Comments on: Day of Truth http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/04/14/day-of-truth/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:36:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: BD http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/04/14/day-of-truth/#comment-79858 BD Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:22:26 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3070#comment-79858 I could have been more clear, Exodus shares board members and says it hasn't taken money from FotF. There is a lot of money to be made, you are correct, Love Won Out is the FotF flagship anti gay money maker. I'll correct that. "But his attorneys feel there's no need to go along with us on these procedural issues." Sums it up. A few steps back and a few deep breaths would be an excellent idea. I could have been more clear, Exodus shares board members and says it hasn’t taken money from FotF. There is a lot of money to be made, you are correct, Love Won Out is the FotF flagship anti gay money maker. I’ll correct that.

“But his attorneys feel there’s no need to go along with us on these procedural issues.”

Sums it up. A few steps back and a few deep breaths would be an excellent idea.

]]> By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/04/14/day-of-truth/#comment-79643 Mark Byron Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3070#comment-79643 <blockquote>Sponsoring groups are Focus on the Family and two of their spin-off organizations, The Family Research Council and Exodus International.</blockquote>The FRC is a spinoff, but Exodus seems to be merely a fellow traveler on the evangelical right. There's a bit of cross-contacts between Exodus folks and FotF folks, but it doesn't appear to be a FotF project. This might be another case of where spiritual warfare gets taken a bit too personally, for it's often hard not to take the combative route. The public schools err on the side of the gay-friendly groups, since it's hard for them to take the opposite side of the argument while staying morally neutral. Thus, you wind up seeing the religious conservatives having to ram their way in to the picture in order to get an alternative view in. This gets aggravated when you get the religious-conservative legal groups like the Alliance folks of the ACLJ of Jay Sekulow or the Rutherford Institute doing their papal-bull-in-the-china-shop routine. It would be nice to drop back five yards, get the lawyers from both sides out of the room, and have a civil discussion about being both polite towards gays and being polite towards people who think homosexuality is wrong. However, neither block wants to be civil towards the other.

Sponsoring groups are Focus on the Family and two of their spin-off organizations, The Family Research Council and Exodus International.

The FRC is a spinoff, but Exodus seems to be merely a fellow traveler on the evangelical right. There’s a bit of cross-contacts between Exodus folks and FotF folks, but it doesn’t appear to be a FotF project.

This might be another case of where spiritual warfare gets taken a bit too personally, for it’s often hard not to take the combative route.

The public schools err on the side of the gay-friendly groups, since it’s hard for them to take the opposite side of the argument while staying morally neutral. Thus, you wind up seeing the religious conservatives having to ram their way in to the picture in order to get an alternative view in. This gets aggravated when you get the religious-conservative legal groups like the Alliance folks of the ACLJ of Jay Sekulow or the Rutherford Institute doing their papal-bull-in-the-china-shop routine.

It would be nice to drop back five yards, get the lawyers from both sides out of the room, and have a civil discussion about being both polite towards gays and being polite towards people who think homosexuality is wrong. However, neither block wants to be civil towards the other.

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