A number of thoughtful Evangelical commentators (captured here by my brave and faithful friend Owen Strachan) have responded pointedly to Elizabeth Dias's Time story, "Inside the Evangelical Fight Over Gay Marriage." They have demonstrated logically, theologically and philosophically why the movement to abandon Scripture's teaching on human sexuality in order to accommodate supposedly Evangelical advocates of normalizing same-sex "marriage" and attraction is an offense to God and the Gospel.
At the Family Research Council, we have joined them in addressing the concerns of younger Evangelicals regarding homosexuality, in recognizing the uniqueness of male-female complementarity and in celebrating God's plan for sexual intimacy as exclusive to marriage between one man and one woman, for life. We have hosted such careful exegetes as Pittsburgh Seminary's Robert Gagnon and published studies by leading theologians like Andreas Kostenberger. And we have answered those who assert that Scripture's teaching on homosexuality is culturally-conditioned or plain misunderstood.
Read Full Article »