Should Ethics
Come First?
I am upset. We live in a day when ethical issues bombard us—same-sex marriage, stem-cell research, war in Iraq, Enron-type corporate greed, lawsuits over Ten Commandments monuments, and even the Rev. Jerry Falwell telling Southwestern Seminary students in a chapel service how to vote.
The crisis in ethics is widespread. Roman
Catholics struggle with revelations of clergy sexual abuse and church cover-up,
Episcopalians react to the elevation of a practicing homosexual priest,
Presbyterians and Methodists are divided over the ordination of gay ministers,
and the Southern Baptist Convention prohibits women serving as pastors.
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