http://www.coptic.org.au/modules/news/article.php?storyid=35

http://www.coptic.org.au/resources/Newspaper/Media%20Release%2022July03.pdf

http://www.coptnet.com/Pope-Books/ordofwom/index.htm

From the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church: :

"Homosexuals Shall Not Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven Carnal people cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven. We read this in the Book of Revelation, chapter 21, where it speaks about the heavenly Jerusalem and says: "But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination" P12.

The Way to Repentance

Initially, a person who sins may be embarrassed, and cannot confess to this abomination. However, if that person openly declares his homosexuality, and begins to seek his rights as a homosexual, without seeking repentance, and even goes so far as to ask to be ordained priesthood, then this is an outrage" P22.

"We are pastors. How can we suffer that the blood of these wicked persons who will perish be required from us? We should warn them and say to them: "This way leads you to destruction". And at the same time God says: "Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul (Ezek. 3: 19).

The same words are also mentioned in chapter 33, because our Lord God wants to emphasise this point. "So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel, therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. When I say to the wicked, `O wicked man, you shall surely die!' and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity,. but his blood I will require at your hand (Ezek. 33: 7,8).

We must fear such condemnation. We must warn the wicked and say to them: `This is the way of death. If you walk according to the flesh you will die; you should obey the commandments of God.' If we love our children in a spiritual way we should guide them to repentance; we should try to purge them, to cleanse them, to heal them, to save them, not to justify their sins. This is not good for them nor for us. They will perish and their blood will be required at our hands." Pp23-24