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Yesterday I wrote about\u00a0<\/span>the decline of anti-gay religion<\/a>. The context was the recent<\/span>Faith Angle conference<\/a>\u00a0at which speakers and participants discussed the shifting views of\u00a0<\/span>Catholics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>evangelical Protestants<\/a>\u00a0on homosexuality. The one speaker who clearly reaffirmed his belief in the sinfulness of homosexual behavior was\u00a0<\/span>Russell Moore<\/a>, the president of the Southern Baptist\u00a0<\/span>Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission<\/a>. Even he acknowledged that his brethren were becoming more realistic and modest in their approach to the issue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One thing I didn\u2019t write about was Moore\u2019s cultural view of the anti-gay resistance. I\u2019m using the term\u00a0anti-gay\u00a0<\/em>here to mean opposition to homosexual behavior, not to homosexual inclination, since Moore would certainly say that he loves the sinner, gay or straight. What\u2019s striking about Moore\u2019s perspective is that he no longer sees gay people as the deviant minority. The deviants, in his view, are Christians.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I don\u2019t mean that he thinks there\u2019s anything wrong with being Christian. I\u2019m using the technical definition of deviance: divergence from the norm. The new norm is acceptance of homosexuality. Those who disagree are, in Moore\u2019s language, freaks.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe illusion of a Moral Majority is no longer sustainable in this country,\u201d Moore\u00a0told the conference participants<\/a>. Given the country\u2019s cultural transformation, he argued, pursuing \u201ca constitutional amendment for same-sex marriage is a politically ridiculous thing to talk about.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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