Most Christians agree homosexuality is a sin

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[Cincinnati Enquirer] 7 Sep 2007--Not all American Lutherans agree with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America's decision to "encourage bishops to accept gay clergy," as "Your Voice" columnist Debby Rieselman put it ("Lutherans' opening up to gays a loving act," Aug. 25).

The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the second largest Lutheran denomination in America, agrees with the 95 percent of the world's 2 billion Christians - including the largest denomination, the Roman Catholic Church - that homosexuality is a sin. By abandoning that view, the ELCA aligns itself with a small percentage of renegade Protestant groups, such as the Episcopal Church in America (ECUSA). Both it and the ELCA are hemorrhaging members.

Certainly, the majority is not always right. But most of the world's Christian churches - even non-fundamentalist Catholics and Orthodox - hold to the view that homosexuality is a sin. The New Testament says so, and contrary to Rieselman's claim, most Biblical scholars agree.