> For every church I’ve been to, there’s an abundance of talk about love, acceptance, and forgiveness.
Denying that there's a problem is one of the reasons that people are being turned off from the church entirely. Yes, plenty of churches have resisted the tide of hatred and embraced inclusivity, and I commend them. But when I accompanied my father to church while visiting him, I was dismayed to find that the new pastor had laced the sermon with anti-gay fearmongering. That's not coming from nowhere, and it is abetted by people who want to believe that there is nothing amiss.
Denying that there's a problem is one of the reasons that people are being turned off from the church entirely. Yes, plenty of churches have resisted the tide of hatred and embraced inclusivity, and I commend them. But when I accompanied my father to church while visiting him, I was dismayed to find that the new pastor had laced the sermon with anti-gay fearmongering. That's not coming from nowhere, and it is abetted by people who want to believe that there is nothing amiss.