by Gary Bauer, Dobson Policy and Culture Center (Image: Unsplash)
I wrote this week’s public policy update in advance of the election. We will analyze the voting results and give you a full report in a later update. But in this report, I want to alert you to the growing danger of “progressive Christianity.”
Progressive Christianity was prominently on display during this entire election cycle.
An amazing number of leftists running for the House and the Senate were pastors and “religious teachers” from progressive Christian churches. This is not a positive development. It is not good for America, and it is not good for Bible-believing Christians.
First, let’s look at the signs that a church is progressive. More often than not, an LGBTQ pride flag will be flying outside these churches. It is a common sight in urban America. Just what is it exactly that they feel “pride” in? No other sexual orientation gets a flag, but the homosexual rights movement has a special place in the heart of progressive Christian ideology. And it is not just a “welcome flag.” Progressive churches and denominations inevitably support the entire gay rights ideological agenda, including exposing your children and grandchildren to graphic LGBTQ information at the earliest age possible. I am talking about kindergarten, folks. It is also revealing that these progressive denominations proudly ordain open homosexuals to be pastors and church leaders.
Progressive Christians always claim that they are more compassionate than the rest of us mere Bible-believing Christians. But their claim doesn’t hold up under examination. They express zero compassion for the one million innocent preborn children—each made in the image of God—who are destroyed through abortion-on-demand each year. Their compassion only extends to the abortionist.
They claim they have compassion for the mother. But how is it compassionate to push a desperate woman to the abortionist’s knife? Millions of women are exploited and permanently harmed by abortion-on-demand.