{"id":2241600,"date":"2024-05-10T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presbyterian-church-in-america-invites-professional-polarizer-david-french-to-lecture-christians-on-getting-along\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T08:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:05:57","slug":"presbyterian-church-in-america-invites-professional-polarizer-david-french-to-lecture-christians-on-getting-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presbyterian-church-in-america-invites-professional-polarizer-david-french-to-lecture-christians-on-getting-along\/","title":{"rendered":"PCA Invites David French to Speak on Unity Among Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fpresbyterian-church-in-america-invites-professional-polarizer-david-french-to-lecture-christians-on-getting-along%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=2241600&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>The Presbyterian Church in America&#8217;s annual General Assembly will convene in Richmond, Virginia, to address key church issues. Non-Presbyterian speaker David French, known for his\u200b polarizing views, \u2062prompts controversy as a\u2062 panelist. \u200dConcerns arise over\u2063 his past statements and affiliations. The \u200dPCA faces scrutiny for inviting French despite potential conflicts with the \u2063denomination&#8217;s\u2064 values. The Presbyterian Church\u200c in America&#8217;s upcoming General \u2062Assembly in Richmond, Virginia, will focus on crucial church\u200b matters. However, the \u2062inclusion of David French, a non-Presbyterian with contentious views, as a panelist raises concerns. \u2062His past statements and \u200bassociations are under scrutiny, sparking debate over his compatibility with the denomination&#8217;s principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>One month from today, Presbyterian leaders will gather in Richmond, Virginia, for the Presbyterian Church in America\u2019s annual General Assembly to discuss and debate church issues and decide on matters of importance. One attendee, nay speaker, however, is decidedly not Presbyterian.<\/p>\n<p>That little ray of sunshine is David French \u2014 the Army JAG (in case you didn\u2019t know)-turned-religious liberty litigator-turned-writer whose brain has been so corrupted by Trump derangement that he sold out to The New York Times and The Atlantic, where his columns are indistinguishable from the dishonest drivel of the legacy press\u2019s anti-religious religion reporters. In a phrase, he\u2019s a regular accuser of the brethren.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1305346061\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d05287b8a93b986aa47e3515c627e1fe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d05287b8a93b986aa47e3515c627e1fe\"><\/div>\n<p>French makes political polarization his personal brand, so it\u2019s curious that the PCA has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PCAByFaith\/status\/1788570446712938559\">invited<\/a> him to be a panelist at an assembly-wide seminar called \u201cHow to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year.\u201d Is the denomination unaware that French\u2019s family publicly left the PCA because it\u2019s a \u201chostile\u201d congregation of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/16\/nancy-french-ghosted-book-cancer-david-french\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neo-Confederates<\/a>\u201c? <\/p>\n<p>If the PCA knew this and invited him anyway, shame on them. And if they somehow didn\u2019t know because their heads are buried that far in the sand \u2014 unlikely, especially considering the PCA\u2019s leftward decline, but I repeat myself \u2014 double shame.<\/p>\n<p>So I emailed the PCA General Assembly and its Administrative Committee\u2019s head Bryan Chapell that very question and received no response. An email obtained by The Federalist that was apparently sent to many people who complained about the French pick, however, said the PCA is \u201ccurrently seeking to discern the accuracy of concerns that have been expressed to this office since the [French] announcement,\u201d and a PCA spokesman has \u201casked those who have expressed concerns about Mr. French taking unbiblical positions to provide documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s documentation they want, allow me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6c5ee8bd40a76a1e9b976815bc1ed72a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6c5ee8bd40a76a1e9b976815bc1ed72a\"><\/div>\n<p>Long before French became a willing participant in atheist Rob Reiner\u2019s anti-Trump \u201cdocumentary\u201d \u201cGod &#038; Country\u201d earlier this year, he was invoking white guilt to toss a cohort of Christians who vote differently than he does into the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/23\/stop-smearing-christians-as-christian-nationalists-just-because-they-value-both-faith-and-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christian nationalism<\/a>\u201d basket. Evangelicals (specifically white ones) who were hesitant about getting the rushed and mandated Covid jab were actually \u201creluctant to consider the health of their community\u201d and had a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/12\/lets-not-assume-christian-vaccine-refusal-is-a-spiritual-problem\/\">spiritual problem<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks after radical pro-abortion and pro-transgender candidate Joe Biden became the presumptive Democrat nominee in 2020, French <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1251905773359304704\">said<\/a> those who favored Trump were of low character and competence \u2014 even though, as Nathaniel Blake <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/04\/24\/david-french-needs-to-stop-slandering-trump-supporting-christians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in these pages, French was previously \u201cbehind \u2018Evangelicals for Mitt\u2019 and spent years arguing that our political leaders need not be avatars for our beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p>Then there\u2019s French\u2019s evolution on so-called \u201cgay marriage\u201d in federal law. He says his views on traditional, biblical marriage have not changed. But during the fight over the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act \u2014 which requires every state and the federal government to recognize homosexual \u201cmarriages\u201d and was signed into law by French-endorsed President Biden \u2014 French claimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Religious belief is not the same thing as declaring civil law. \u2026 I don\u2019t want the law to discriminate against those Americans who sincerely hold different views of sexual morality, sexuality, and marriage and organize their lives and their institutions accordingly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Megan Basham <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/28\/when-christian-leaders-capitulate-on-marriage-innocent-children-suffer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in The Federalist at the time, \u201cIn other words, he makes the same argument about marriage that Catholics Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have about abortion \u2014 he has personal views based on his faith but does not want those views, however endorsed they may be by the Creator of the universe, to be reflected in U.S. statute.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-26322c2978a1e98b5a19913da999e129 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-26322c2978a1e98b5a19913da999e129\"><\/div>\n<p>He didn\u2019t stop there, though. French thinks now that the institution has been legally desecrated, it should stay that way forever: \u201cIt would be profoundly disruptive and unjust to rip out the legal superstructure around which [gay Americans] ordered their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While David French was a senior editor of The Dispatch, the NeverTrump publication performed a dishonest \u201cindependent fact-check\u201d of pre-2020 election advertisements from the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, which exposed Biden and Kamala Harris\u2019 support for abortion until birth. Facebook then <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/16\/nevertrump-website-the-dispatch-colludes-with-big-tech-to-censor-sba-lists-pro-life-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used that fake fact-check to censor<\/a> the pro-life ads.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/david-french\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plenty more where that came from<\/a>. From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1443944083521744900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launching<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/how-twitter-contributed-to-david-frenchs-destruction-of-his-own-character\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">character assassinations<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2021\/11\/kyle-rittenhouse-right-self-defense-role-model\/620715\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">going after the weak<\/a>, to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/07\/its-critical-race-theory-that-is-un-american-not-laws-banning-it\/\">defending<\/a> the taxpayer-funded indoctrination of children with divisive racial politics, and more \u2014 the David \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/30\/courage-is-a-christians-only-path-forward-from-the-legal-hell-the-winsome-gospel-wrought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Winsome<\/a>\u201d French well never runs dry.<\/p>\n<p>But the Pharisaical metanarrative is a familiar one: a self-righteous religious leader who sets his own rules, measures his opponents by them, morphs those rules when it suits him, and then boisterously gives thanks that he\u2019s not like the unpalatable white Trump voters over there.<\/p>\n<p>French is not so much a regime handmaiden as he is a court eunuch who became so by choice and nonetheless thinks he is in a position to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/28\/if-conservatives-want-to-defend-manliness-they-better-know-what-it-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lecture<\/a> others on masculinity. He\u2019s a turncoat who scolds others about loyalty, a liar convinced he\u2019s the last honest man on Earth, and a party apparatchik whose vaunted principles always seem to align with his paychecks. <\/p>\n<p>In recent years, he\u2019s made a name for himself using Sunday \u2014 the traditional Christian day of rest and worship \u2014 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/david-french\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smear<\/a> the faithful for the unpardonable sin of believing God\u2019s law is superior to man\u2019s law. <\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s a shame the Presbyterian Church in America saw fit to grant French a pulpit from which to slime the faithful. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep\u2019s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves,\u201d the gospel of Matthew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+7:15-20&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warns<\/a>. The PCA isn\u2019t just ignoring that warning. They\u2019re giving the wolf a brand new wool coat and microphone and daring the sheep to object.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-62116bc6d63de944b19d6db88d034368 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-62116bc6d63de944b19d6db88d034368\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a month, Presbyterian leaders meet in Richmond for the PCA&#8217;s General Assembly to deliberate church matters. 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