Every year in recent memory has brought yet another mainstream, Protestant denomination into the tumultuous debates and traditional compromises of our present age. Whether the debate is in regards to same-sex marriage or openly homosexual clergy, it seems that such controversies and debates have become the norm.

Interestingly enough, each time such a debate occurs, the same appeals are heard from either side: "The Bible says..."; "Scripture clearly teaches..."; "We know from the Bible that..."