Homosexual adults rejected as church leaders and church members have threatened to sue, and a major state’s attorney general opened an investigation of the employment policy at the National Evangelical Christian Convention. Nearly half the states now have laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and almost 150 local governments have adopted similar provisions. The status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.” “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be.
The Bishop of the National Evangelical Christian Convention told the organization in May that it must brace for change.
Here is the legal language you are going to hear about the church in the near future: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?…Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:14, 17).
