{"id":41539,"date":"2014-03-26T17:37:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/world-vision-backs-off-tolerating-married-gay-employees.html"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:37:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:37:16","slug":"world-vision-backs-off-tolerating-married-gay-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/26\/world-vision-backs-off-tolerating-married-gay-employees.html","title":{"rendered":"World Vision backs off tolerating married gay employees"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday, the Christian world relief and development charity, World Vision, announced that it would accept legally married gay employees. \u00a0As the charity's president said in the announcement, "since World Vision is a multi-denominational organization that welcomes employees from more than 50 denominations, and since a number of these denominations in recent years have sanctioned same-sex marriage for Christians, the board — in keeping with our practice of deferring to church authority in the lives of our staff, and desiring to treat all of our employees equally — chose to adjust our policy. Thus, the board has modified our Employee Standards of Conduct to allow a Christian in a legal same-sex marriage to be employed at World Vision."<\/i><\/p>\n

And you'd have thought they also proclaimed they were going to sacrifice kittens to Satan in the company lounge every day and twice on Sundays. To say that the Religious Right had a conniption would be to understate the case. (I very nearly blogged about Bryan Fischer's hissy fit about World Vision's capitulation to sodomy.)<\/p>\n

And, today, World Vision announced it was backing down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

'Today, the World Vision U.S. board publicly reversed its recent decision to change our employment conduct policy. The board acknowledged they made a mistake and chose to revert to our longstanding conduct policy requiring sexual abstinence for all single employees and faithfulness within the Biblical covenant of marriage between a man and a woman. In our board\u2019s effort to unite around the church\u2019s shared mission to serve the poor in the name of Christ, we failed to be consistent with World Vision U.S.\u2019s commitment to the traditional understanding of Biblical marriage and our own Statement of Faith, which says, \u201cWe believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.\u201d And we also failed to seek enough counsel from our own Christian partners. As a result, we made a change to our conduct policy that was not consistent with our Statement of Faith and our commitment to the sanctity of marriage.'<\/i><\/p>\n

Disappointing. Given their previous statement, I guess the message is that some Christian denominations (and "partners") are more equal than others.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +David Badash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Breaking: Major Christian Non-Profit Reverses Decision On Hiring Married Gays<\/a>
\n World Vision, a billion-dollar Christian non-profit that made major headlines this week after announcing it would hire gay people in same-sex marriages, has just reversed its decision. \n <\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Christian world relief and development charity, World Vision, announced that it would accept legally married gay employees. \u00a0As the charity's president said in the announcement, "since World Vision is a multi-denominational organization that welcomes employees from more than 50 denominations, and since a number of these denominations in recent years have sanctioned … Continue reading “World Vision backs off tolerating married gay employees”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/the-world-vision-kerfuffle.html","url_meta":{"origin":41539,"position":0},"title":"The World Vision kerfuffle","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-14 7:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A more detailed look at World Vision's decision to accept the authority of denominations that marry gays, and then their decision to backtrack on that first decision on the face of a conservative evangelical firestorm.'[World Vision president Richard Stearns] said that despite online conjecture, World Vision had not been pressured\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/04\/dennis_dennis_d.html","url_meta":{"origin":41539,"position":1},"title":"Dennis, Dennis, Dennis …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Mar-04 1:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've usually found Dennis Prager to be an insightful and intelligent commentator on religion and society. 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