This appeared in The Huffington Post in April of 2014. The political right wing is simply playing with the topic, including Huckabee. They don't want to appear to have abandoned unreasonable. I don't know when they were going to get around to stating they accept Same Sex Marriage, perhaps as an October Surprise.
April 9, 2014
By Sarah Pullian Bailey
(RNS) World Vision (click here) found itself testing the evangelical boundaries in March when it announced it would recognize employees’ same-sex marriages. Within 48 hours, it reversed itself.
At its core, the reversal raised a stark question: Can you be an evangelical and support same-sex marriage?
Reverberations from the policy flip-flop continue to unfold. Last week, Jacquelline Fuller, director of corporate giving at Google, resigned from the international relief organization’s board. Faithful America, an online Christian community focused on social justice, had gathered 16,000 signatures calling for Fuller and John Park, another Google employee who sits on the World Vision board, to step down.
“Jacquelline Fuller did the right thing by resigning from the board of an organization whose values don’t align with Google’s commitment to inclusivity and equality,” Michael Sherrard, director of Faithful America, said in a statement. “Now it’s time for John Park to follow suit.”...
Right wingers are being proved to be highly discriminatory in regard to this issue.
May 27, 2015
By Caitlin Dewy
Chuck Johnson, (click here) the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter - this time for good.
On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to "take out" the civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who's been active in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo. Twitter has also suspended a series of Johnson's new accounts, including @citizentrolling and @freechucknow, prompting Johnson and his lawyers to threaten legal action and accuse the site of "censorship."...
April 9, 2014
By Sarah Pullian Bailey
(RNS) World Vision (click here) found itself testing the evangelical boundaries in March when it announced it would recognize employees’ same-sex marriages. Within 48 hours, it reversed itself.
At its core, the reversal raised a stark question: Can you be an evangelical and support same-sex marriage?
Reverberations from the policy flip-flop continue to unfold. Last week, Jacquelline Fuller, director of corporate giving at Google, resigned from the international relief organization’s board. Faithful America, an online Christian community focused on social justice, had gathered 16,000 signatures calling for Fuller and John Park, another Google employee who sits on the World Vision board, to step down.
“Jacquelline Fuller did the right thing by resigning from the board of an organization whose values don’t align with Google’s commitment to inclusivity and equality,” Michael Sherrard, director of Faithful America, said in a statement. “Now it’s time for John Park to follow suit.”...
Right wingers are being proved to be highly discriminatory in regard to this issue.
May 27, 2015
By Caitlin Dewy
Chuck Johnson, (click here) the far-right mega-troll who doxed two New York Times reporters and argued that homosexuality caused the Amtrak derailment, may at last be off Twitter - this time for good.
On Sunday, Johnson was permanently suspended from the site after asking for funds to "take out" the civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, who's been active in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo. Twitter has also suspended a series of Johnson's new accounts, including @citizentrolling and @freechucknow, prompting Johnson and his lawyers to threaten legal action and accuse the site of "censorship."...
