Inconsistencies

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and champion of “convictional kindness,” complained that the disappearance of “fornicate” from our vocabulary cedes the moral imagination to the sexual revolutionaries because it is not compatible with “premarital sex.” 

However, in response to the issue of same-sex “marriage,” he stated: “The increased attention to the question of marriage also gives us the opportunity to love our gay and lesbian neighbors as Jesus does.” 

It would seem that the words “gay” and “lesbian” cede moral authority and common sense. And if he doesn’t like “premarital sex,” why does he have no problem with “gay” instead of homosexual? Aren’t both unbiblical?

When a Christian photographer expressed misgivings about photographing a same-sex wedding, Moore agreed that it was inappropriate. But he had no problem with photographing weddings of the unequally yoked, divorced, adulterers, etc., because those weddings had no “obvious deviations.” 

Even more confounding is that he did not support the Starbucks Coffee Company boycott because it would “hurt the company, by depriving it of revenue.” Do we really want to forfeit our religious liberties when corporate revenue is at stake?

With so much convictional kindness and acceptance going around, the SBC is hosting a “sex summit” in April that will focus on “how the gospel shapes a person’s identity, redeems sexual desire and sets free people held captive by sin.” 

The gospel has nothing to do with redeeming sexual desire. They probably need to worry less about the redemption of sexual desire and affirmation of sodomites and more about the redemption of mankind from his sins through the blood of Jesus Christ. 

John Morgan
Maplesville, Ala.