It’s called the Media Research Center, not the Religion Research Center. So why is Tim Graham denigrating others’ interpretations of Christianity?
In a June 20 NewsBusters post, Graham attacked “newly declared lesbian country singer Chely Wright” for voicing a version of Christianity that offers support for gays and for noting that “her sister’s minister equated gays with murderers.” When Wright expressed frustration with “churches who automatically exclude young gays and lesbians. And old ones for that matter,” and added, “How dare they assume they own God?” Graham sneered in response:
Orthodox Christians don’t “own God.” They believe in what the Bible teaches. The obvious reply to Wright’s Gay Pride God is “How dare they invent their own God?”
Who appointed Graham theologian-in-chief? Who is he to say that Wright’s version of Christianity is not valid? And why is Graham reading the gay-oriented paper where Wright’s interview appeared? Is there something he’d like to tell us?