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Episcopal Bishop: Homosexuality Not a Sin
The first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church said Monday that she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender. Katharine Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was interviewed on CNN, one day after she was elected as leader of the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. When asked if it was a sin to be homosexual, she replied: "I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.
Story Continues Below "Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender." The Episcopal Church is deeply divided over homosexuality. Several dioceses and parishes are threatening to break away. When asked about passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions. "The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said. "The Bible tells us about how to treat other human beings, and that's certainly the great message of Jesus -- to include the unincluded." Editor's note:
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