In its issue of May 17, 1970, Parade, a magazine supplement carried in ninety-three newspapers, had the feature article “Religious Storm Center: New Sex Code.” It said:

“The United Presbyterian Church’s proposed new sex code​—one so liberal that it practically eliminates sin as a major factor in sexual relations—​is already sending shock waves of controversy through U.S. religious circles. . . .

“Entitled ‘Sexuality and the Human Community,’ and drawn up by a team of experts in various fields, the report repudiates all absolutes regarding human sexuality.

“Among significant sex moralities advocated by the Presbyterian experts:

“Removal of all restrictions against unmarried adults who wish to live together. . . .

“Removal of any stigma that makes homosexuals feel they are in irresolvable conflict with the Christian fellowship.”

Although not endorsing it, the recent United Presbyterian annual assembly in Chicago voted, 485 to 250, to “receive” the report for study by its congregations. To many, their action sounds innocent enough. After all, they did not endorse it. But what a long way they have drifted from the teachings of Jesus Christ when they passively ‘receive for study’ a proposal approving fornication, adultery and homosexuality!

In 1963 a report entitled “Towards a Quaker View of Sex” was completed. Although it was not endorsed as an official view, the Society of Friends (Quakers) did help to finance the publication of the report, feeling that such would be good.

That report ridicules the Bible prohibition of homosexuality, and says: “One should no more deplore ‘homosexuality’ than left-handedness.” “An act which expresses true affection between two individuals and gives pleasure to them both, does not seem to us to be sinful by reason alone of the fact that it is homosexual.” (Revised Edition, 1964, pp. 26, 32, 33, 41)

So it should be recognized that the churches of Christendom, while professing to use the Bible, do not really represent it. That they are deliberately repudiating the Bible itself is evident from the statements of religious leaders themselves.

For instance, the Assistant to the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York expressed church-approved views on New York radio station WQXR on the evening of April 6, 1970, when he said:

“Adultery, fornication, homosexual acts, and certain deviant sexual practices may violate Judeo-Christian standards of moral conduct, but when only adults are involved and there is no coercion and such acts occur in private, they should not be considered crimes. But they are in many instances, and these laws should be repealed.”