{"id":769,"date":"2014-04-11T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/04\/after-world-vision-evangelicals-debate-boundaries-over-sexuality.html"},"modified":"2014-04-11T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:25:00","slug":"after-world-vision-evangelicals-debate-boundaries-over-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/04\/after-world-vision-evangelicals-debate-boundaries-over-sexuality.html","title":{"rendered":"After World Vision, Evangelicals Debate Boundaries Over Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
World Vision found itself testing the evangelical boundaries in March when it announced it would recognize employees\u2019 same-sex marriages. Within 48 hours, it reversed itself.<\/span><\/div>\n
At its core, the reversal raised a stark question: Can you be an evangelical and support same-sex marriage?<\/span><\/div>\n
Reverberations from the policy flip-flop continue to unfold. Last week, Jacquelline Fuller, director of corporate giving at Google, resigned from the international relief organization\u2019s board. Faithful America, an online Christian community focused on social justice, had gathered 16,000 signatures calling for Fuller and John Park, another Google employee who sits on the World Vision board, to step down.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cJacquelline Fuller did the right thing by resigning from the board of an organization whose values don\u2019t align with Google\u2019s commitment to inclusivity and equality,\u201d Michael Sherrard, director of Faithful America, said in a statement. \u201cNow it\u2019s time for John Park to follow suit.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
Taking a softer position, a group of progressive Christians wrote in a letter released Wednesday (April 9) that they grieve World Vision\u2019s reversal. \u201cAnd, we call on Christian institutions to employ LGBT brothers and sisters in Christ who help further the mission of their institutions,\u201d the letter states, acknowledging disagreements on both sides.<\/span><\/div>\n
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