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Last week, the Chicago Tribune reported that this new attention to homosexual priests is "a powder keg." "Some liberal priests and parishioners are furious, saying church leaders have begun raising questions about gay priests instead of addressing the church's real and very separate problems: sexual abusers of any orientation and the practice of reassigning abusive priests from parish to parish," the paper said. "Some conservatives are angry too, but for different reasons. They say homosexuality in the clergy is a concern that has long deserved more scrutiny, and that church leaders still are failing to fully deal with it." Don't expect this debate to go away anytime soon.

Oh, and by the way, I don't know how many Weblog readers saw last week's article about how the largely gay Metropolitan Community Churches denomination had avoided becoming part of the child molestation story. But you can forget it now.

More on Rick Warren's parsonage
As noted in several of today's online Christianity Today articles, both the House and Senate have voted to protect tax exemptions for clergy housing allowances. But one more point should be made: while this bill might moot the case over Rick Warren's parsonage exemption, it doesn't end the battle. Some future court, with a similar case, might be just as activist in asking whether the exemption violates constitutional prohibitions on entwining church and state.

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May (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46