Press Release from Loving Expansively in The Church (LETCH)

LETCH enthusiastically embraces Bishop Gene Robinson’s interpretation of Romans 1:22-27.

We would also point out that LETCH scholars have made similar points regarding Jesus’ words in Matthew 6:27-28.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

We know that Jesus’ injunctions against heterosexual “promiscuity” (actual and imagined) cannot be applied accurately to heterosexual men because heterosexual men are created with the expansive desire to include as many women as possible in their physical expression of love.

Jesus’ proscriptive words clearly apply to homosexual men who, acting against their own created orientation, engage in, or imagine engaging in, sexual activity with women.

In this sense, Jesus’ words in Matthew 5 ought to be seen as consistent or corollary with the principle St. Paul articulates and Gene Robinson reveals in Romans 1:22-27. It is unnatural, a perversion if you will, for men who are heterosexually oriented by virtue of creation to have sexual relationships with other men. Likewise, according to Jesus, it is unnatural, a “perversion”, for homosexual men to lust after or engage in expansive sexual activity with many women.

LETCH believes that all men must act in accordance with the created order

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