Conservative Evangelicals are often perceived as hating gays, a charge they reject but one which is very difficult to deny considering how they behave and the things they say. Some evangelicals, however, acknowledge that there good reasons to come to such a conclusion, even if it isn't really true.
Baptist Press News reports on a speech given by Joe Dallas:
"I find to this day that there is a certain wrath Christians often express towards this sin that they do not express towards other sins -- both sexual and non-sexual. And that's a problem. It's an imbalance," said Dallas ... The message, though, must be balanced with love, he said. He recounted how once, when he was a guest on Hank Hanegraaff's radio program, he heard an audio clip of a preacher saying that God was "going to destroy the homosexual community with fire" by a particular year. The audience applauded, Dallas said. That year already has passed. "It's chilling that people could actually applaud the notion that a whole group of people was going to be destroyed," Dallas said. "That's a far cry from opposing homosexual sin. That's rejoicing in the idea that homosexuals are going to die.
It's nice to see a conservative evangelical recoil at the violent language and imagery used by some when discussing homosexuality. I disagree with his basic position, of course, but the conservative evangelical movement could use more moderating messages like this. It might cause fewer people to dislike evangelical Christians so much.
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