The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission pushed back at criticism by Fox News analyst Kirsten Powers and culture writer Jonathan Merritt that it’s hypocritical for a Christian photographer to refuse to participate in a same-sex wedding while responding differently to other “unbiblical” marriages such as those between a Christian and a non-believer or after a previous marriage ended in divorce.
Powers and Merritt suggested in a Daily Beast column Feb. 23 that the futility of vendors trying to provide goods and services only for “biblical” ceremonies best explained ERLC President Russell Moore’s advice in a Gospel Coalition column that a Christian wedding photographer need not investigate whether the wedding he or she is covering is “Christ-honoring.”
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