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Slopes Really Are Slippery, Folks
The Detroit Free Press recently published an article with the provocative title, “Detroit Baptist Leader Resigns After Announcing She Married a Woman.” Yep. You read that correctly. The female pastor has married another female.
If you’ve been watching the cultural developments with same-sex marriage, you’ve no doubt guessed that a headline like this was coming. The culture’s confusion regarding gender, sexuality, and sex seems to know no limits. In fact, this isn’t even the most bizarre headline in recent weeks.
It seems to me we’ve been on this downward slope for a long time. And the farther down the slope we slide the more we hear from some leaders in the Black church that we’re “making progress,” or “advancing civil rights,” or “ending prejudice and bigotry,” or “facing the Black church’s sexism and homophobia.” We’ve seen African-American pastors gather to politically champion the legalization of same-sex marriage and new Black church campaigns have been launched for “gay transgender justice.” And all the while we’re told that slippery slopes don’t exist, or that the point we’ve now reached is not on a slope at all.
Falls can be terribly subtle.
Slip Slidin’ Away
But how did a local Black church get to the point where it (a) calls a female pastor, (b) sees that pastor marry another woman, and (c) no one knows it until after the fact? Falls that deep don’t happen overnight. They can be terribly subtle. We can find ourselves sliding down a very slippery slope of unfaithfulness in four easy steps.
You can read the rest of this excellent peice here-Slopes Really Are Slippery, Folks : The Front Porch
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