Homosexuals Targeting Military, Churches

Massachusetts Rep. Martin Meehan (D) is criticizing a Pentagon document that lists homosexuality among a list of mental disorders. Meehan says, "[It's] more than 30 years after the mental health community recognized that such a classification was a mistake." The American Psychiatric Association was forced to re-classify in the face of threats by militant homosexuals in 1973. Our military, however, should not back down under threat. The U.S. military does not march to the beat of the politically correct drummers. Some church leaders, unfortunately, do. The Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A has just voted to continue to name homosexual bishops and affirm same-sex unions. The Episcopalians' House of Deputies defeated a compromise resolution that would have halted for three years any more such actions. Canon David Anderson of the American Anglican Council said the convention action will lead the U.S. Episcopal Church out of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) also dealt with this topic in a resolution. Delegates meeting in Birmingham, Alabama voted to keep regulations against homosexual relations on the books but to allow local option for enforcement. This renders the restriction meaningless. Robert Gagnon, a New Testament professor at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, said the PCUSA had just reached a "transition point" that breaks from Jesus' teaching on the sanctity of marriage. We can only deplore these developments in the churches and offer our sincere prayers for those in these embattled denominations who are fighting a noble fight to defend the consistent teachings of biblical Christianity.