Okay, let's try this as a *Manual [of the Church of the Nazarene]* statement:
For much of the history of God’s sojourn with Israel, the law was provided to increase the longevity and well being of people who were severely vulnerable to disease, injury, natural disaster, starvation, banditry, military invasion, and more. An elder was anyone over age 30. Most people died before reaching age 25, most of those dying in childbirth. It was imperative that sexuality be regulated, if the people of Israel were to be carried to the fullness of time, to the day that broke the back of death. Everything depended on the uniqueness and separateness of these people. The law kept them alive and separate, kept them devoted to the way of the God who created them when they were no people at all. The law was a kind of guardian that carried these people to the disclosure of the whole fullness of deity. Even with the coming of the way, the truth, and the life, it remains a good thing to be whole, to be happy, to be at peace. But the way, the truth, and the life are so abundant in the resurrected mutilated body of Jesus that they have room for those who are not whole or happy or at peace. The law is good, but only a shadow of what to it was still to come. And what was to come was the glorification of the mutilated body of Jesus. Holy Week made manifest that God is pleased to dwell where there is no wholeness, happiness, or peace—in any understandable senses of those words. There is rather a shalom that is beyond understanding, a peace that has room for those who do not and cannot advance the well being of the human race. In terms of sexuality, it is no longer necessary to bear children. The asexual have room in the assembly of the adopted siblings of Christ, as do the intersex and the transgender and the sexually uncategorizable, the strange, the queer, and those who do not conform in other ways to the ordinary habits of insider/outsider sexual classification. It is still a good thing for males and females to join their bodies and from them for babies to come into the world. It is a good thing for children to be embraced and led through the dangers of young life to the age when they might have children of their own. But the salvation of the gospel is a salvation that doesn’t depend on fertility or propagation. The salvation of the gospel does not depend on well being of any kind. The gospel embraces the disabled and uncommon, the odd and the broken, the stranger and the eunuch. When it is not the healed, but the still mutilated, body of Jesus that comes out of the tomb, shining with the light of God’s glory, of God’s holiness, of God’s deity, he comes out as a “Yes!” and a “Come!” to all those whom the champions of wholeness would cast out in self-consciously righteous fury. Even if it could be determined that what the word “homosexuality” so unkindly gestures toward were one means by which human sexuality is perverted, the perverted are embraced, too, when God embraces the mutilated body of Jesus, cold and dead and damned in the tomb. We repent that those of us who have allied ourselves with the dominant cultures of this present evil age are bold to declare on the basis of their own fallible judgments that homosexual acts are perverse, instead of affirming the biblical position that the only unforgiveable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the sin of refusing the grace of God that invades the worlds of strangers, eunuchs, and other outcasts. We believe the grace of God to be sufficient to overcome the theory and practice of heteronormativity and every other unrighteous “normativity” that would crucify Jesus again. We deplore any action or statement that would seem to imply compatibility between Christian love and the practice of heterosexual idolatry. We urge clear preaching and teaching concerning Bible obedience to the open, beckoning, roomy wounds of Jesus.