When the evangelical establishment comes after you
David Gushee
17 July 2017
http://religionnews.com/2017/07/17/lgbtq-equality-evangelical-rejection//Eugene Peterson discovered painfully that the evangelical establishment will immediately seek to destroy anyone who breaks with their understanding of orthodoxy on LGBTQ issues.
Nothing he did before mattered. Nothing else he believes mattered.//
//Today I would much rather stand with rejected LGBTQ Christians than with those who reject them. I have therefore turned in my evangelical ID badge and moved on to do just that.
So don’t worry about me, or about the rough week Eugene Peterson had. Do worry about those LGBTQ Christian kids who continue to experience stigma, rejection, and even contempt in their own Christian homes, churches and schools. Worry about what the events of last week taught them.//
Alex's comment:
Someone did some translation on Facebook:
當那些福音派建制要來對付你......
//畢德生痛苦地發現了,原來福音派建制可以在瞬間集中火力來摧毀任何偏離他們所理解的對多元性向議題立場的人。
他之前一生做過甚麼並不重要,他自己真心相信甚麼也不重要。......
但你要記住,不論你在福音派權貴手中遭遇到甚麼虐待,那都比不上多元性向人士在牧者、教師、父母、和他們生命裡的「基督徒朋友」所承受的。
所以,你不要替我擔心,也不用替走過這痛苦一星期的畢德生擔心。你應該替其擔心的是那些多元性向基督徒,他們要繼續在他們自己的基督徒家庭、教會和學校承受恥辱、拒絕和蔑視。讓我們憂慮上星期的事帶給他們甚麼信息。//