ST. DAVIDS, Penn. (BNG, TAB) — Tony Campolo, a leader of the evangelical left who for years has famously disagreed with his wife about homosexuality, announced June 8 he now supports the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the church.
“It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the church,” said Campolo, 80, a professor emeritus at American Baptist-affiliated Eastern University in St. Davids, Pa.
Going a step further, Campolo said, “As a social scientist, I have concluded that sexual orientation is almost never a choice and I have seen how damaging it can be to try to ‘cure’ someone from being gay.”
He added his understanding that people “can and do read the scriptures very differently when it comes to controversial issues, and I am painfully aware that there are ways I could be wrong about this one.”
To read the full story, go to www.thealabamabaptist.org.
To read Campolo’s full statement, go to tonycampolo.org.
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#TonyCampolo wrote many books which ended up on the shelves of the bookstore at the church where I grew up, so this is interesting news.