{"id":25850,"date":"2015-08-07T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=25850"},"modified":"2015-08-07T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:41:22","slug":"april-24-2015-evangelicals-lgbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/08\/07\/april-24-2015-evangelicals-lgbt\/25850\/","title":{"rendered":" Evangelicals and LGBT Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What challenges does growing social acceptance of same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues pose for evangelicals? In a historic ruling in June, a divided US Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal across the country. Religious groups had filed briefs on both sides of the issue. R&amp;E visited Nashville, Tennessee to report on the extent to which evangelicals are reexamining their views about sexuality, marriage, and LGBT acceptance. Correspondent Kim Lawton talks to singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission, Matthew Vines, author of \u201cGod and the Gay Christian,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic ruling in June, a divided Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal in every state. \u201cChristianity require you to push back against the world,\u201d says Collin Hansen of the Gospel Coalition. But author Matthew Vines of the Reformation Project suggests that once even some evangelicals are willing to change their position, then \u201cit starts to significantly shift the dynamic.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/08\/07\/april-24-2015-evangelicals-lgbt\/25850\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":25898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1050,8792,1379,5180],"class_list":["post-25850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-evangelicals","tag-russell-moore","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-us-supreme-court","topics-culture-and-society","topics-politics","topics-religious-leaders","topics-us-domestic-issues","faith-christian","faith-evangelical"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Evangelicals and LGBT Acceptance | April 24, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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