This week’s Revoice conference in St. Louis, USA, has hit the headlines for offering support to ‘gay Christians’.But this conference openly declares that it doesn’t want to push liberal views. They are evangelicals. Revoice wants to see believers “flourish while observing the historic, Christian doctrine of marriage and sexuality”. The conference is clear that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that sexual activity is only appropriate in that context.
Wanting to support Christians who experience same-sex attraction is entirely commendable. But the term ‘gay Christian’ is deeply problematic.
For a start, it is misleading and naïve. The Church is under huge pressure to compromise on sexuality. And while the Revoice conference may understand what it means when it talks about LGBT Christians, the watching world does not. It interprets this as the Church welcoming an unbiblical lifestyle. ...