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Amy Tincher is an evangelical Christian who plays bass in the band at her suburban Ohio church, where she and her fellow congregants firmly believe the \u201cwords we adhere to\u201d are those in the Bible. But last summer, without telling her husband and two kids exactly what she was doing, she boarded a plane for a conference in Kansas whose purpose many evangelicals would plainly consider heretical.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Tincher was one of 50 people flown from around the country and the world\u2014Canada, China, Nigeria and South Korea\u2014to a four-day\u00a0Bible boot camp<\/a>\u00a0dedicated to discussing, and embracing, gay relationships. The gathering was organized by Matthew Vines, who by then was enjoying modest fame for a 2012\u00a0YouTube video<\/a>\u00a0in which Vines, looking even younger than his 21 years, delivers an hour-long lecture arguing that the Bible does not, in fact, condemn all same-sex relationships. The video has gone viral, racking up more than 730,000 views to date,\u00a0landing<\/a>\u00a0Vines on the cover of the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Sunday Styles section and helping him raise $100,000 for the conference, where he launched\u00a0The Reformation Project<\/a>, a nationwide network of pro-gay evangelicals committed to ending their church\u2019s longstanding hostility toward gay people.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Tincher told me she had once \u201ctried on\u201d an anti-gay attitude to fit in with her conservative community in Liberty Township, outside Cincinnati, but like many evangelicals, she struggled to see how homophobia could accord with an all-loving Christian God. So when her pastor sent her a link to Vines\u2019 video, she recalls, \u201cI remember sitting in my kitchen and just crying. I knew it in my heart, but I had never been told that from the pulpit.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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It\u2019s no secret that attitudes toward same-sex relations have changed in this country: Gay marriage is legal in 19 states plus the District of Columbia, and\u00a0all major public opinion surveys<\/a>\u00a0now show a majority of Americans are in favor of it. But Matthew Vines and Amy Tincher are no longer outliers either: Increasingly, even evangelical Christians, long known for doctrinally condemning homosexuality, are embracing gay people, too.<\/span><\/div>\n

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