Al Mohler:

United Church of Christ on Verge of Embracing Same-Sex Marriage

Those watching the United Church of Christ [UCC] know that the denomination has been moving steadily leftward for decades. Nevertheless, the official endorsement of same-sex marriage represents something genuinely historic and genuinely tragic.

Mohler uses the word “tragic” to describe the UCC’s “endorsement” of same-sex marriage. While I seriously doubt that, I am even more apalled at the omission in Mohler’s theology of the true tragdey of Christians who think it is fine to kill for whatever reason their country’s leaders say are “justified”. That the virtually OPPOSITE was rather clearly spelled out by Christ (as in “Christ-ian”), to so totally subsume one’s theology under and beneath that of “the world” and of “nations” is such a tragedy, not only in terms of theology and the representation of Christ, but also a tragedy in the level of evil this allows to happen. It would be one thing if EVERY Christian spoke out and truly asked “What would Jesus do?”, and the government still did the same (which it may well have found a way to do—- I can’t help but think that it would have been much more difficult politically)….even then, the blood would not be on the hands of “Christians”. Thus the tragedy. Thus my absolute disgust at the lack of Christ-liuke-ness of the American Church.