“Well, I think what we’re talking about here is a long history of selective biblical literalism that takes certain passages or sentences, strands of the Bible, severs them from the heart and example of Jesus and ends up using that selective literalism to hurt people,” Gushee said.
Gushee - who in his 2014 book Changing Our Mindchronicled how after decades of defending the traditional evangelical position he came to believe that someone can be both Christian and gay - termed Graham’s remarks “hurtful and inappropriate” and said they represent “some kind of retrograde theology that continues to hurt people.”ĭavid Gushee (right) being interviewed by CNN’s Don Lemon.Īsked by CNN host Don Lemon - who is openly gay and recently announced plans to wed - why evangelical leaders don’t share his view, Gushee elaborated. “The core of the Christian faith is believing and following Jesus Christ, who God sent to be the Savior of the world,” Graham continued, “to save us from sin, to save us from hell, to save us from eternal damnation.” “The Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman - not two men, not two women.” “As a Christian I believe the Bible, which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized,” Graham said. Graham, a leading evangelical supporter of President Donald Trump, posted a series of tweets questioning Buttigieg’s description of himself as a gay Christian. David Gushee, distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, commented on tweets by Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the humanitarian agency Samaritan’s Purse, challenging Buttigieg’s claim that if people object to his sexual orientation, their quarrel “is with my creator.”
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