January 11, 2013

This Louie Giglio Moment

Ed Stetzer, LifeWay Research

It was announced this morning that Louie Giglio had withdrawn from the program at President Barack Obama's inauguration later this month in the face of criticism over a 15-year old sermon referencing homosexuality as a sin (See Louie's statement here). Many will want to debate and desire to nuance the specific wording he used in the sermon, but his points are largely mainstream evangelical beliefs.

This Louie Giglio moment, and the Chick-Fil-A moment that preceded it, and the Rick Warren moment which preceded that, raise the question: Where do people of faith with long-standing traditional religious/scriptural convictions go from here?

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