Christians should certainly to be open to change — if they sincerely believe that past interpretations of their faith’s founding documents were wrong. But they should not do so based on political expediency, or because public opinion has shifted.
Bruni says that prominent gay philanthropist Mitchell Gold told him that “church leaders must be made ‘to take homosexuality off the sin list.'” It’s pretty clear that this is among the ultimate political goals of the gay rights agenda. It’s also something of a slippery slope in the eyes of the faithful. Why not take premarital sex off the sin list, too?
Well, why not? Because the Christian faith holds the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman among its most deeply important tenets. Period.
This doesn’t mean Christians should discriminate against people who have premarital sex, or people who marry someone of the same sex, or any other sort of person who does something that our faith views as a sin. Everyone is entitled to equal protection under the law. But none of that means Christians should change their fundamental beliefs to allow things that have been sins for 2,000 years to suddenly be a-okay.
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