(Evangelical Dark Web) Richard Land’s legacy in the church is one of compromise with the world, going back decades. The former head of the ERLC wrote an op ed in which he recalled advising a family to commit murder via abortion after the couple received questionable medical advice. Theoretically, the ERLC is supposed to function as a lobbying and political arm of the SBC, whereby it should reflect a Christian political ethic, but throughout its entirety, it has been theologically liberal and required no need for liberal drift, only the removal of the mask.
In 2014, Richard Land wrote an Op-Ed in the Christian Post entitled “Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom: A Modest Proposal,” where he demonstrated a combination of his political ineptitude and his subversive nature that was evidence of moral compromise at the time. Whereas his 2022 article is terrible, his 2014 article, which addresses the same issue at an earlier point in time, is more egregious.
Land begins by addressing the claims that protecting religious freedom is likened to Jim Crow and discrimination.
So, what stance should early twenty-first century Christians advocate and support?
Perhaps we should begin by saying that homosexual activity between consenting adults should not be criminalized. As much as we may understand the desire of our Ugandan Christian brothers and sisters to protect their country from the moral excesses of the West, we should counsel them not to criminalize consensual homosexual activity.
Full stop right here. This is antinomian and anti-biblical. Moreover it goes against the civil tradition of America and the English Common Law, which were based on biblical morality. Sodomy is not a right. Buggery does not benefit society, it only produces harm through disease, sexual abuse, and increased degeneracy—all of which America has seen since 2003 when…. to continue reading click here.
This article was written by Ray Fava and published at the Evangelical Dark Web
