How Evangelicals Are Changing Their Minds on Gay Marriage

TIME ^ | 01/15/2015 | Elizabeth Dias

[SeekAndFind]

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.

[Elsie]

a lot of Christians get divorce, shack up and abort their children all that means is they are backslidders and not practicing Christianity. SINNERS; needing a SAVIOR.

[Elsie]

Churches are a place for sinners to gather, to learn about the Lord and to let him change your life.

HE's still workin' on ME!

[Elsie]

This stuff is happening in all churches at various levels of penetration.

I...
must...
resist...

[captmar-vell]

When any Christian story is being run in the mainstream media, its the most important topic that has superseded all others

So for those believers easily led about and readily accepting what spews out of their TV as somehow enlightened and correct and being just how things really are today, in effect normalizing every sort of evil vs. making an attempt at discernment of an increasingly corrupted culture,

It is an evil spirit at work and it leads to such a place being given over to reprobate minds, this also explains the often inexplicable and poor (even outright evil) actions of its leaders. To do those things which they shouldn’t even within their own desires.

Every time some Laodicean minister like a Joel Osteen or Rick Warren goes on a MSM talk show, this is usually the first question from the interviewer, and their always ready with their softball market tested safe non-answer and the world is ready with a smile and pat on the back,

And you’re absolutely correct (for anyone awake and watching) spiritual warfare is now intensifying and seems to be dramatically so in just the last couple of years,

We’re heading toward something very bad.

[captmar-vell]

“Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: . .” Isaiah 5:18

They probably believe their the first generation to ever get here,

Nothing new under the sun,

[caww]

The blame game is simply an excuse to take the “heat” of one another rather then seek what God actually says about these issues. It's all about mans opinion or agenda and lifestyle HE desires...then he finds scripture to support it, when it should be the other way around.

Anytime marriage becomes the issue, which God established what this consists of in Genesis and Jesus confirmed in the New Testament......we suddenly see gay photos of men embracing all over the media....and this to further "condition" the public to "get use to it". These public displays are sickening in every respect! But they are part and parcel of the push for society to accept this sexual perversion.

Catholicism has, as you say, been years a place for homosexuals to find 'safety' to practice their perversion. The Pope knows this is 'more than' pervasive/invasive in his church, so he has no choice but to find compromise as otherwise to rid the church of the Priests etc., who practice this, would mean more than half, if not more, of the Priesthood would be outed...and without the Priesthood the catholic church would fall like a deck of cards.

[caww]

....”This article also infers showing homosexuals love and respect means affirming gay marriage, which is does not necessarily mean”....

Homosexuals misuse the word love regarding how they see one another and how they want us to see them. God’s love does not operate without His Justice ...sin is sin and they are attempting to re-package their sin by distorting and abusing God’s Word in what this means.

(IMO many homosexuals are simply angry that people oppose their sick and perverted sin. They know it’s not how God intended the body to be used.....and they also know it’s unnatural.)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I tend to believe that this article is one of many designed to create what propagandists call a “Band Wagon.”

[redleghunter]

I think the original meaning of “fundamentalist” needs a come back to separate the emerging church liberal theology referenced as “evangelical.” The churches changing their views of bedrock Christian morals are departing from #5 below (and in some cases a mixture or all five):

There are five fundamentals of the faith which are essential for Christianity, and upon which we agree:

1. The Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1; John 20:28; Hebrews 1:8-9).

2. The Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; Luke 1:27).

3. The Blood Atonement (Acts 20:28; Romans 3:25, 5:9; Ephesians 1:7; Hebrews 9:12-14).

4. The Bodily Resurrection (Luke 24:36-46; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 15:14-15).

5. The inerrancy of the scriptures themselves (Psalms 12:6-7; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20).

The above drafted as a response to the liberalism of 19th century Protestant emerging theologies.