Posted on 01/17/2015 6:03:25 AM PST by C19fan
If evangelical Christianity is famous for anything in contemporary American politics, it is for its complete opposition to gay marriage. Now, slowly yet undeniably, evangelicals are changing their minds.
Every day, evangelical communities across the country are arriving at new crossroads over marriage. My magazine story for TIME this week, “A Change of Heart,” is a deep dive into the changing allegiances and divides in evangelical churches and communities over homosexuality. In public, so many churches and pastors are afraid to talk about the generational and societal shifts happening. But behind the scenes, it’s a whole different game. Support for gay marriage across all age groups of white evangelicals has increased by double digits over the past decade, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, and the fastest change can be found among younger evangelicals—their support for gay marriage jumped from 20% in 2003 to 42% in 2014.
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Like the Episcopal church, the wider they spread their arms, the more people come in the door (and tithe).
God is a majority of one. He hasn’t changed His mind and He won’t.
They are NOT “changing their minds”, instead they’ve simply lost the will to fight.
The other side is RELENTLESS in taking down our society - and as they push, people simply get tired of having to keep pushing back.
Only those churches and “Christians” ALREADY entrenched in heresy and apostasy in their public and private lives could ever conceivable condone homosexuality, much less calling it “marriage.”
The state should be removed from marriage.
I suspect a lot of the change claimed is rhetoric to produce a bandwagon, where people will pretend to accept it because they think everyone else does. I wonder how much of any real change in Christian behavior is cover to avoid the bullying of political correctness and its enforcers. Many and perhaps most people are disgusted by homosexuality and by those who play make believe as if gay “marriage” could mean anything real.
I like how these articles never allow comments.
Like the WASPs need more money!
A lot of talk about us being cultist (by the enemy), but we make no demands on ANYone about ANYthing ... probably because the preaching is hot and biblical and scathes the guilty.
We DID put anti-Sodomite language in our constitution regarding officers and deacons, choir members and a couple of other areas.
We're just crazy fundamentalists.
I highly doubt that your average evangelical is now promoting sodomite unions.
Spot on!!!!
The left does this over and over again, using anecdotal results to give the appearance of a bandwagon. And the GOPe fall for it time after time.
Uh, no. If they reject truth, they are not evangelical. Period. Full stop. End of story.
This piece is agitation propaganda designed to provide cover for liberal people in churches....and to make more division between the Word of God and secular philosophy.
The power of the State defining deviancy down (Patrick Moynihan).
Imagine reading an article about how evangelicals are finally accepting incest, pedophilia and necrophilia? This is what homosexuality is. Pure hedonism. It is all about sexual pleasure, at all times, anywhere, anyplace, with anyone. Soon you will see men openly masturbating in public places. The media will be so happy that this will be accepted by so-called “Evangelicals”.
Uh, no. If they reject truth, they are not evangelical. Period. Full stop. End of story.
This piece is agitation propaganda designed to provide cover for liberal people in churches....and to make more division between the Word of God and secular philosophy.
‘’How the Homo-Nazis Subverted Evangelical Churches’’.
I tend to agree — it’s not a popular idea around here, and I understand why, but sadly we aren’t going to return back to national sanity for a long time to come — getting the state out of marriage entirely is probably our best bet at this point.
We DID put anti-Sodomite language in our constitution regarding officers and deacons, choir members and a couple of other areas.
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We had to revisit our constitution, bylaws and policy. Suggest all do the same.
I would gladly be a church of one even if the entire damn country accepted this crap. In fact, I’d just leave for brighter shores.
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