Wonders never cease!

Instead of railing against the NY Times for their lengthy piece on young gay marriage, anti-gay activist Albert Mohler, who previously pondered homo genetic cleansing, offers a fairly measured, moderate reflection:

"Young Gay Rites" is itself a noteworthy signal about the future of marriage. If [author Benoit] Denizet-Lewis is right, the legalization of same-sex marriage is changing the ways some homosexuals are living their lives. In other words, same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is changing homosexual culture in some unexpected ways.

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It's been a while since we heard from R. Albert Mohler Jr., the Southern Baptist Theology Seminary president who advocated anti-gay genetic cleansing. Mohler previously appeared in this semi-regular column when he took aim at gay Anglican Gene Robinson.

Now Mohler's lamenting society's "sliding" morality. Citing a Boston Globe Magazine piece on the rise of gay teens, as well as new data on pink political potentcy, Mohler implores his peers to arm themselves against America's not-so-slow descent into hell:

The moral landscape of the culture usually shifts slowly, with barely perceptible changes that accumulate over a long period of years. This is not the case in our own times, for the pace of moral change now defies the imagination.
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Evangelical Christians must meet this challenge with both biblical truth and a keen eye on the cultural shifts around us. Our current challenge is not only to tell the truth about homosexuality, but to recover any notion of a moral norm when it comes to sexuality. That will take more intellectual energy than the evangelical movement has yet devoted to this task.

We'd deride the Evangelical intellectual, but we know all too well how smart those slime balls can be. We'll rest easy, however, knowing that they can't agree on a presidential candidate. We hope Mohler's not a sore loser.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president R. Albert Mohler, Jr. on gay Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson:

Here we have a classic expression of an individual asserting his own autonomy over biblical authority. Gene Robinson does not really care what the Bible has to say about his homosexuality. Indeed, he has conceded that the Bible condemns homosexual activity, but also asserts that the Bible should not have the last word in the matter. To the contrary, Robinson and his allies package his election and consecration as bishop as a great moral advance as the Episcopal Church (USA) leaves the dark ages of sexual repression and enters the brave new world of celebrated homosexuality.
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Robinson may now claim his office as the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, but his real claim to fame will be as the theologian-in-residence of the Church of Sodom and Gomorrah.

We'd say we're surprised by Mohler's claims, but we're not. We expect as much from a man who champions anti-gay genetic cleansing.