Motion to Reframe

While watching the CWA (ChurchWide Assembly) for the ELCA today I read the captions (sound off while at work) a man who was attempting to compare the homosexuality debate with the inclusion of gentiles into Jewish Christianity in the early church. This is one comparison I have not thought about before. Is it similar enough to make a legitimate comparison? Are the two examples on level playing ground?

Perhaps the issues are too different. One involves the inclusion of a different culture and ethnicity of people while the other involves the inclusion of a different lifestyle of people from varied cultures and ethnicities. Each situation offers groups playing by their own sets of rules devised from separate standards.

Should Christians, specifically Lutherans, be more exclusive? Perhaps the issue is more properly stated: Should we be more restrictive of the benefits of being part of the church?

Regardless of whether you believe homosexuality to be morally right/wrong or a sign of the variety/degradation of society, we all have to live together. Would that we focused more on those issues (community) than black/white, rationalized proofs of who is correctly holding the absolute truth.