Megachurch Leader Drops
Celibacy Requirement for ‘Gay’ Members–
as Long as Sex Is in ‘Marriage’
THE LATEST "TWIST" ON SO-CALLED "REFORMED" CHRISTIANITY:
MANIPULATING THE BIBLE TO SAY WHAT IT DOESN'T:
NO TO FORNICATION; YES TO DEVIANCY IN PRIVATE-
STILL UNNATURAL, UNBIBLICAL, & UNGODLY
EXCERPT:
"“Our pastoral practice of demanding life-long ‘celibacy,’ by which we meant that for the rest of your life you would not engage your sexual orientation in any way, was causing obvious harm and has not led to human flourishing,” Fred Harrell of City Church, the largest professing evangelical church in San Francisco, announced in a letter on Friday."
“We will no longer discriminate based on sexual orientation and demand lifelong celibacy as a precondition for joining,” he said. “For all members, regardless of sexual orientation, we will continue to expect chastity in singleness until marriage.”
City Church, a member of the Reformed Church in America, is stated to have been launched 18 years ago by the inspiration of Tim Keller’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. Harrell said that during the nine-month decision-making period leading up the release of last week’s inclusion letter, he and other elders were influenced by Ken Wilson’s publication “A Letter to my Congregation: An Evangelical Pastor’s Path to Embracing People who are Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Into the Company of Jesus.”
As previously reported, Wilson, leader of Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor, Mich., claimed last year that he had received a “strong nudge from Jesus” to announce his changing views on homosexuality.
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KEN WILSON'S "MYSTICAL NUDGES"
FROM A DIFFERENT "JESUS":
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST FROM April 30, 2014:
KEN WILSON: MICHIGAN VINEYARD CHURCH PASTOR NOW SUPPORTS GAY LIFESTYLE AFTER DABBLING IN CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM & ECUMENICAL CHARISMATIC EFFORTS
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Biden: Gay Rights Must Take Precedence Over Culture
Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2014 09:11 PM
Newsmax
Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation and must trump national cultures and social traditions.
Biden told a gathering of U.S. and international gay rights advocates that President Barack Obama has directed that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women around the world
“I don’t care what your culture is,” Biden told about 100 guests at the Naval Observatory’s vice presidential mansion. “Inhumanity is inhumanity is inhumanity. Prejudice is prejudice is prejudice.”
With anti-gay laws taking root in nearly 80 countries, Biden and other top White House officials met with religious, human rights and HIV health care advocates in a forum dedicated to promoting gay rights internationally.
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Vice President Joe Biden at the 2015 HRC Equality Convention:
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Daughter of Two Moms Comes Out Against Gay Marriage:
HEATHER BARWICK
SEE:
EXCERPT:
“Same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not,” she writes. “A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting. My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad. I loved my mom’s partner, but another mom could never have replaced the father I lost.”
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ALSO SEE:
Another Child of Same-Sex Parents Speaks Out
