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Originally Posted by ernie
It must also be said that several churches and christian leaders have signed counter statements. In this neck of the woods 15-20 churches in Tulsa did so completely condemning the Nashville statement and welcoming the LGBT community to their churches. It just doesn't make the news.
It's not all bad...it's just bad that the churches and spiritual "leaders" with actual political power/influence are the ones on that Nashville statement.
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Yeah, I have seen this in the works for some time. I good friend of mine is a minister at a Baptist Union church (or is it General Conference? I can never get them straight) in the Edmonton area, and he has told me that the LGBTQ issue is the next bastion of Evangelical ignorance to collapse. In another decade things in NA Evangelicalism should appear quite different than they do today.
However, there is still a strong sense of resistance to change, and I think it is becoming more and more vocal as this group continues to lose ground. My wife was marching in the Vancouver Pride parade this year with work, and we were caught completely off guard by the somewhat vitriolic reaction among a group of our friends that we camp with every summer.