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Originally Posted by Timmy
Mind if I jump in and ask a related question?
What do you think about the love that a homosexual couple has (or claims to have) for each other? Is it (or can it be) really love, of the same type that a heterosexual couple has (or claims to have  )? |
Good question, Timmy.
I believe that a homosexual couple can often experience a real bonding, union, and intimacy. There really are people in long-term, monogamous, same-sex relationships.
However, I don't think that means that the church should endorse those relationships. Kathryn Greene-McCreight once said:
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"It does not follow from the church’s freedom to recognize these goods which may issue from homosexual relationships that the church therefore has the freedom to bless such relationships. The church has neither such freedom nor such authority. To insist on this would be to insist on consequentialist ethics, that the ‘ends justify the means,’ so to speak.”
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