Put on your flak helmets for this one: Bishop Spong, in calm, reasonable tones,

argues for, oh, nothing more than a complete remaking of Christian sexual morality

("The issue is that we live in the 20th century.... What we have done in our society is to

separate puberty from marriage by ten to fifteen years with no corresponding ethic to tell

young people how to deal with sexual energy ... Do you think they're going to refrain

from sexual activity? I think they're not, and therefore I suggest that we find a way to

enter into that world and provide a relationship that can be a committed relationship and

have an aspect of holiness about it"). Pastor Neuhaus does not pretend to take a detached

view ("Why do you want to take a Christian position when the argument of your book is

that there is nothing normative about the Christian Scriptures or the Christian

tradition?"). A high-voltage exchange, generating light as well as much heat.