Chapter 16—Homosexuality
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The 1977 annual council of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted
that “gross sexual perversions, including homosexual practices, are
recognized as a misuse of sexual powers and a violation of the divine
intention in marriage. As such they are just cause for
divorce.”—
General Actions, p. 10.
Reasons for which a person may be
disfellowshipped from the Seventh-day Adventist Church include
“homosexual practice and other perversions.”—
Seventh-day Adventist
Church Manual (revised 1986), p. 162
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Sodomitish Impurity—Oh, how disgusted is God with the tame,
lifeless, Christless efforts made by some of those who profess to be His
servants! God’s work must be carried forward strongly and upward.
This cannot be done unless the sensuality that corrupts the whole man
is separated from the religious experience. This work must be done.
Church members need to fast and pray, striving earnestly to over-
come by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. Not
one particle of Sodomitish impurity will escape the wrath of God at
the execution of the judgment. Those who do not repent of and forsake
all uncleanness will fall with the wicked. Those who become members
of the royal family and form God’s kingdom in the earth made new,
will be saints, not sinners.
Isaiah 30:1-3, 8-16
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Those who have had great light and have disregarded it stand in
a worse position than those who have not been given so many ad-
vantages. They exalt themselves, but not the Lord. The punishment
inflicted on human beings will in every case be proportionate to the dis-
honor they have brought on God. Many, by a course of self-indulgence,
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have put Christ to open shame.—
Letter 159, 1901
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Basest Passions of the Human Heart—Indulgence in unlawful
things has become a power to deprave mankind, to dwarf the mind and
to pervert the faculties. Just such a state of things as exists today existed
before the flood and before the destruction of Sodom. Dissipation is
on the increase in our world. Handbills on which indecent pictures are
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