re: #75 mmmirele

Actually, it’s worse than that. They went with anti-abortion rhetoric because it became politically impossible to remain segregationist. In more recent years, they’ve added anti-LGBT rhetoric.

Which brings me to something I’ve been fuming about. So-called “progressive Christians” completely ignoring the persecution of LGBT persons by their co-religionists. There are a bunch of “progressive Christians” (the usual suspects, led by Jim Wallis at Sojourners) who put out a statement called “Reclaiming Jesus.” It’s not a bad statement in general—it calls out evangelicals for Christian nationalism and for failures in the areas of race and gender. BUT the big hole you could drive a Mack truck through is that the statement mentions NOTHING, and I do mean NOTHING about LGBT persons.

I know why they did it; some “progressive Christians” are so-called “third way” people who believe that LGBT Christians should remain celibate. (Oh, I could go nuts here but will spare you.) The people who put out this statement decided to cater to that bunch to increase their numbers, and people who know better (like the lauded Presiding Bishop Michael Curry from the Episcopal Church) signed on to this thing.

It’s hard for me to take so-called “progressive Christians” seriously when they deliberately ignore the suffering being perpetrated upon them by their evangelical co-religionists. Its’s the kind of thing that is pretty much ensuring that I’ll be staying out on the sidewalk with a sign rather than going into a church.

You are correct about that. Thinking LGBT people should remain celibate is incredibly insensitive.