We're not all reading the same Bible

I fail to understand how anyone who reads and teaches from the same Bible I'm familiar with can possibly come to the conclusion to allow open, sexually active homosexuals to be members of the clergy of their church.

In a Fox News article from Friday, I learned that leaders of the nation's largest Lutheran church, with around 4.7 million members, voted to allow gays and lesbians who are sexually active and in what they call "committed relationships" to serve as clergy. Since the vote there has been much discussion on how this will affect individual congregations, who are not going to be made to enforce this new rule, but will probably be pressured nonetheless. There is also a lot of debate going on about whether this is a step forward for the Lutheran church or if it will divide the church as a whole and individual congregations as well.

I don't know what is more disturbing to me, this new rule or that, from what I gather from reading a few different articles, that homosexuals have been serving as clergy for some time now as long as they keep it under wraps! It is extremely sad to me that men in leadership positions such as these can read and teach from the same text that I and millions of other Christians do and come to a conclusion that they've made the right decision. This is yet another example of man becoming so jaded by the world we live in that he would put his faith in the modern secular world and discard what God tells us to be true as being old and out-dated. It's really just too frustrating for words.