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Contents:

• WORLD VISN: WHY WE’RE HIRG GAY CHRISTIANS SAME-SEX MARRIAG
• WORLD VISN REVERS POLICY THAT ALLOWED HIRG OF GAYS
• WORLD VISN REVERS DECISN ON GAY MARRIED EMPLOYE: WE MA A MISTAKE
• THE APOSTASY OF WORLD VISN EMBRACG GAY MARRIAGE
• ANALYSIS: WORLD VISN’S GAY MARRIAGE FLIP-FLOP REFLECTS EVANGELIL ANGST AS CULTURE SHIFTS
• CHRISTIAN CHARY DO FULL 360 ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHRISTIAN GROUP THAT FLIP-FLOPPED ON GAY MARRIAGE LOS DONORS
• TWO DAYS LATER, WORLD VISN REVERS POLICY THAT ALLOWED HIRG OF GAYS

WORLD VISN: WHY WE’RE HIRG GAY CHRISTIANS SAME-SEX MARRIAG

But a policy change announced Monday [March 24] will now perm gay Christians legal same-sex marriag to be employed at one of Ameri's largt Christian chari. It also opposed a 2012 attempt by USAID to "strongly enurage" fah-based ntractors to stop discrimatg agast gays and lbians orr to receive feral funds.

Highlightg the church/parachurch distctn: Board member and pastor John Crosby, who served as terim lear when a number of church spl off om the Prbyterian Church (USA) after the nomatn dropped a celibacy requirement for gay clergy 2011. Even Uganda, where a high-profile new law crimalizg gays and lbians has been opposed by World Visn Uganda, stated: "The issue of same-sex relatnships will neher prevent om servg children, fai and muni around the world, nor obstct our llaboratn wh one another and wh our partner anizatns. How would Stearns rpond to crics who bemoan the cisn as yet another Christian anizatn vg before the advancg gay rights movement?

WORLD VISN REVERS POLICY THAT ALLOWED HIRG OF GAYS

""We have listened to you and want to say thank you and to humbly ask for your fivens, " the agency said the letter, signed by World Visn print Richard Stearns and board chairman Jim Washgton state and started by evangelils, World Visn has an ternatnal operatg budget of nearly $1 billn and nducts enomic velopment and emergency relief agency had announced Monday that s board had prayed for years about whether to hire Christians same-sex marriag as church took different stands on regnizg gay relatnships. "A few other nservative relig chari have tried to change hirg polici to regnize gay relatnships, promptg ntroversy and a drop donatns, but World Visn was the largt and most proment by far to take the step.

WORLD VISN REVERS DECISN ON GAY MARRIED EMPLOYE: WE MA A MISTAKE

World Visn Revers Policy That Allowed Hirg Of Gays The Christian chary had said earlier gay marriage was an issue about which Christians of goodwill uld disagree, and hoped the policy would be unrstood that way. The Christian chary had said earlier gay marriage was an issue about which Christians of goodwill uld disagree, and hoped the policy would be unrstood that way.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The Christian chary World Visn announced this week would beg hirg married gay Christians, but then quickly reversed the cisn bee of a backlash om evangelils. But on Monday, World Visn announced that gay Christians legal, same-sex marriag uld work for the group. Now, is reversg that cisn to allow gay marriage among employe was wily cricized, and many donors wrote as much on the chary’s Facebook page.

And they claim that Pl’s prohibns (Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corthians 6:9-10; 1 Timothy 1:8-11) were addrsed to heterosexuals who engaged homosexual behavr, eher as prostut or to subjugate others. They argue that Pl had no ncept of homosexual orientatn or lovg, monogamo homosexual relatnships. Are we to believe that homosexual employe will not advote for their liftyle when workg wh impoverished children and fai?

THE APOSTASY OF WORLD VISN EMBRACG GAY MARRIAGE

They have not sistepped the issue of homosexualy—their cisn has brought si their work force and ma their ccial mistry an stment of further divisn the body of Christ. Shortly after I broke the news on my rad broadst and on social media, Christiany Today nfirmed the report: World Visn has cid to embrace homosexual "marriage" among s employe and to regnize practicg homosexual employe who profs fah J as te is a betrayal of the gospel, a betrayal of the Lord, a betrayal of the fay, and a betrayal of the untls thoands of Christians who have put their tst World Visn as a legimate Christian no way do ntribute to "buildg a better world for children" – one of the fundamental goals of World Visn. S print Richard Stearns stated that, "No one ever died of gay marriage, " thereby trivializg the importance of the issue, as if ntrasted wh the anizatn's missn of providg tangible relief to sufferg, he went much further, claimg that this radil, unbiblil move is actually a "very narrow policy change" that should be viewed as "symbolic not of promise but of [Christian] uny.

ANALYSIS: WORLD VISN’S GAY MARRIAGE FLIP-FLOP REFLECTS EVANGELIL ANGST AS CULTURE SHIFTS

World Visn ref the nature of marriage – the most fundamental stutn of society, ordaed by God Genis 2 as the lifelong unn of a man and a woman and reaffirmed by J as such Matthew 19 – and ignor the explic and repeated nmnatn of homosexual practice throughout the Scriptur and then claims is a "very narrow policy change"? By sanctng homosexual relatnships, World Visn is "ferrg to the thory of church and nomatns on theologil issu"? Now he was flabbergasted to hear that they were regnizg "gay Christiany" and same-sex "marriage" among their employe.

His newt book (September, 2015) is Outlastg the Gay Revolutn: Where Homosexual Activism Is Really Gog and How to Turn the Ti. Stearns had sent a letter to employe jt days ago announcg that the billn-dollar chary would regnize same-sex marriag of s employe – as long as they practice abstence before marriage – but not scribg as an endorsement of gay marriage. Gay groups announced boytts, and Christian nsumers rallied around the fast-food cha’s chicken sandwich.

Siarly, when Phil Robertson was spend om his popular realy TV show “Duck Dynasty” for makg ntroversial ments about homosexualy to GQ magaze, gay groups cheered the cisn as evangelil fans swamped the A&E work wh plats. The World Visn flip-flop reflects the stggle wh evangelilism over how to rpond to a growg cultural, legal and even relig acceptance of homosexualy, particularly same-sex marriage. Beyond the issue of homosexualy, the dt-up uld threaten the agency’s abily to attract supporters om all sis on issu such as global poverty and sex traffickg.

CHRISTIAN CHARY DO FULL 360 ON GAY MARRIAGE

In 2012, Pew found that 29 percent of young whe evangelils (age 18-29) exprsed support for allowg gays and lbians to marry legally, higher than olr evangelils at 17 percent. “I thk what the entire bacle really monstrat more than anythg is that Christians who disagree wh each other about same-sex marriage are still barely talkg to one another, ” said Matthew V, an openly gay evangelil and founr of the The Reformatn Project, an anizatn dited to softeng the church’s posn on gay rights.

”In his upg book, “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships, ” V tackl six passag the Bible that equate homosexualy wh sful behavr. ”Soclogist Jeremy Thomas, an assistant profsor at Idaho State Universy, agre that the way forward for evangelilism volv lookg at gay upl unr the same “moral bric” as heterosexual upl. A donor boytt anized by nservative evangelil groups has forced the Christian relief anizatn World Visn to reverse a policy change that would have allowed the non-prof to hire married gay and lbian employe.

CHRISTIAN GROUP THAT FLIP-FLOPPED ON GAY MARRIAGE LOS DONORS

On Monday, an terview wh Christiany Today, World Visn Print Richard Stearns announced the board would be alterg s long-standg employee nduct to wele married gays and lbians. ” World Visn Print Richard Stearns told Christiany Today that the board’s ial cisn to open hirg to gay and lbian spo was an effort to promote uny as some of the nomatns reprented by s members have begun performg and acceptg same-sex marriag. More liberal Christians, like Patheos blogger Tony Jon say that though nservativ won this battle, they will lose the war agast plete acceptance of gay and lbian upl.

Christian relief anizatn World Visn has stepped to the same-sex marriage bate, announcg that will regnize the marriag of gay and lbian employe effective immediately. He also noted that gay marriag would only be regnized so long as the employe practiced abstence before marriage.

World Visn had hoped to take what scribed as a ntral posn the gay marriage bate by ferrg to the lol church. "They were not takg a posn supportg same-sex marriage or homosexualy, " said Tim Dearborn, director of Fuller Semary's Lloyd John Ogilvie Instute of Preachg, who prevly oversaw how World Visn's Christian mments were implemented across s ternatnal partners. Esther Fleece reflected on her experience at Foc on the Fay when TOM'S Sho end a partnership over Foc's stance on homosexualy.

TWO DAYS LATER, WORLD VISN REVERS POLICY THAT ALLOWED HIRG OF GAYS

Instead, gay marriage would jo a seri of issu — like divorce, remarriage, baptism, female prits — that many Christian church disagree on. (RNS) Christian relief anizatn World Visn has announced that will no longer fe marriage as between a man and a woman s employee nduct manual, a groundbreakg change for an evangelil stutn and a reflectn of the impact that gay marriage is havg on relig anizatns.

“We’re seen to be agast homosexualy and gay marriage, agast pornography and sexual promiscuy, agast alhol and dg abe, abortn, divorce, Islam, evolutn … even agast those who believe that global warmg is a threat, ” he wrote. Christian relief anizatn World Visn has announced that will no longer fe marriage as between a man and a woman s employee nduct manual, a groundbreakg change for an evangelil stutn and a signal that gay marriage ntu to affect relig anizatn’s U. First, his words about uny expose the crass alignment of homosexual terurse and baptism as parable markers for biblil fahfulns.

When World Visn says, “We nnot jump to the fight on one si or another on this issue, ” here is the si they do, fact, jump onto: We forbid fornitn and adultery as acceptable liftyl among our employe (which they do), but we will not forbid the regular practice of homosexual terurse. But worse than fancy, removg homosexual terurse om s biblil alignment wh fornitn and adultery (and greed and theft and dnkenns) trivializ s rrelatn wh perdn. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.