It is sad that most professing "christians" are almost entirely informed by the world versus God's Word in their almost total lack of understanding of sexuality, e.g. the brainwashed use of the "gay" and "homosex-" frauds only used by the worldly and deluded. As the Nazis & Soviets knew, who actually conquered us without our realizing it, those who control the definitions of terms have already won the debate, as is the case with sodomy where most professing "christians" are fools for the world and only REact to evil, such that it becomes their master & guide, failing to proactively ACT Biblically as Jesus did, He Whom they claim as their Lord without acting accordingly where like with the Pharisees it's far more comfortable to embrace tradition and the world and ignore God's Word and just roll over and go to sleep like the Scouts have done, pretending the devil for whom they're whoring won't destroy them. God save us. See "The gay invention" at www.touchstonemag.com & www.DrJudithReisman.org for what the devil & his henchmen have been up to in seeking the Church's destruction while LCMS & others have been sleeping, pretending our church building techniques are even remotely as effective as Jesus's. I'm new to LCMS and have simply been appalled at the incredible spiritual laxity; I don't know which is ignored and despised more, God HImself, His Word, or the faithful word of His servant Luther, kind of a 3-way tie for last place. God save us. If I weren't a charismatic and encouraged by the Holy Spirit in ways LCMS despises and rejects I'd be undone by such tragedy, but I rejoice how He is so faithful even when we're not, though we only dare violate 2Tim 2:12-13 at our dire peril: "if we endure together we shall also reign together; if we deny Him, He also shall deny us; 13 if we are faithless, He remains faithful [to HImself]; to deny Himself He is not able." Most professing "churches" today are a lot more interested in belittling God to make man feel good about his sin than in taking God seriously when He said He will build His Church [His Way, not ours] in Matt 16; how they are so deluded as to even pretend they can even begin to do so without the charismata (G5486, Rom 11:29 for irrevocable are the gifts and the calling of God) & pneumatika (G4152, Rom 1:11 for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established), He demands in His Word in Paul's Epistles is incredible. Why surely we know better than Paul considering how much better a job we've done in ruining and shrinking God's Church & mission than he! God save us.