Baptist Sociologist Tony Campolo raised a ruckus in Roanoke by telling the Baptist General Association of Virginia he opposed California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and believes its passage was counterproductive.
Compolo told 1,200 messengers that Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan requires them to welcome the poor, Muslims and gays as neighbors. He said "The Samaritans were those who were considered spiritually unclean, abominations in the eyes of God," and observed that today’s "Samaritans" include Muslims and gays.
According to the Associated Baptist Press, he explained:
"I believe that same-gender erotic behavior is contrary to the teaching of God," he went on to say. “You might ask, 'If you believe that way, didn’t people like you and me win [with Proposition 8]?' What did we win? ... We won tens of thousands of gays and lesbians parading up and down the streets of San Francisco and New York and L.A. screaming against the church, seeing the church as enemy."
Yet his role as an evangelical, Compolo asserted, is "to win them to Christ ... we’re not going to win them to Christ if we keep sending them bad messages, and we’ve sent them a bad message."
Compolo on Canadian Broadcasting's The Hour making similar points earlier this year:
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