Pro-gay evangelicals?
by Gerald McDermott, Patheos:
Can you be “evangelical” and support gay marriage within the church? Can you be “evangelical” and affirm actively-same-sex-partnered clergy?
Or does that so change the historic meaning of “evangelical” that it becomes difficult to distinguish “evangelical” from “liberal” Christianity?
We can learn from the public debate going on in the Church of England. Last week a non-evangelical bishop in the C of E proclaimed that “the idea that gender binary is part of the Judeo-Christian tradition is rubbish.” Then a group of self-proclaimed “evangelical” bishops and clergy and lay folks in the C of E released a book calling on evangelicals to change their views of same-sex relationships.
For the sake of clarity I will reproduce their statements and leading questions, and then give my response to each. The first six come from the non-evangelical bishop Alan Wilson of Buckingham. Starting at no. 7, the statements and questions come from the new book by “evangelical” Anglicans.
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