found...

So, as the dust settled on the Smackdown (see previous entry below), I followed a link on a comment left after my last comment, and found the following great thought- it deals with an issue we are currently working through, so I thought I'd link it. Following the actual comment (on its original page) is an email exchange between the writer and a theology professor that ends up changing the authors mind on homosexual marriage... fascinating stuff. It's got a lot of big ol' seminary words, but you can handle it. :)
Anyway, the quote... from here:

Over the summer I engaged in an ongoing dialogue about gay marriage with a New Testament scholar that I know in Toronto. I emailed him the post I wrote on July 28, 2005 entitled, "When Justice Conquers Holiness: Why I Support Gay Marriage." Over the course of this debate I have decided to recant my position. The thing is, recanting is something I didn't want to do. I have a strongly negative emotional reaction to the idea of saying that homosexuals can't marry. The idea that God would not allow homosexuals to marry just doesn't make any sense to me. Yet that seems to be what the texts tell us. And so, as much as I kick and scream against it, I have decided to submit to another authority.

Over the course of this discussion I have realised how important it is to disagree with God if we are to be faithful to God. There are all sorts of tensions around the character of God as God is revealed in scripture and we should be careful not to resolve those tensions too easily. If I worship a God that I always agree with, a God that always makes sense to me, then I am in grave danger of worshipping a God created in my own image. If I am worshipping a God that is other than me, a God who possesses the qualities that Christians ascribe to God, then it is understandable that a finite creature like myself would sometimes not understand God, and sometimes strongly disagree with God as well. It is by submitting to a God that we do not always agree with that allows us to be made into God's image -- instead of making God into our own images.

For those who are interested, I have included the email exchange that went on between my prof and I.

the email exchange

(ED Note: I believe (since you didn't ask) that we should move to a more European system- civil unions for all and Church marriages for those who choose them. I am in favor of civil unions for homosexuals. I see that as a separate question from "are same sex sexual relationships allowable for Christ followers?")