That Christendom would declare homosexuality a sin shows that even after 2000 years, we believers are still struggling to embrace the new covenant of Christ.

Fellow believers, how can we think that the physicalities of gender-pairing and choices of erogenous zones to express sexual intimacy can come against the Godlove (love one another as I have loved you) of the second commandment about loving our neighbours as ourselves?

The scripture says that this commandment is the summation of all new covenant law. If that is so, then the essence of the second commandment (love thy neighbour) is in every law of the new covenant.

And surely we cannot trump the love of Christ with our interpretations of scripture. The scripture says Christ's love transcends all knowledge.

I attend both gay and conservative straight churches. My many testimonies of the life-giving spirit of Christ are that he fills the lives and marriages of gay believers in the same way as in those of heterosexual believers.

I have not heard of one testimony (‘that which we have heard, which we have looked, which we have seen with our eyes and our hands have touched...) about any gay believer being filled with a spirit of deceit, delusion or denial because he was gay. If anyone has one, please share it with me. I would be interested in hearing it.

If our concern is about health issues concerning their sexual intimacy, there is nothing involving anal sex that cannot be dealt with through safe sex practices. Surely those who love each other would not engage in something that would harm either themselves or their spouse. That in itself would bring shame.

There is no shame in gay bonding, it is done out of mutual love, affection, devotion, trust, respect for a shared, committed life together, the same as with heterosexuals. Heterosexuals practice anal sex as well, with no difficulty.

If our concern is about scripture, under the new covenant, we no longer have a relationship to God through regulation but instead directly to the Spirit of the One who lives in each of us.

Christ's love is our regulation. Under the new covenant anything that is a sin is that which comes against the second commandment (about Christ’s love) and the fruit of Christ’s spirit, love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, self-control, faithfulness, gentleness and patience.

Being homosexual doesn’t come against any of these. The bottom line is that the scripture has never said that being homosexual was a sin. Because something was made a prohibition in the old does not automatically make it of itself a sin or a sin under the new. There were many prohibitions in the old covenant that of themselves were not sins.

The Romans is about shameful things such as lust. There is no shame in being homosexual. And homosexuals do not bond out of lust or anything else that is defiling to the Spirit through which we were created.

As I said before, we don’t have a relationship to God through regulation. Standing on legalities to attempt to make a regulation comes against our very faith in Christ. About being holy, under the new covenant our holiness comes solely from the spirit of Christ living within us. We ourselves can do nothing to make ourselves holy.