILITATORS FOR THE GAY AND LESBIAN VOICES TO ANSWER:

1. How do you deal with the Scriptural position?

the basic Scriptural texts?

2. Are there limits to our acting on our feelings?

3. Do you suppose that Jesus could possibly have taught or exemplified homosexual practice?

4. At what age do you consider homosexual relations to be legitimate?

5. What precisely differentiates a ‘same-sex union’ from a warm, deep, long-lasting and faithful Christian friendship?

6. Is there any sin that is against God alone?

7. The case for the blessing of ‘same-sex unions’ seems to me to be basically humanistic; what are the specifically Christian grounds for it?

8. If feelings validate homosexual relations, do they validate other kinds of sexual activity?

9. If you were persuaded that the Bible is clearly adverse to homosexual practice, would you obey it?

10. Is it not a normal part of growing up to develop one or more passionate attachments to someone of the same sex?

11. If homosexual practice enjoyed the unequivocal approval of church and society, would conscience say anything to you about it?

12. Do you draw any conclusions from the fact that through homosexual relations no woman will ever be sexually awakened or conceive a child?

13. Must the Church validate every lifestyle of those who hold, or aspire to hold, paying positions in it?