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Image via Wikipedia Anyone opposed to the acceptance of homosexual behavior as a healthy, normal, moral equivalent to heterosexuality is often accused of homophobia – an irrational fear of those engaged in homosexual behavior.   This same label is applied to any church that teaches biblical morality on the issue.  Recently, Bill Hybels , Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago , had to  defend  his church’s loving and biblical morality teachings against an attack from a homosexual activist who persuaded the head of Starbucks to breach his contract to speak at the church’s leadership summit.  Some churches, like Mt. Hope Church in East Lansing, Michigan , are sometimes even physically attacked  by radical groups who support the homosexual agenda like BashBack! (an indication of irrational fear on their part). But most pastors and churches I’m familiar with are like Willow Creek and love those caught up in homosexual behavior, wanting...

Image via Wikipedia Starbucks CEO  Howard Schultz  will no longer be one of the key speakers at this week's  Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit . He will be replaced by Pat Lencioni, author of  The Five Disfunctions of a Team. Lencioni has spoken at the summit three previous times, and according to his published bio, was rated among the conference's "top 10 general sessions of all time. " Schultz, who has not previously spoken at Willow Creek's leadership summit, recently published his second book on leadership,  Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. His appearance was the subject of an  online campaign  at Change.org, launched by political consultant Asher Huey. "Schultz is speaking at a conference hosted at and sponsored by an anti-gay church. This is unacceptable," the  petition  said. "The church has long practiced dangerous conversion therapy to 'cure' people of their sexual orientation. … Not denounc...

Image via Wikipedia Willow Creek Community Church 's formal relationship with Exodus International has ended. While the decision to part ways dates back to 2009, news that the South Barrington megachurch had cut ties with Exodus, the world's largest ministry addressing homosexuality , did not  surface  until late June. Scott Vaudrey of the elder response team said in writing that Willow Creek's decision was not intended as a social or political statement, but rather an indication of "a season of reviewing and clarifying some of our affiliations with outside organizations." Alan Chambers , president of Exodus, disagrees. "The choice to end our partnership is definitely something that shines a light on a disappointing trend within parts of the Christian community," he said, "which is that there are Christians who believe like one another who aren't willing to stand with one another, simply because they're afraid of the backlash people will...