19 March 2015 A.D. Dr. Robert Gagnon’s “Why San Francisco’s City Church Got It Wrong About Sex”
19 March 2015 A.D. Dr. Robert Gagnon’s “Why San Francisco’s City Church Got It Wrong About Sex” Gagnon, Robert. “Why San Francisco’s City Church Got It Wrong About Sex.” First Things. 17 Mar 2015. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/03/why-san-franciscos-biggest-megachurch-is-wrong-about-sex . Accessed 18 Mar 2015. The senior pastor and elders of San Francisco's evangelical City Church will no longer require members to abstain from homosexual practice, so long as the homosexual activity occurs in the context of marriage. According to a letter written by senior pastor Fred Harrell on behalf of the Board of Elders, “We will no longer discriminate based on sexual orientation and demand lifelong celibacy as a precondition for joining. For all members, regardless of sexual orientation, we will continue to expect chastity in singleness until marriage.” “Our pastoral practice of demanding life-long ‘celibacy,' by which we meant that for the rest ...