The gay rights movement has “found God”
Well, according to this article they have.
What does this mean? Apparently the gay lobby in America is changing tactics. In their own words:
After decades of working to change secular institutions, the national movement, which has largely convinced society that homosexuality is neither a mental disorder nor a crime, is focusing on what its leaders say is their last, and biggest, challenge: convincing believers that it's not a sin.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the country's oldest gay rights organization, announced Monday that a religious organization representing 1,400 Protestant congregations that unconditionally welcome gays and lesbians has merged with the task force.
Over the next five years, the task force wants to increase membership in the Institute for Welcoming Resources to 10,000 congregations.
The “welcoming movement” is apparently about “accepting LGBT people as full human beings welcome in the congregation” and “reclaiming the language of faith and moral values from those on the right that attempt to hijack faith and moral values”. (Not that they want to caricature churches who take a different view of what God thinks about these issues!)
To become a member church of the “welcoming movement”, churches have to do three things:
First, they have to sponsor conversation among congregants about gay and lesbian issues in society and scripture. Then, church members will write a public statement welcoming and affirming gays and lesbians, and finally a church council or the entire congregation will vote on the statement.
And so pressure will be brought to bear on churches to jump on the gay bandwagon. I wonder how many will face the accusation on the final judgment day that “...they loved praise from [The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force] more than praise from God” (John 12:43)?