This was recently brought up on RCR....(although it is about Catholics, the topic is raging in all Christendom currently)
"Most obviously, it's an argument about the correct approach to take to people in "irregular unions" -- cohabiting couples, same-sex couples, and divorced and remarried Catholics whose first marriages haven't been annulled. In particular: should some of those latter be given communion or should they not?" Russell Shaw
Co-habitating couples:
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If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
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The Answer for all Christianity:
Co-habitating couples:
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you,....
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
1 Corinthians 5:1,2
Gay Couples:
...for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 1:26,27
Divorce & Remarriage:
a) But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:32
b) For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband:But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases:
1 Corinthians 7:14,15
