I think he's spot on with this comment. For far too long the church has been silent on the issues of divorce, shacking up/living in sin, etc.
The homosexual movement is a natural outcome of this neglect by the church.
“If you spent 20 years and you’ve never said anything about divorce in the church culture, then shut up about gay marriage,” Smith said.
So because someone has been negligent about speaking against one sin it’s OK to support another sin? :?
“For far too long the church has been silent on the issues of divorce, shacking up/living in sin, etc.
The homosexual movement is a natural outcome of this neglect by the church.”
I generally agree with this point although I’d add another subject the Protestant church has been generally silent about, i.e., contraception. If the contraceptive mentality hadn’t started to be embraced by the Anglican Lambeth conference of 1930, we’d probably never be discussing the issue of marriage redefinition today.