We are radicals, not conservatives. I am not a conservative Christian. The terminology is all wrong. We are biblical Christians and therefore the far more appropriate term to use is radical. I don't want to 'conserve' our corrupt society -- I want to turn it upside down (Acts 17:6)! The irony is that it is those who call themselves 'progressives' who are in fact the conservatives. They go along with the culture and shibboleths of our day.

As to whether this is a legitimate area of disagreement among Christians, Allberry maintained that it is not.

First is the authority of Scripture. Here Allberry noted that even many non-Christian scholars recognize that the Biblical condemnation of homosexuality is real, not imposed on the text by tradition.

Secondly, acceptance of homosexuality results in the marriage of Christ and the church no longer being imaged by the institution of marriage.

Peter Sefton-Williams, president of the report's drafting committee, said that the analysis "highlights that the state of religious freedom have worsened in 55 countries" -- that is, 28 percent of the globe.

"Only six out of 196 countries have recorded an improvement," yet four out of these six countries still "record a religious persecution ranked as 'high' or 'medium.'"

However, if you sit across the Church leadership's widening cultural gap from the former archbishop of St. Louis, as Alicia Ambrosio, producer and host of Vatican Connections on Canada's Salt and Light Television, evidently does, you see him as stuck in "an ivory tower" cut off from "the messiness of life" that homosexual Catholics contend with.