Re: Bigoted in Belltown
Josh reports that a congregant at the City Church in Belltown was “outraged” and “hung her head in shame” when her pastors made a pitch against gay marriage and passed out Tim Eyman’s anti-gay marriage petition in church this Sunday.
Wanting to find out more about how this congregant could have been so misled about what her church really believes, I took a quick look at City Church’s web site, which had this to say about the church’s beliefs:
We believe in the sanctity of marriage as established by the Holy Scriptures and that God created marriage and that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2-3; I Corinthians 7:10-11; Ephesians 5:22-33).
So a congregant at a conservative, evangelical megachurch was outraged that their conservative, evangelical pastor made a pitch in church for a conservative, evangelical belief that’s explicitly stated in the church’s mission statement.
Christians need to pay more attention to what their churches really teach, and less attention to the stylistic trappings (modern music, big-screen TVs, rock-club-style sanctuaries) that draw young people in.
For more on City Church’s beliefs (which include the assertion that the Scriptures are “infallibly and uniquely authoritative and free from error of any sort in all matters with which they deal, including scientific and historical,” and the belief in “the full historicity and perspicuity of the Biblical record of primeval history, including the literal existence of Adam and Eve as the progenitors of all people,” go here.
It's not an anti-gay marriage petition. It's an anti .... anti-discrimination petition.
The main point of my post, however, was that we tend to think the anti-gay rights movement is in the exurbs. I wanted to let people know that there's some demagoguery going on in urbane Bell Town too.