"Scriptures not relevant to Gay Debate" Brazilian Church Says
Church of England Newspaper
March 13, 2008

THOSE PORTIONS of Scripture that condemn homosexual behaviour as sinful are not relevant to the mission and ministry of the Church today, the Brazilian House of Bishops said in a Pastoral Letter on Human Sexuality.

Divine revelation is an unfolding process that makes itself known to the community of believers as it is played out across time, the bishops said following their December meeting in Porto Alegre. There is no single truth, they argued, but a process of culturally conditioned truths that reveals itself through a collaborative" process of the church "using its 'sense of reality' and 'good common sense' formed by faith and by life experience."

"This principle defines that 'God was in Christ reconciling the world in himself.' Anything the Bible says that is not related to the essence of such Revelation is secondary, which means it is part of the culture and customs of those who were instruments of God for writing Scriptural texts," the Brazilian bishops wrote. the rest at Virtueonline