Editorial misses mark
Faith Police? The (Times) editorial writer herself is the one actually policing “faith” here. This church showed the “pinnacle of hypocrisy”? Seems to me (we don’t know all the details, do we?) that this church was doing just the opposite, i.e., trying to live out what they believe regarding homosexual behavior.
“West Wing”? Really? Using dialogue from a TV show as her best argument, which seems to be that the Leviticus passage has no relevancy to today? Is that all she has? Does she not know what the New Testament teaches regarding this issue?
Lastly and most importantly, true love includes truth-telling; grace and truth must go together for true love to be shown, and is challenging for us humans to apply. The “lack of mercy” so decried by the author is just as evident in her own response to this church’s crisis as it is to her judgment regarding the incident.
Perhaps before chiding others for their lack of grace she should first examine her own.
– CHARLOTTE BISHOP, Hixson