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    8 Evangelical Leaders Who Have Publicly Embraced Apostasy

    In an interview this week, Christian best-selling author Eugene Peterson said he would be willing to officiate at a same-sex marriage. In saying so, he joins a prominent group of Christians whose views on same-sex marriage and LGBT issues have evolved.

    These popular Christian writers, pastors or musicians, in no particular order, have publicly broken from the traditional hard-line position against same-sex marriage.

    Jen Hatmaker
    Evangelical leader, author and HGTV star Jen Hatmaker publicly changed her views on gay marriage in 2016. Both a Facebook post calling for LGBT acceptance and comments about supporting same-sex marriage in an interview with RNS led LifeWay Christian Stores to quit selling her books in October.

    Jim Wallis
    The founder of Sojourners magazine, Jim Wallis was raised evangelical. He defended traditional marriage in a 2008 Christianity Today article, saying he wasn't sure he'd perform a same-sex blessing, although he did express support for gay and lesbian civil rights. In 2013, Wallis answered "yes" when asked if he supported same-sex marriage in a Huffington Post interview.

    Matthew Vines
    After taking a leave of absence from Harvard University to study the Bible and homosexuality, Matthew Vines gave a speech at his church about accepting gay Christians that has amassed over 1 million views on YouTube since 2012. He also started The Reformation Project, a nonprofit trying to "reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity," and wrote the book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships.

    Rob Bell
    The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speaking at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral in 2013. He then reaffirmed them during an Odyssey Networks interview the same week. At Grace Cathedral, he also said evangelicals should no longer be assumed to be conservatives. He described "a very narrow, politically intertwined, culturally ghettoized, evangelical subculture" that he sees dying out.

    Trey Pearson
    In a post on his website titled "My Coming Out Letter," Christian rock musician Trey Pearson told fans that he identified as a gay man, despite being married with children. As he explains in the letter, published in June 2016, he was raised in a faith that taught him "sexual orientation was a matter of choice," so he repressed his sexual desires most of his life. Since coming out, he has written about life as a gay Christian and created a music video depicting his experience.

    Julie Rodgers
    Although she has identified as gay since high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years. As she has chronicled on her blog and in The Washington Post, she first spent a long time advocating celibacy for Christians who were gay or lesbian. Now, she speaks and writes as an advocate for LGBT Christians.

    Rachel Held Evans
    In 2015, The Washington Post called Christian author Rachel Held Evans "the most polarizing woman in evangelicalism." This label comes from her positions on LGBT rights and homosexuality, topics she's grappled with publicly since starting her blog in 2008. In one of her old posts, "An Evangelical's Response to Homosexuality," she refuses to choose a side of the issue but does admit to wondering if the evangelical church "has it wrong." In more recent years, she has referred to herself as an "ally" and wrote about LGBT Christians in her 2015 book Searching for Sunday.

    Vicky Beeching
    Christian rock star Vicky Beeching still considered herself an evangelical, even after coming out via an interview with The Independent in 2014. During her keynote address at the 2015 Gay Christian Network's annual conference, the U.K.-based singer said she still loves the church. According to her official site, she now works as a speaker and writer, often discussing her personal journey and LGBT issues in the church.

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    Is apostasy really the right word for this? I don't think it is. And I think Jen Hatmaker has walked back her statement. As for Matthew Vines, I stopped in at our local Barnes and Noble a while back and saw his book next to mine. (Well, maybe I did a little rearranging to make it happen ).

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    Odd that these are all homosexual in nature..there are likely a lot of apostate 'leaders' who are heterosexual..

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    Odd that these are all homosexual in nature..there are likely a lot of apostate 'leaders' who are heterosexual..
    The thing is that now, sexuality and LGBT...matters are THE ISSUE!! that determines apostasy. Everything else seems to have fallen by the wayside in terms of unacceptable views.

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    Sexual immorality is the the only sin where one sins against their own body (I Corinthians 6:18), so it's no surprise that the devil uses it the most to destroy mankind.

    The hard campaign by liberals and NAMBLA to lower the age of consent is another indication of Satan's perverse agenda to destroy our children.
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    We do have to keep in mind Romans 1:21-32

    Vs 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only do these things, but approve of those who practice them...

    This is one of the few passages clearly addressing homosexuality...linking it to a reprobate mind....but this passage includes many other things, murder, envy, strife, God-haters, arrogant...ect...

    But the key here is that these not only do them..they approve them that practice them....this is a picture of apostasy...

    So these 8 have reached the level of apostasy that embraces the abomination of homesexuality, approving of it...

    But they just reached a noticeable pinnacle...Apostasy is to depart from the truth...no matter what that truth is we know based on the many varying denominations that apostasy is present, likely, in all their teachings to some degree....but in Romans it becomes clear there is a pinnacle and that pinnacle contains as a essential symptom, embracing homosexuality...but apostasy starts long before that...and if unchecked escalates..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    Sexual immorality is the the only sin where one sins against their own body (I Corinthians 6:18), so it's no surprise that the devil uses it the most to destroy mankind.

    The hard campaign by liberals and NAMBLA to lower the age of consent is another indication of Satan's perverse agenda to destroy our children.
    Reducing humans to animal instinct....it's not hard to see the circle of deception...sexual immorality has been reduced in our culture and even by Christians to 'normal'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    We do have to keep in mind Romans 1:21-32

    Vs 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only do these things, but approve of those who practice them...

    This is one of the few passages clearly addressing homosexuality...linking it to a reprobate mind....but this passage includes many other things, murder, envy, strife, God-haters, arrogant...ect...

    But the key here is that these not only do them..they approve them that practice them....this is a picture of apostasy...

    So these 8 have reached the level of apostasy that embraces the abomination of homesexuality, approving of it...

    But they just reached a noticeable pinnacle...Apostasy is to depart from the truth...no matter what that truth is we know based on the many varying denominations that apostasy is present, likely, in all their teachings to some degree....but in Romans it becomes clear there is a pinnacle and that pinnacle contains as a essential symptom, embracing homosexuality...but apostasy starts long before that...and if unchecked escalates..
    I agree. Perfect scripture reference Quest. Describes them to a Tee!
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    Never heard of any of them!

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