The Reverand Who Supported Gay Marriage, Then Quit
“An outspoken and polarizing voice in conservative Christian politics resigned effective Thursday from the National Association of Evangelicals after a radio interview in which he voiced support for same-sex civil unions and said he is ‘shifting’ on gay marriage. The Rev. Richard Cizik’s comments — made on a Dec. 2 ‘Fresh Air’ broadcast on National Public Radio — triggered an uproar that led to his stepping down as NAE vice president of governmental affairs. A fixture in Washington for nearly three decades, Cizik has played a key role in bringing evangelical Christian concerns to the political table. But in recent years, he earned enemies in the movement for pushing to broaden the evangelical agenda. His strongest focus was on “creation care,” arguing that evangelicals have a biblical responsibility to the environment that includes combatting global warming.” [SF Gate]
ReverEND is the correct spelling. I guess Japhy never paid attention to spelling at NYU. Hope you did not major in journalism….
Shame that a more reasonable conservative is having to give up job because he’s not self-serving enough. (That is to say, having sex with little boys.)
Damn this new McCarthyism thing! The gays are going to make everyone who disagrees with them resign, it’s just not American, dammit!
Uh, oh, wait. This guy was on the OTHER side? My bad. Carry on.
What’s the old adage?
“No good dead goes unpunished.”
And Newt Gingrich says there’s a “gay and secular fascism” in this country?
@Kid A: This is a fascinating story, and Kid A, yours is a terrific point. Here’s a prominent evangelical who suggests maybe there’s a coupla ways to think about all this and bam, he’s outta there.
Sometimes I think we don’t really need to do anything now, in terms of activism. It’s just all totally happening, happened, or soon to happen. And that’s because it’s right. “The arc of the moral universe . . ..”
But I do wish we hadn’t trashed that one church, odious though it was. I think that’s what Newt was bouncing off of. Hate is a bad thing, but I really dislike that self-important twat. Must be a contract requirement for Fox News. That and irrelevance.
Of course, engaged and intelligent and strategic activism must continue. I’m ancient, and one of the few reasons I’d like to live a long time is to see these outcomes: equality for everyone, everywhere; the end of war and poverty; our world, whole and healthy. And for people to realize that we don’t need religion. It’s nice to contemplate some sort of higher power, or force for good and creativity, but that’s all we need to do, just contemplate.
Christianity = The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your invisible soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree….
yea, makes perfect sense.