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David French Flip-Flops Again, Declares Himself to Be Pro-Gay ‘Marriage’

The state’s fool David French has once again changed his view on same-sex marriage, now supporting it as a social good because he doesn’t want gay people to experience the trauma of ever losing their right to it.

French, a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator who could be called a conservative in the same sense that Arius of Alexandria is called a “Church Father’ would be unknown in evangelical circles if Albert Mohler and Russell Moore hadn’t platformed and promoted him over the last decade. He writes:

And that brings me to another topic—my flip, flop, and flip back again on civil marriage. I emphasize the word civil because my view on the religious nature of marriage has not changed. It is a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman, sealed before God, and breakable only on the limited conditions God has outlined in his Word. 

But declaring that religious belief is not the same thing as declaring civil law. Outside of the most hard-core integralists or dominionists, there is broad and wise consensus that importing divine standards whole cloth into civil law can be a recipe for division, oppression, and ultimate harm to the church itself. Our nation possesses an Establishment Clause for a reason. 

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“Millions of Americans have formed families and live their lives in deep reliance on Obergefell being good law. It would be profoundly disruptive and unjust to rip out the legal superstructure around which they’ve ordered their lives.”

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So here I am in 2022 trying to square the same circle that I was trying to square in 2004 and in 2015. I want Americans of different faiths and no faith at all to be able to live together, work together, form families, and live with peace, security, and dignity. I don’t want my gay friends and neighbors to live in fear that the law might tear their families apart.

Denny Burke comments: “David French comes out in favor of civil gay marriage in order to protect gay marriages from Obergefell being overturned. He argues that gay marriage is a sin but should still be the law of the land.”

Megan Basham concludes what’s really going on in a insightful, succinct way.

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David French Argues Millions of ‘Bible-Believing’ Black Protestants are the ‘Foundation’ of Democrat Party

The state’s fool David French appeared on the Holy Post Podcast with woke Veggie Tales creator Phil Vischer and Roe v. wade Skeptic Skye Jethani, where French explains that like it or not, the Democratic party is populated by “Bible-believing black Christians.”

French: “If you’re saying that we want Christian influence in the United States, I have good news for you. The biggest, one of the most important voting blocks in all of America, on both the Democratic and Republican side, are Bible-believing Christians. So you have, the white evangelical voting bloc- goes to church more than the average American, says they believe in the Bible- they’re the foundation of the Republican Party.

Democrats try winning without black Protestants. Like, the Democratic party is nowhere without its core base of Black American, Protestant Christians who are Bible-believing. And so that’s one of these things that- imagine sort of the arrogance of saying that a vote for a Republican is faithful and a vote for a Democrat is unfaithful.”

Jethani: “Was that Al Mohler?”

Vischer. “Yeah, he just said that last week.”

French: “And that’s an extraordinary statement when you’re talking about millions of Bible believing Americans who are the foundation of both Democratic parties and the Republican…”

This is ignorant on several levels, the least of which is that the overwhelming majority of mainline denominations who vote Democrats are lost pagans who’d just as soon slap Christ in the face as submit to him. United Methodist Church, Church of Christ, Episcopalians, tons of Anglicans, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Presbyterian Church USA, African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), plus throw in any Oneness Pentecostals for good measure. They need to all be removed from the mix.

These denominations are pro-LGBTQ and pro-abortion or deny the Trinity, so how can they be Bible-believing? While the Republicans certainly have their issues, the Democrat platform is ripped straight out of the devil’s diary. They are the party of legalized baby murder, child grooming, and the unrestrained destruction of the family and gender roles while imposing fascistic anti-Christian zealotry on the country.

Perhaps a misguided, confused, newly converted babe in the faith could vote for the Democrats. But millions of “bible-believing Christians”? Not a chance.

h/t The Dissenter

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AND Campaign Leader Says White Churches Who Don’t Want to Pay Racial Reparations are Arguing With God

Justin Giboney is the founder of the AND Campaign, a wishy-washy organization that seeks to strike a middle ground between the democrats and republicans by always leaning toward the former, as well as a prominent  The Gospel Coalition (TGC) contributor.

In a talk with David French as part of the Good Faith podcast, Giboney says that all white Christian churches owe racial reparations, even new ones who weren’t directly involved with it or who have no history with it, and that anyone who suggests otherwise is just trying to get off on a ‘technicality.’

French: The Protestant church in the US is just a whole bunch of brand new institutions, right? You’ve got all kinds of non-denominational churches that have sprung up in storefronts, for example. They have a history, but it might be to 2011, you know, that particular church? What do you say to a lot of these much newer Christian institutions? There’s all kinds of them in an evangelical spaces that have exploded and grown up since the end of slavery, since the end of Jim Crow. And they’re gonna look at you and say, ‘Justin, what are you talking about? We, my institution that I had, I’m a part of, had nothing to do with it. I have had nothing to do with it. Yet. This institutional analysis doesn’t make any sense to me, because we’re not at a seminary that benefited from slavery. We’re a church that started with 23 people and an old, you know, an old 7/11 building 15 years ago, what do you say to us along those lines?”

Giboney: I would say that you’re part of a culture and institutions that have benefited in general, right? So you know, whenever we look at sin, whenever we look at Christian ethics, you got to look at the spirit of it. Because if we want to get out of something, if we want to be overly technical and be lawyers, like you and I are, we can do that. I wouldn’t do that with God, though.

And I think if you really look at the spirit of, honesty, if you really look at the spirit of what the ethic is saying, have I in direct or indirect ways had a benefit? And even if I didn’t, have somebody been, has something been taken from somebody? What is my responsibility? So yeah, we can get technical, we can say, well, you know, ‘if you look at this, we didn’t exactly you know, we weren’t the ones, we shut this organization down and started something new’.

Yeah, but the benefits of that old institutions still flow in one way or another to the new institutions, right? Even if it isn’t a line item in the budget, right? There’s still ways that that flow from one of the other.

So you got to look at the spirit of it, and Christians know that in other in other spaces, we know that in other situations, but we want to get very technical and just find ways to get out of it. You can convince yourself with that. I would be worried that you could convince God that. And so we need to look at a little bit different

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Faux Conservative David French Pushes Wild Christian Nationalist Conspiracy Theories

David French, a self-proclaimed “conservative” Christian commentator has proven himself to be quite the opposite of conservative, especially over the past 6 years. David could be called a conservative in the same sense that Francis Collins is called a “Christian Scientist”, Stephen Colbert is called a “Christian Witness”, and Arius of Alexandria is called a “Church Father”. All of these labels are false advertising, of course, but many are duped by French’s “conservative” label and position in Big-Eva.

New York Times Columnist David Brooks, recently described French as one of the “Dissenters trying to save Evangelicalism from itself”, a title that begs the question, “What will French save us from?” Leftist publications like the New York Times and The Atlantic regard French as a conservative, which means that everyone to his right must be a theological fundamentalist or politically alt-right, as of course leftist publications have an excellent track record of keeping accurate weights and measures.

Alongside his friends in leftist media, French pushed the leftist Never-Trump narrative of the Trump-Russia Collusion scandal throughout Trump’s presidency. The collusion narrative that has been maintained by leftists over the past six years remains one of the greatest conspiracy theories of the last decade, a conspiracy theory on par with QAnon. Despite the fact that Trump has been out of office for more than a year, he continues to live rent-free in French’s head. In a recent post on the “French Press”, French alleges that Trump-supporting “Christian Nationalists” on the far-right are infiltrating churches to create a “potentially insurrectionary subculture”. French believes that right-wing revolutionaries are conspiring in churches, with offerings such as:

“The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church.

The new insurrection is being organized, in a sanctuary near you.”

Christians with a very basic understanding of scripture reject the notion that political idolatry is acceptable, despite the fact that some “pastors” cross the line and fall into political idolatry on a regular basis. However, French’s accusation of a widespread right-wing church-organized insurrection is so ludicrous and lacking in hard evidence that it qualifies as a bona-fide conspiracy theory, equivalent to the likes of the Trump-Russia Collusion and QAnon conspiracies.

French has bought into two conspiracy theories in the past six years, qualifying him as a tin-foil hat-wearing nut job. French is busy tilting at windmills to protect Evangelicalism from itself. Where is The Gospel Coalition’s conspiracy theory interventionist Joe Carter when you need him? French’s friends in Big-Eva don’t have the ability to punch left. They can only punch right. The double standard is real.

Editor’s Note. This is a guest post by Paul Brown
Sources: Opinion | Can These Evangelicals Save Their Movement? – The New York Times (nytimes.com) , The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church (thedispatch.com)