Christian group pulls support for event challenging homosexuality
Dan Gilgoff
CNN
(CNN) - A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to "counter the promotion of homosexual behavior" because the event has become too divisive and confrontational, the group's president told CNN on Wednesday.
"All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they'd like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not," said Alan Chambers, President of Exodus International, the group that sponsored the event this year.
Called the Day of Truth, the annual April event has been pushed by influential conservative Christian groups as a way to counter to the annual Day of Silence, an event promoted by gay rights advocates to highlight threats against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
The Day of Truth, held on the same day as the Day of Silence, "was established to counter the promotion of homosexual behavior and to express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective," according to a manual for this year's event published by Exodus International.
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"All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors as they'd like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not,"
Nice. When you're done with the kids, how about trying to equip the grown ups as well?
Congrats for that decision! Now we can take all these christian groups very serious because they show that they care for people and not for their agendas! Respect to you!
If the "christians" are truly serious this is a welcome justure. Time well be the judge there sincerity.
Wonderful news. Score one for love and acceptance in the name of God. Thanks for the story, Dan.