Evangelicals are shifting on same-sex marriage, but it’s no avalanche

[hrmjustin]

Jonathan Merritt

Pardon the yawn.

The 1.7 million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) on Tuesday voted to officially approve of same-sex marriage, an announcement that shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed the mainline Protestant denomination’s trajectory. Perhaps a more substantial but less widely reported story was the decision by City Church, San Francisco’s largest evangelical congregation, to affirm LGBT couples.

Evangelicals are among the most stalwart opponents to LGBT marriage, but a number of evangelical congregations have publicly shifted their stance in the last year. Among them are Seattle’s Eastlake Community Church, Nashville’s GracePointe Church, Portland’s Christ Church, and New Heart Community Church in La Mirada, California. Other prominent evangelical pastors tell me off-the-record that they are in the midst of similar conversations.

- See more at: http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2015/03/18/evangelicals-shifting-sex-marriage-no-avalanche/#sthash.B36c6Rkj.dpuf

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I betcha they're seeing more of their members...

wanting to get married.

It's always easier to condemn something for people you don't know.

[hrmjustin]

2. Agreed! When you talk about actual people in front of you attitudes change.