Albert Mohler is mad again.
This time at General Wesley Clark – American hero, democratic presidential candidate.
As Paul Nickell (aka WWP) mentioned on his blog, Clark appeared on the cover of The Advocate. The Advocate is a gay-centered publication. Paul, a good friend of mine for many years and a well-know advocate for the gay community in Oregon’s church and law circles, wrote:
He's hip, he's hot, he's running for president of the United States. He's Gen. Wesley Clark, and there he is --in all his t-shirted wonder -- on the cover of the current issue of Advocate magazine. Worldwide Pablo can truly say he's now seen just about everything.God bless Gen. Clark (even though WWP thinks he doesn't stand a chance of winning the Democratic nomination). But at least he's consistent on gay issues. And his heart is in the right place.
Mohler, the arch-conservative president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Republican Party stalwart, isn’t quite as impressed:
….his cover photo and interview in The Advocate are proof positive of the dramatic gains made by homosexual activists over the last decade. Fueled by powerful political patrons and supported by activist judges, gay activists have pushed beyond anything even they could have imagined just a few years ago.In a retrospective article, The Advocate noted that their first candidate survey, sent in 1970, received few replies--especially from candidates registered as Democrats or Republicans. Now, all of the major Democratic candidates participated in The Advocate's survey--and all declared themselves fully on board for the normalization of homosexuality. The magazine summarized the candidates' positions in a chart, "Rating the Dems," that indicates that all of the Democrats support either gay unions or homosexual marriage, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act [ENDA], adoption rights for homosexuals, and a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." All oppose the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment.
Good news. Good news. That means the Democrats have moved closer toward a moral position on civil rights for gay and lesbian people. People like Paul are old enough to remember when that wasn’t the case (and Paul is pretty young). Thank you, Paul, for being one of those gay activists. People like you made Wesley Clark’s pro-civil rights position possible. That’s good for America.
