Gay activist says church leaders “must be made to take homosexuality off the sin list”

By John Lanagan

[This video is included because, ironically, Carl Lentz of Hillsong, by refusing to speak publically about homosexual sin, is in effect acquiescing to the demands of the gay activist.]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtkcFE5TaA

A New York Times columnist recently opined that “our debate about religious freedom should include a conversation about freeing religions and religious people from prejudices that they needn’t cling to and can indeed jettison, much as they’ve jettisoned other aspects of their faith’s history, rightly bowing to the enlightenments of modernity.”

According to the article, a gay philanthropist told the columnist “that church leaders must be made ‘to take homosexuality off the sin list.'” [2] (bold mine)

Change the Bible? Exclude homosexuality as sin from certain verses?

Actually, this has already happened via The Message “Bible.” The Message flat out deletes homosexuality from two key New Testament passages and gives a politically correct spin to a third.

It is no coincidence that Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong NYC uses The Message so much. Hillsong seeks to please the world by remaining silent on the issue of homosexuality.

Above is Dr. James White’s YouTube piece on Hillsong’s Carl Lentz’s use of a non-existent phrase found only in The Message. Lentz  emphasizes this made-up phrase to rationalize Hillsong’s refusal to publically deal with homosexuality as sin.

You can also read more about Hillsong’s politically correct silence and the deletions, additions, and altered passages in The Message (1 Cor 6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:8-11, Romans 1:25-27) in this short online booklet: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=16449

Source Notes:

1. Bigotry, the Bible, and the Lessons of Indiana, 4/3/15, by Frank Bruni  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-same-sex-sinners.html?

2. Ibid.