The issue of same-sex relations is hotly debated in the churches and has in recent years produced a jungle of publications. Among these Dan O. Via and Robert A. J. Gagnon joined in 2003 to publish Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views.1 They are two very different views, Gagnon claiming that ‘endorsement of homosexual practice represents the key assault today on one of the church’s flanks, human sexuality’ and that if successful ‘the results would be devastating’,2