What, then, about issues of justice more generally conceived? A recent online editorial from the Religion News Service echoed popular sentiment with its assessment that modern-day debates about homosexuality mirror the church’s debates, and splits, over issues of slavery in the nineteenth century. On the one hand, there are those claiming the moral high ground of equality and justice—even if it means discounting some of what the Bible says—and on the other hand, there are those claiming that the
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