“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.
“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.”
Very true. Every non-Catholic Christian who rejects it that I have found is invariably very conservative. On the other hand try to find one person of any faith who accepts abortion, ‘gay marriage’, or female clergy but who also thinks bc within marriage is wrong.
Also civil divorce and remarriage or at least easy civil divorce and remarriage. That one conditioned a lot of folks that the state defines marriage and can change it if judges, pols, or 50%+1 of the voting public agree it should be changed at any one time.
Freegards
I agree...contraception has turned sex into an almost purely recreational thing as opposed to its intended purpose of procreation. Hence after the introduction of the pill you see the rise of:
1) militant feminism
2) beginning of breakdown of nuclear family
3) abortion
4) living in sin/shacking up