Washington National Cathedral denounced for hosting Max Lucado: Why we must never concede the high ground of truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
The Washington National Cathedral was recently denounced for hosting evangelical pastor and author Max Lucado. Today's podcast explains why, then we examine some scientific, biological, and factual reasons why biblical morality is right and best for us all.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.3 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | The Washington National Cathedral recently came under fire for inviting evangelical pastor |
| 0:25.7 | and author Max Lucado to speak. |
| 0:28.3 | The reason, his biblical views on marriage, a petition that amassed more than 1,600 signatures |
| 0:35.0 | claimed, Lucado's teachings and preachings inflicts active harm on LGBT |
| 0:40.7 | people. While the cathedral's dean allowed Lukato to speak, he assured critics that the |
| 0:46.7 | church's commitment to the LGBT community is unshakable and unchanged. Yesterday, I noted that one evangelical response to cultural opposition |
| 0:57.7 | is to defend our religious liberty, a valuable and urgent task being performed by some of the |
| 1:04.8 | finest Christian legal organizations in America. However, to our critics, we are merely seeking the right to be wrong. As a result, |
| 1:14.1 | we must also persuade our skeptical culture that we seek the right to be right. This battle begins at |
| 1:21.2 | home. A few decades ago, it was conventional wisdom that sex was reserved for monogamous marriage between a man and a woman. |
| 1:32.8 | Few were familiar with bisexual, transgender, or queer issues. However, no movement in my lifetime has achieved such a radical cultural reversal as the LGBTQ revolution. |
| 1:45.8 | In 1999, 35% of Americans approved of same-sex marriage, while 62% disapproved. |
| 1:54.4 | By 2020, the numbers had more than flipped, 67% approved, while 31% disapproved. Millennials are more than twice as likely to favor |
| 2:05.1 | same-sex marriage as their grandparents. It is conventional wisdom today that LGBT |
| 2:11.0 | rights are human rights. Love is love. Your sexual orientation and or gender identity is your business, not mine. |
| 2:21.0 | No one, including evangelical Christians, has the right to impose their beliefs on you. |
| 2:27.2 | At most, evangelicals can claim the First Amendment protection of religious freedom and free speech, |
| 2:34.0 | but many in our culture |
| 2:35.2 | view this as merely the right to be wrong. Before we can convince our secular culture that |
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