Biblical Scholars Warn Against False Teaching in Human Rights Campaign’s LGBT Guide for Evangelicals

Jul 18, 2018 by Jill

by Brandon Showalter, Christian Post:

Some biblical scholars are warning against a new guide published by a prominent gay rights organization geared toward evangelicals who identify as LGBT, saying it amounts to “false teaching.”

Last week, the Washington-based Human Rights Campaign released “Coming Home to Evangelicalism and to Self,” a 32-page guide containing resources, advice, and testimonials for evangelical Christians who are “on the journey toward living fully in their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and in their faith and its traditions,” according to its website.

The guide features personal stories and practical suggestions from what they call a “wide variety of evangelical voices” in order “to spark new ideas, new dialogue and new courage,” citing recent surveys and polling data showing rising support for same-sex marriage among younger generations.

The voices featured all favor more liberal LGBT iterations of the Christian faith, among them Brandan Robertson, Mercer University ethicist David Gushee, and author Matthew Vines.

The booklet features the words of Shae Washington, who is in a lesbian marriage and reportedly attends the evangelical National Community Church in Washington, D.C., which has Assemblies of God roots and has several locations across the region. The HRC guide describes the congregation as a place that “considers itself non-affirming of LGBTQ people but is in a process of conversation and discernment to change.” Washington explains that the NCC “leaves room for people to decide that they are affirming and still participate in the church.”

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