Emerging Marriage

For those of you who are still on the fence regarding the possible dangers of the Emergent Church Movement, and some of its leaders, this post is intended to kick you off. In a dialogue with Rod Dreher, Tony Jones (one of the leaders of this movement) made the following statement:

"I now believe that GLBTQ [people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and queer] can live lives in accord with biblical Christianity (at least as much as any of us can!) and that their monogamy can and should be sanctioned and blessed by church and state."

In response to this quote, Justin Taylor said that he was reminded of the following verse:

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
--Isaiah 5:20

At some point, we have to begin calling such propositions coming from this movement (and elsewhere in Christendom) exactly what they are: evil, dark, and bitter.