SELL OUT!: NAE & CCCU WITH SOUTHERN BAPTIST RUSSELL MOORE’S “ERLC” SUPPORT EXPANSION OF GAY RIGHTS UNDER FEDERAL LAW AS A COMPROMISE WITH SODOMITES

 Russell Moore with the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization that just 
supported an expansion of LGBTQ “rights” in the name of religious liberty. 

In the name of preserving their “religious freedom,” two prominent
evangelical groups have adopted rules capitulating on the issue of
sodomy in order to not face possible negative consequences in the
future. Agreeing not to act on their convictions toward the LGBTQ, the organizations hope to be allowed to still have their convictions quietly.

One wonders what the point of religious freedom is when you surrender your liberty of conscience at the first sign of hardship.

Acting quietly, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
(CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have formally
endorsed principles that would add sexual orientation and gender
identity (SOGI) to federal nondiscrimination law. One of these groups,
the NAE, is heavily endorsed by Russell Moore and partners with the
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). of the Southern Baptist
Convention.

Shirley Mullen, the president of Houghton College and a board member
of both the CCCU and NAE, said, “As Christian higher educators, we are
increasingly persuaded that the most viable political strategy
is for comprehensive religious freedom protections to be combined with
explicit support for basic human rights for members of the LGBT
community.”

Political strategy.

And all of God’s people said…barf.

Of course, neither the CCCU nor the NAE have
in any way denied “basic human rights for members of the LGBT
community.” No homosexual has been denied human rights by these
organizations.  
Mullen and others representing the two boards are trying
to make it seem that they’re just affirming broad human rights, but in fact
they are capitulating on the sinfulness of sodomy. This is, in part,
responsible for both groups keeping their decision to make
LGBT-affirming statements quiet.

World Mag obtained the document agreed upon by the two organizations entitled, Fairness for All Motion. The document repudiates “unjust discrimination” towards those practicing sexual deviancy.

What is “unjust discrimination,” you might ask? Surely, that’s a
loaded term, especially in a document designed to be waved like a white
flag of surrender. The document goes on to explain, “These rights include basic legal and human rights related to housing, credit, jury duty and employment…”

This means that Christian homeowners would have to rent homes to
Sodomites and Christian-owned businesses could not decline to hire a
sodomite or crossdressser on the grounds that they’re sinful or gross.
So in the name of “religious liberty,” the CCCU and NAE are surrendering
their religious liberty to discriminate (yes, discriminating for
religious reasons is a First Amendment right) wholesale.

With liberty like that, who needs slavery?

The document is candid about its purpose. It’s trading LGBT inclusion
for religious liberty like 30 pieces of silver. The document says:

This proposed legislation seeks to
secure basic human rights for the LGBT community at the national level
in exchange for strong and perpetual protections for religious freedom.

Judas Priests, they are.

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is highly endorsed by
Russell Moore and partners with the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty
Commission.

You can see Russell Moore’s endorsement of NAE here and view it below.

Moore writes, “When the NAE speaks, it is with careful theological
reflection and with a tone that never compromises the gospel of Christ
or the mission of the church. As the Body of Christ engages often
complex questions facing civil society, it is a blessing to have a
strong, unifying, biblically-anchored ally in the National Association
of Evangelicals.”

The Fairness for All Motion is the epitome of everything wrong with
today’s spineless, feckless, traitorous evangelicals. Born without
courage and void of intestinal fortitude, these evanjellyfish have just
offered to surrender our conscience for the right to have one.

They have surrendered their right to act upon their conviction for the right to simply state their conviction. Ultimately, that’s really no religious freedom at all.

For why we should never surrender our convictions in the name of
“religious liberty,” listen to JD Hall’s sermon at the 2015 Reformation
Montana Conference below. In the sermon, he spoke of Russell Moore and
the ERLC’s allies who would ultimately give up their convictions in the
name of liberty.

Listen here.
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SEE ALSO:
 “FAIRNESS FOR ALL” DOCUMENT:
https://world.wng.org/sites/default/files/assets/NAEBoardResolution_0.pdf 
AND:
 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/16/how-evangelical-capitulation-equals-the-loss-of-re/
https://thekcompany.co/news-release/the-christian-post-nae-and-cccu-boards-back-lgbt-compromise-for-religious-freedom-exemptions/ 
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/religious-liberty-fairness-for-all-sellout-politics-lgbt-gay-rights/ 
https://world.wng.org/2016/11/fairness_for_all_or_a_few 
 https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20181214/fair-mess
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December 14, 2018

Compromise isn’t always a bad idea. (Ask any married couple!) But
when it comes to the black and white of Scripture, nothing is more
dangerous than a group of Christians willing to negotiate on truth.
Their motivations may not be bad — but the consequences almost always
are.

In a culture like ours, where a single cake could ruin your business,
no one can blame Christians for being worried. With every headline, the
war over religious liberty is hitting closer and closer to home. It’s
landed on the doorsteps of florist shops, adoption agencies, French
classes, pro sports — even pizza joints. And the threat is always the
same: affirm or be punished. While so many Christians stand their
ground, others are willing to do anything to spare themselves the fight
— even if it means surrendering their core convictions to do it.

Earlier this week, World magazine broke the story
that two organizations — the Council for Christian Colleges and
Universities (CCCU) and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)
— have decided that the only way to stop LGBT activists is to submit to
them. In a quiet motion this fall,
their boards reportedly voted to subjugate biblical teachings on gender
and sexuality in exchange for a flimsy fence of protection around their
organizations. They believe — quite naively — that if they give in to
the Left’s demands, it will leave them alone. But the stories from the last decade paint a much different story.

On the far-Left, there’s no such thing as live and let live. Liberals
may want tolerance, but that doesn’t mean they’ll give it. If the cases
against florists, bakers, and other wedding vendors make anything
clear, it’s that the LGBT agenda isn’t about meeting people halfway. So
while “Fairness for All” is a noble pursuit, it can’t be achieved when
special rights or extra-fairness are extended to some based on
subjective, self-defined characteristics. That’s special fairness for
some, and the persecution of the many.

“They’re trying to find a way to encourage the federal government to
adopt sexual orientation and gender identity protections that would not
come at the violation of religious liberty,” Al Mohler writes
in a lengthy response everyone should read. “Now that sounds like the
perfect deal politically, if it were possible… [But] it is not
possible. You can state, as many will, that it is well intended. But a
well-intended mistake is still a mistake. A well-intended wound to
religious liberty is still a wound. And that’s what we’re looking at
here.”

Unfortunately, what we’re also looking at is the complete abandonment
of the Christian commission. In this day and age, everyone struggles to
convey an exclusive gospel in an inclusive world. But the solution
isn’t abandoning or changing the message — it’s conforming to it. If
these organizations give up their core beliefs, what’s the point of
carving out religious liberty protections? They won’t stand for anything
worth protecting! “For what partnership have righteousness and
lawlessness,” 2 Corinthians 6 asks, “or what fellowship has light with
darkness?”

It’s human nature to avoid discomfort, but capitulations like this cause deeper pain later on. Look at the Boy Scouts.
Five years after they expanded their ranks for inclusion’s sake,
they’re packing up their tents and going home. Teetering on bankruptcy,
unfocused, and unpopular, they’re miles away from the organization that
used to be one of America’s proudest.

Even so, some Christians are willing to take the same path — all to
save a tiny patch of ground that won’t mean anything when they’re done.
“It’s a way of religious leaders saying we’re going to protect our
churches, our denominations, and [our] most closely-held ministries…
but…” 
Mohler warns, “[w]hen it comes to Christians in the marketplace,
Christians in the workplace… and all the rest, we’re going to say
you’ll simply have to defend yourself in court. We’ll hope for the
best.” These groups would sell their identity for crumbs — and offer up
men and women who are willing to stand on truth
as a sacrifice in the process. 
 Circling the wagons around religious
institutions implies that we have an anemic First Amendment that falls
short of guarantying that religious freedom to each and every American.
Surely, we did not come this far in the defense of religious liberty to
leave bakers, photographers, and thousands of other Christians twisting
in the wind.

A partial gospel is no gospel at all. “How long will you go limping
between two different opinions?” I Kings 18:21 says. “If the Lord is
God, follow him.” There will be a lot of pressure, in the coming days,
to wheel and deal on truth. But whoever gives up truth for the sake of
peace will almost certainly lose both.