We have abandoned Sabbath day worship and replaced it with Sunday. The commandment about not killing does not embrace the birth control and abortion debates of our day, nor does it embrace our modern ability to continue life artificially long after meaningful existence has passed. The Bible, as I have noted previously in our correspondence, has been used to justify slavery, segregation, war, second class status for women and to oppose Galileo, Darwin, vaccinations and many other now-abandoned causes. So when we today dare to speak ethically on critical modern issues we must do more than quote ancient authorities whose integrity has been compromised. When I explore these questions, I come to the conclusion that truth is, in fact, an ultimate good.
Ignorance is, therefore, an ultimate evil.
Not to recognize the difference or to encourage the continuation of ignorance in place of truth becomes itself evil. For example, we now know that skin pigmentation is the result of the body's adaptation to the sun. It has nothing to do with worth, intelligence or any other intrinsic human quality. So to use skin pigmentation as a basis for judgment of one's ultimate human worth is both objective ignorance and objective evil. For Christian leaders today not to avail themselves of the sea change of knowledge in our understanding of the reality and the causality of homosexuality and to continue to act out of the ignorant and prejudiced mentality of yesterday is to be guilty of a massive evil.