Religion & Law

The issue is not whether rejecting the teaching will lead to some un-weaving (of magisterial authority?), but whether the teaching is true or false.  In my judgment, it is false.  See, e.g., Brian K. Blount, ?Reading and Understanding the New Testament on Homosexuality,? in Choon-Leong Seow, ed., Homosexuality and Christian Community 28 (1996); Victor Paul Furnish, ?The Bible and Homosexuality:  Reading the Texts in Context,? in Jeffrey S. Siker, ed., Homosexuality in the Church 18 (1994); Daniel A. Helminiak, ?The Bible on Homosexuality:  Ethically Neutral,? in John Corvino, ed., Same Sex 81 (1999); Patricia Beattie Jung & Ralph S. Smith, The Bible and Heterosexism,? in Patricia Beattie Jung & Ralph S. Smith, Heterosexism:  An Ethical Challenge 61 (1993); Bruce J. Malina, ?The New Testament and Homosexuality,? in Patricia Beattie Jung, with Joseph Andrew Coray, eds., Sexual Diversity and Catholicism:  Toward the Development of Moral Theology 150 (2001); Choon-Leong Seow, ?A Heterosexual Perspective,? in Choon-Leong Seow, ed., Homosexuality and Christian Community 14 (1996); Jeffrey S. Siker, ?Homosexual Christians, the Bible, and Gentile Inclusion:  Confessions of a Repenting Heterosexist,? in Jeffrey S. Siker, ed., Homosexuality in the Church 178 (1994).