They can now be proven wrong.
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"The question could be asked... whether the proverbial “whore with a heart of gold” may also be permitted to seek ordination while still plying her trade?"
- Bruce Metzger on gays within the church he compares to 'whores.' The supposed unbiased translator and editor of both the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible who first put the word "homosexual" in an English Bible translation for the first time in 1946.