[Guyin4Os]

Well, then, they probably shouldn’t have let him sign at all — and certainly should not have lied to him to persuade him to sign on.

Chuck Colson didn't lie to Ron Sider. Sider, in spite of his left-leaning redistributionist beliefs, is still an evangelical believer who understands homosexual behavior to be immoral. He is misguided but not evil. Those who would impose homosexual marriage on the US are evil. They have goals that go beyond their stated motivation of "equal rights for gays." They wish to destroy any influence evangelical Christianity has in the US. It is THEY who are lying to the well-meaning-but-misguided Ron Siders within Christianity.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Ron Sider's 1977 book "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger" had all the faults you describ, Alex; but he was admitting he was wrong about statism, Marxism, population control even when I knew him (over 20 years ago) and since then has written frequently in favor of the right to life, against abortion and even against homosexuality, which he calls immoral.

I myself would be consumed with shame and indignation if I were to be perpetually judged by some of the the ignorant rubbish I expounded on in the 1970's.

Sider has admitted his mistakes and learned from his critics since then. We should be more just in our judgments: let's give him credit for allowing himself to be changed by accurate criticism. It's a virtue all of us would do well to acquire.