ANALYSIS: World Visn's gay marriage flip-flop reflects evangelil angst as culture shifts

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

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. Conservative donors objected. * world vision and gay marriage *

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

After losg over 3,000 sponsors for needy children, the relief group backed out of plans to allow hirg for legally married gays and lbians * world vision and gay marriage *

""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 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.

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

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 anizatns. * world vision and gay marriage *

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 APOSTASY OF WORLD VISN EMBRACG GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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

Are we to believe that homosexual employe will not advote for their liftyle when workg wh impoverished children and fai? 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.

CHRISTIAN CHARY DO FULL 360 ON GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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"?

CHRISTIAN GROUP THAT FLIP-FLOPPED ON GAY MARRIAGE LOS DONORS

Now he was flabbergasted to hear that they were regnizg "gay Christiany" and same-sex "marriage" among their employe.

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

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.

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Two Days Later, World Visn Revers Policy That Allowed Hirg Of Gays : The Two-Way : NPR .

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