Murray Richmond preached against it, until he talked to gay men
(NEWSER) - When Murray Richmond became a Presbyterian minister in 1989, "homosexuality was an invisible issue," he writes for Salon . But over the next five years, "it became The Issue," and Richmond found himself forced to choose a side—and chose the "incredibly obvious" one, he recalls. "It seemed clear that I could not fully accept, ordain, and marry gays." But as he voted, year after year, to "hold the traditional line and limit the role of gays in the church," he "felt increasingly uncomfortable. What I believed was biblically correct began to feel less and less right in my heart." More»
