Some progressive sites are criticizing Sojourners after it declined to run an advertisement urging mainline churches to welcome gay members.
Robert Chase took up the issue at Religion Dispatches where he noted that the ad came from Believe Out Loud, a mainline Protestant parachurch organization.
So, you can imagine our dismay when Sojourners refused to run our ads. In a written statement, Sojourners said, "I'm afraid we'll have to decline. Sojourners position is to avoid taking sides on this issue. In that care [sic], the decision to accept advertising may give the appearance of taking sides."
Taking sides? ... I can't imagine Sojourners turning down an ad that called for welcome of poor children into our churches. So why is this boy different?
Jim Naughton at Episcopal Cafe says that Jim Wallis no longer speaks for progressives, if he ever did.
It would seem to me that if you can't bring yourself to say that LGBT people shouldn't be chased out of our churches you have no business passing ...1
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