1. The church teaches compassion and forgiveness. 2. Among the proposals Jackson brought forward were for churches to teach children about financial markets in Sunday school. 3. And because of that, Matthews, a former seminarian who has treated priests with AIDS, recommends that the church teach priests about condoms and safe sex. 4. Churches teach Scripture in radically different ways. 5. Churches can teach children anything they choose. 6. Conservative Christian churches teach that the Bible calls homosexuality a sin, like adultery, drunkenness and greed. 7. For centuries, the church taught that sex was sinful and that sexual intercourse gained a measure of acceptability only when shielded by marriage and intended solely for procreation. 8. He knows what the church teaches. 9. I believe that the church teaches what Christ taught. 10. If African-American churches taught that message, they could push illegitimacy and divorce rates back down, as they move men and women to marry. |