I agree with Steve and Greg. Do you look at someone with lustful eyes? Do you not love your neighbor? Do you ever use the Lords name in vain? I'm praying you haven't murdered anyone as well. All are sins, no ranking or anything. Did Jesus not take in the prostitute in? Did he not bring the tax collector down from the tree and have dinner with him? Isn't that our jobs to be more like Jesus? Are we to stop new comers at the door and ask them their sexual preferences? I don't think that is our job. Our job is to open the bible especially to those far from God. As a Scoutmaster from one LCMS church, I strive to put God in our outings, and in these boys lives. And as a member of an other LCMS church, this whole issue has me concerned. I thought it was the churches discretion to decide to or not to allow gay adult leaders. So don't allow them. There should be other opportunities for the gay leaders to go elsewhere and not be a part of LCMS churches. This decision seems to have put a stiff arm out to the community, gay or not. PS. I love both of my churches, the one I'm a member of and the one I'm the scoutmaster for. I pray all will work out.