{"id":1753078,"date":"2022-11-28T03:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753078"},"modified":"2022-11-28T03:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T08:17:35","slug":"when-christian-leaders-capitulate-on-marriage-innocent-children-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-christian-leaders-capitulate-on-marriage-innocent-children-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"When Christian Leaders Capitulate On Marriage, Innocent Children Suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhen-christian-leaders-capitulate-on-marriage-innocent-children-suffer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Learning this month that 12 Senate Republicans had signed on with Democrats to advance the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act left many Christians stunned. Most shocking was the \u201cyes\u201d vote from Roy Blunt, a practicing Southern Baptist who served for three years as president of a small, private university in the theologically conservative denomination.<\/p>\n<p>How, many wondered, could a political leader with such deep roots in one of the most traditional branches of evangelicalism so publicly undermine the foremost human institution created by God? Those asking must not have been paying to the shift that has taken place in elite evangelical circles in recent years.<\/p>\n<p> Christianity Today\u2019s Initial Concession  <\/p>\n<p>One of the earliest signs that the commitment to defend biblical marriage was weakening came from Christianity Today CEO Timothy Dalrymple. In 2012, seven years before he took the helm of the publication founded by Billy Graham, he went on record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/philosophicalfragments\/2012\/11\/26\/is-it-time-for-evangelicals-to-stop-opposing-gay-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> that it might be \u201ctime to stop opposing same-sex marriage as a matter of law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dalrymple assured his readers that he\u2019s among those who believe \u201cit\u2019s biblically and theologically clear that marriage was created and ordained by God for the union of male and female.\u201d But he also encouraged them to \u201chumbly acknowledge the limitations of our knowledge, and recognize the possibility that we are mistaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling marriage an issue of \u201csecondary importance,\u201d he went on to say that Christians need to ask themselves \u201cwhether it is still wise to press for American law to recognize only heterosexual unions.\u201d He worried that continuing to insist on marriage as founded by God would \u201charm our witness\u201d and suggested the church\u2019s credibility might be better spent on more important issues.<\/p>\n<p>Note, Dalrymple was suggesting believers should capitulate on the issue of marriage three years <em>before<\/em> the Supreme Court discovered that gay partners have a constitutional right to have the government\u2019s blessing on their affection (though, interestingly, only months after former President Barack Obama announced he had evolved on the question of whether the state should legalize gay marriage).<\/p>\n<p>A key factor, Dalrymple said, is that homosexual unions don\u2019t have clear victims, as abortion does. He closed the essay by intimating that he was still working out his views on whether it is worth continuing to argue for the biblical definition of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>By February 2019, three months before he officially ascended to the top position at Christianity Today, there were signs he had settled those views. It was then that Dalrymple traveled to Mexico to attend the wedding ceremony of a gay co-worker officiated by prominent LGBT-affirming pastor and author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanmerritt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jonathan Merritt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chandlerandmatthew.com\/photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pictures<\/a> posted on a public website are festive, even reverent, showing Dalrymple and his wife participating in a candle-lighting processional and hitting the dance floor with abandon in honor of the two men. It seems worth reiterating that the wedding involved not a relative, but a co-worker. Thus, Dalrymple was presumably under no familial pressure to attend. The wedding was also in another country, providing a fairly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What French never acknowledges and Dalrymple barely considers is what happens after weddings. 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