Scott B. Rae is Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Talbot.
A noted ethicist, he is also the co-host of the Thinking Biblically podcast and author of a dozen books include Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics, Business for the Common Good, and Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics.
Rae holds to a biblical view of marriage and has a history of affirming that homosexuality is a sin. Yet in recently unearthed audio, Rae explains that he would attend the gay wedding of his relatives so as not to alienate them.
He also states that were he a Christian baker, not only would he bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, but he would make it twice as good and charge them half the price.
See I think we need to change, you know, we we’ve always had this maxim for a long time: “Love the sinner, hate the sin.” And I would change that. I would just say “you love the person. Period”
That’s why, for example, just for myself, you may disagree with me on this, but if my brother or one of my nephews was gay and asked me to attend his wedding, I would.
Because he would certainly already know my views on the subject. And my staying home, the only thing that would gain is it would further alienate him, somebody I’m trying deeply to stay connected to. My staying home would not send him a message that he doesn’t already have from me.”
Turning to the issue of cakes, he continues:
And you know, again, you may disagree with me on this too. But if I were those bakers, I’d have baked the cake. And I probably would have baked them twice as good a one and charge them half the price. Because I (unintelligible). You may see that differently.
When the person he is speaking to tells him that, as a photographer, he couldn’t shoot a gay wedding on account of the falseness of it, Rae responds:
I guess my view of that is that is a cake is a cake. The only thing calling it a wedding cake gives you the freedom to is to charge a lot more money for it. You may see that differently.
LEAKED AUDIO: Biola University professor and co-host of the “Thinking Biblically” podcast Scott Rae says he would TOTALLY attend sodomite weddings & insists that Christian bakery owner Jack Phillips should have baked the gay-wedding cake twice as big and charged half as much! 🤔 pic.twitter.com/cymbOWGTxr
— Seth Gruber (@sgruber91) January 30, 2026
6 responses to “Biola Professor Says He Would Attend Gay Wedding, Bake LGBTQ Wedding Cake”
This is what I expect from these jokers, the big question is Will Sean Mcdowell ignore this or come out and give reasons why this is the “loving” thing to do? smh
“he would attend the gay wedding of his relatives so as not to alienate them”.
So Luke 14:26 means nothing to him ? Got it…
“If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.” – Luke 14:26
[…] Biola Professor Says He Would Attend Gay Wedding, Bake LGBTQ Wedding Cake90,000-Member ‘Gigachurch’ Faces Lawsuit Over Hostile Church Takeover‘I Object!” Priest Erupts at Election Ceremony of First Female Archbishop of CanterburyBuddygate: The Debate Kirk Was Afraid to HaveChristian Mayor Luke Eldridge Falsely Named In ‘Signalgate’ Scandal […]
What if they were Klansmen?
If the Lord says to not associate with them, which He does (1 Cor. 5, etc.), and He tells us not to justify wickedness, support, affirm, or encourage sin, which He does (Prov. 17:15, etc.), but we disobey Him and do not do what He tells us to do, then we will bear the responsibility, blame and guilt, for the eternal fate of the sinner.
Do we know better how to draw others to the Lord, than the Lord knows Himself?
No, we are to put Him first and obey Him, and we are to put family second. When there is a conflict, then He wins and family loses. That’s not on us. That’s on the Lord.
Since when does “enabling” ever encourage anyone to turn from their wrongdoing? It just could be that the alienation and difficulty, which they bring on themselves, for which they are solely responsible because of their sin, is what draws them back to the Lord, as it was with the Prodigal Son. But it is not for us to try to reason out such things. You won’t catch me doing it, because I don’t want that eternal “blood” on my hands. I intend to obey the Lord, do what He says to do, and not bear the burden of blame.
But what this professor is suggesting is entirely the opposite, entirely backwards, and upside down … completely antithetical to everything in scripture from the first page to the last … the false notion that one is responsible if he obeys the Lord, and not responsible if he disobeys the Lord. Now what sort of message does that send to the lost? That if they’re fine as long as they stay lost?
Is this not the guy who is often co-host on the podcasts of Sean McDowell?
His ethics do not seem to take into account something important called the fear of the Lord.