A social service agency in Charlotte, North Carolina that serves people who are homeless is refusing to accept gay volunteers from a local chapter of the Metropolitan Community Church. Why? The director of the Charlotte Rescue Mission, The Rev. Tony Marciano II, told the press:
"We cannot endorse a church that openly teaches that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle."
Rev. Marciano did say he would be happy to continue taking financial contributions from the gay church. Maybe money is the great social equalizer after all.
What does Jesus say about homosexuality? Nothing, actually.
But Paul’s letter to the Galatians reminds us that:
“There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Ga 3:28 NRSV).
Rev. Marciano seems to have missed this part of the Christian message.
