Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon is associate professor of New
Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and author
of The Bible and Homosexual Practice. He has recently
uploaded 3 new pieces on his personal website.
We have included the links to those articles here
because they discuss the particulars of church membership,
something that is currently one of the hot-button
issues in Methodism, as well as the Presbyterian church.

-the Good News staff

CHURCH POLICY AS REGARDS HOMOSEXUAL PRACTICE: MEMBERSHIP AND ORDAINED MINISTRY
A 'lost' chapter of my first book (written 1999; publicly released Aug. 2007)

http://robgagnon.net/articles/homosexChurchPolicy.pdf

2) PCUSA Moderator Goes Awry in Her Claims of a "Deeply Pernicious Heresy"

Rev. Joan Gray, current moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., declares that refusing membership to persons who are actively and unrepentantly engaged in homosexual relations have committed a "deeply pernicious heresy." She even goes so far as to charge that the apostle Paul himself would support her view. The real heresy is claiming that regularly engaging in immoral behavior of an extreme sort and in a self-affirming manner is no bar to membership in Christian denomination.

http://robgagnon.net/JoanGrayResponse.htm

3) Calvin on Unity and Sexual Immorality: A Comment on a Presbyterian Coalition Document
Some even in the renewal movements of the PCUSA think that John Calvin would not have sanctioned departure from a Christian denomination that affirmed homosexual practice. Here's why I think that assumption is wrong.

http://robgagnon.net/CalvinUnityImmorality.htm

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