Does one believe that the Bible is God's Word and that He gets to set the rules for those He wishes to speak for Him; or does culture, political correctness and "the times" allow us to make up, or change, or obliterate the rules whenever it suits us?

I choose the former, believing that the God who created us gets to set boundaries inside of which we are to live for our benefit and for His glory. Imagine a sports contest without boundaries and rules? Life lived without boundaries is chaotic, full of disappointment and despair.

None of this, however, is about us; it's about Him.

In his first letter to Timothy, Paul says that an "overseer," or pastor, is to be "the husband of one wife" and above reproach." (1 Timothy 3:2). Only those who have no intention of following this mandate would claim that it means something other than what it says. But many people have disregarded Scripture in pursuit of earthly agendas.

As for "gay unions," such relationships are not unions, again, according to the Bible, which speaks of a man leaving his mother and father and becoming united to his wife and the two shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24). That doesn't leave any doubt about God's intent for men and women and marriage. Unless one chooses to disbelieve what He said, as many do.

None of this should be used as a basis for hating homosexuals. Just the opposite. But love does not translate into tolerance for those practices God has said are out of bounds.