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Mohler, colleagues publish e-book refuting new book, ‘ God   and   the  Gay Christian’ Cover of God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines, edited by R. Albert Mohler Jr. , published by SBTS Press as part of its new “CONVERSANT” series. A new book’s “exceedingly dangerous” assertions that homosexual orientation and gay marriage are consistent with a high view of the Bible is refuted by President R. Albert Mohler Jr. and four of his colleagues at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in an e-book, published today. God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines  released this morning, the same day as the official release of Vines’ volume,  God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships , which has garnered significant attention in the days leading up to its release. Vines, a 24-year-old former Harvard student, weaves his personal biography of growing up as an evangelical Christian and “...

English: Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) An article in the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly describes how churches affiliated with Unitarian/Universalist and Episcopal denominations have embraced same-sex relationships. But the embrace isn’t limited to liberal churches. For many younger evangelicals, “you can believe homosexuality is a sin and still believe that same-sex marriage should be legal.” Others take it one step further and say things like “Is Homosexuality a sin? I. Do. Not. Care.” As Erick Erickson of Red State.org put it, younger evangelicals “want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world.” For them, remaining silent about these issues is part of what it means to love your neighbor. Well, Al Mohler begs to differ. In a recent piece on his website, Mohler asked “can we count on evangelicals to remain steadfastly biblical on [the issue of homosexuality]?” His reply: “Not hardly.” He n...