Evangelical Theologian Russell Moore: Religious Right Cannot Capitulate on Traditional Marriage, Will Eventually Win

American evangelical theologian and preacher Russell Moore contended that the “religious right” will eventually win the heated culture war issue of same-sex marriage. Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules, he plans to stand by the definition of traditional marriage between a man and a woman.

In a phone interview conducted by Lila Shapiro of the Huffington Post, Moore elaborated on why he hasn’t thrown in the towel on standing up against same-sex marriage. He is currently president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.

“I’ve been predicting for years that the court is hell-bent on imposing same-sex marriage on all 50 states, so that’s what I’m expecting the court to do,” Moore said. . .I didn’t want evangelicals caught flat-footed the way that evangelicals were by Roe v. Wade, not anticipating that any such thing could happen”. . .

“If the court rules as I anticipate, evangelicals will still stand where we’ve always stood on marriage — as a union of one man and one woman,” Moore said. “We have no option to capitulate on that, because marriage in a Christian vision of reality isn’t just a social contract. Marriage points to something beyond the natural order — the union of Christ and his church.”

Moore highlighted that Christians previously had to define traditional marriages throughout history. “That’s not a new situation for Christians — that’s what’s happening in the context of the New Testament, defining Christian marriage over and against a Greco-Roman sexual culture,” Moore said. “But it’s a new situation for American evangelicals.” (Read more from “Evangelical Theologian Russell Moore: Religious Right Has ‘No Option to Capitulate on’ Traditional Marriage” HERE)

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