Homosexuality is being hotly debated today in church and society. When the case is made for the legitimacy of same-sex love, critics rush in with three main defenses. (1) It is contrary to nature. (2) It is condemned in Scripture. (3) Its acceptance would ruin society. The most interesting thing about these three arguments is that they have been used in the past to defend what is now universally regarded as evil. In American history, slavery, segregation, and …showed first 75 words of 2720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2720 total…and as persons made in the image of God, we will look back over our past and wonder in sad amazement why it took so long. And yet those bitter tears of regret for all the suffering and wrong of the past will not compare to the tears of joy we will share with one another in the knowledge that one more oppression "has passed into the ranks of a universally stigmatized injustice and tyranny."