When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.
The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.