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...least one powerful Evangelical apparently found that unconvincing. In a statement Dr. Wiley Drake, pastor of First Baptist Church in Buena Park, Callif., and Second Vice President of the 42 million-member Southern Baptist Convention told the Los Angeles Times, "You can't work together with people totally opposed to what you are. This kind of conference is just going to lead people astray...
Specifically, conservative religious factions in the United States who actively oppose granting marriage and other rights to homosexuals need to use their heads and look into their hearts on this one. Rather than trying to rapidly distance themselves from the once-beloved Pastor Ted, who was a spiritual leader and a role model for many religious Christians for years, they should take this time to consider what actually caused this man’s unfortunate downfall...
Please, listen to Pastor Ted: “There is part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life,” he wrote in a letter to his congregation. Now, subtract the self-loathing and jihad rhetoric, and what are you left with? A man who has been fighting with himself for all of his adult life. Not the effeminate, tradition-flaunting liberal who has decided to be countercultural, but a deeply pious man who has tried his very hardest to suppress his desires...
...Pastor Ted has inadvertently provided us with a sermon far more profound and honest than any of his others: it is no one’s place to oppress people’s lives by denying them the opportunity to be happy and live as they truly are. It is no man’s place to play...
...involvement in the killings. He blames them on "internal purges" in the N.P.A., which indeed murdered hundreds of its own people in the 1980s. Yet there is much to incriminate Esperon's men. Last week it emerged that a suspected member of one hit squad, which killed campaigning Methodist pastor Isaias Santa Rosa in August, carried army identification and orders for a "secret mission" from army intelligence. (The papers were discovered on the hit man after he himself was killed, apparently by friendly fire.) Before his murder by two unidentified men last year, left-wing activist Edison Lapuz told friends...