The Tim Farron affair: Are evangelicals no longer welcome in politics? David Robertson & Jonathan Bartley

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🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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During his time as leader of the Liberal Democrat party, Tim Farron was repeatedly questioned about his views on homosexuality and gay sex. When he resigned he said “To be a political leader and to live as a committed Christian, has felt impossible for me”. On a recent Premier Christian Radio interview he reignited the controversy by stating that he regrets saying that gay sex was not a sin. Revd David Robertson of Solas Centre for Public Christianity and Jonathan Bartley of the Green Party react to the interview. David believes that Christians are being discriminated against if they diverge from society’s current views on sexuality. Jonathan, who is also a Christian, doesn’t believe that discrimination is happening and conservative Christians need to get used to new realities. For the Tim Farron Interview: https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Tim-Farron-Q-A-Why-I-resigned-why-it-matters-and-what-I-should-have-said-about-gay-sex For David Robertson: https://theweeflea.com/ For Jonathan Bartley: https://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/leaders-of-green-party.html Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:06.1	Welcome long to Unbelievably, it's Saturday afternoon. This is the time of the week when
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0:41.2	the 19th of May into your diary and I'll be telling you full details about it very soon.
0:46.2	Some exciting speakers who are going to be joining us. And I'm out at an apologetics
0:50.6	event actually in Canada later in March. And so I'm going to be talking about that a bit
0:56.6	later on in the show when I'll be speaking to Andy Steiger of Apologetics Canada. Listen
1:00.7	out for that a little later on in the program. Now this week on the show, we were due to
1:05.9	start a two-part debate between Greg Boyd, Theologian and Paul Copan, who's another Theologian
1:11.5	apologist on Greg Boyd's new book, The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. Well, we're postponing
1:16.2	it just one more week. So all of you people who are desperately looking forward to that,
1:19.9	I'm going to have to disappoint you and say, listen out next week. It'll be coming. And
1:24.5	it's really interesting discussion actually between them. So look out for that same time
1:27.9	next week. We're doing something a bit different today because there's something that happened
1:31.5	in the news. Let me introduce my guests and the theme of today's show.
1:35.5	You're unbelievable. So we're talking today about the Tim Farran affair. Are evangelical
1:41.7	Christians no longer welcome in politics? We're asking. Last year following the general
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