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Lutheran magazine discusses gay love

PHILADELPHIA--The largest magazine of any denomination in the country has published an article advising gay people to express their sexuality in longterm relationships of love and fidelity.

That is the conclusion of Dr.

LeRoy H. Aden, a psychologist and professor of pastoral care at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia. His article

appeared in the May 2 edition of The Lutheran, biweekly magazine of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). Several U.S.denominations are larger than the 3-million-member LCA, but no official church magazine Circulation than The Lutheran's

600,000.

has a larger

Dr. Aden's article is a remarkable one for an official church journal, in that he finds

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any circumstances at all in which gay sexuality can properly be expressed.

He does not contend that homosexuality isn't unnatural, since he views heterosexuality as God's intention of all humankind.

But, he concludes, "The church cannot expect the homosexual to change...If homosexuals find abstinence unnatural, they should live in an enduring relationship of love and

commitment with one other person.....

"For whether we are male or female, homosexual or heterosexual, we need to regain the ability to give ourselves to a person in a relationship of lifelong fidelity. It is only in that kind of context that human sexuality can move toward its fullest realization and can achieve its deepest meaning....

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"Love between persons of the same sex can be just as deep. tender, stable, intense and enduring as love between a man and a woman," he declared in the article, entitled "Homosexuality: What Can the Church Say?"

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