William Stacy Johnson, in his October 9th commentary “Our Tortured, War-Torn Conscience” in the Presbyterian Outlook, writes:
Let me put it plainly. There is something wrong with a church that can whip itself up into a frenzy arguing about gays but then shrug its shoulders over war and torture. In 1933 Karl Barth said that if one is not preaching against the concentration camps, one is not preaching the gospel. Likewise, a church that is ambivalent or undecided about torture and unjust war is something less than a church of Jesus Christ.
The commentary has good food for thought (whatever your view about gays, frankly). I’d commend it.
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