Former ERLC Head Richard Land’s Modest Proposal of Biblical Compromise
UNITED STATES - JULY 14: Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law subcommittee hearing on "The Ethical Imperative for Reform of our Immigration System", July 14, 2010 in the Rayburn House Office Building. (Photo By Douglas Graham/Roll Call via Getty Images)
(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
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Roman “civil” society was rampant with all manner of sexual perversion, including homosexuality. The Apostles did not compromise. They did not tolerate it. They did not accept it. They did not respect it. They condemned it, and turned away from it. And I will follow their lead.
It’s unbelievable, what these compromising so-called leaders of the church have done to us. A total nightmare. Every other time they open their mouths I wonder, 1) do they even own a Bible, and 2) if so, have they ever read it.
Find me a scripture that says wickedness should be tolerated, much less accepted or respected.
There is no such scripture. It is to be condemned.