Last Updated on August 27, 2024
Al Mohler is one of the American Church’s primary culprits when it comes to leading the way in resettling illegal aliens and refugees on U.S. soil.
While Megan Basham’s hit book Shepherds for Sale:
Mohler, who currently holds a post as the ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in Louisville, Kentucky,
The reason for Mohler’s shift to the left is clear.
Mohler has faced allegations of hypocrisy from the left and even calls to step down from his post at SBTS because of his insufficiently harsh take on Donald Trump.
Apparently the Commies in the Baptist church don’t think America is gay enough. Or brown enough.
The result is clear. The pressure has moved Mohler to the left.
And the shift leftward doesn’t end with Al Mohler. Mohler’s deputies are carrying out his directions to move leftward.
Send Relief, a collaboration between the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board, is the Southern Baptist clearing house for everything refugee and human trafficking related.
So dedicated is Mohler’s Southern Baptist Convention to settling Muslim refugees in Clarkston, Georgia — a suburb of Atlanta — that SBC’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) decided to sue the town of Clarkston for its opposition to a Muslim refugee settlement center built by a sub-group within the NAMB called “Send Relief.”
The Christian Post reports:
“The Send Relief center in Clarkston will focus on providing aid to “refugees and internationals.”
Clarkston has been labeled the “most ethnically diverse square mile in America.”
Fighting on behalf of Mohler’s and Greear’s SBC, the NAMB, and “Send Relief,” is NAMB president Kevin Ezell.
“We own property and … to retroactively do this violates our basic rights,” Ezell was quoted as saying.
Siding with Ezell was Clarkston’s then-mayor, and former “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” contestant Ted Terry.
Bloomberg jumped at the chance to celebrate Terry’s lean toward the “Queer Eye” guys, as well as Mayor Terry’s efforts to resettle refugees from Africa in Georgia.
The small Atlanta suburb has received over 40,000 refugees in recent years, and Mohler’s SBC, NAMB, and “Send Relief” are keen to increase that number.
Mayor Queer Eye insists that bringing non-natives into Georgia is a positive development.
“[A]mong refugees, crime is among the lowest of any category of immigrant or native-born Americans. They are the safest people you can have in your city limits,” Terry told a magazine calling itself Christian Index.
“The City of Clarkston appreciates that recognition by the Southern Baptist Convention. In some ways it is tracking right alongside the church with its unwavering acceptance of refugees and immigrants,” reads the Christian Index article, archived here.
The clear collaboration between liberal Christian media, Kevin Ezell at the NAMB, Hollywood shows like “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy,” and Bloomberg News might seem to be an isolated case of ‘strange bedfellows’.
But that would be an incorrect assessment.
Bloomberg, as one might imagine, is cheering loudly for evangelicals to leave the Republican Party, and specifically, Trump’s camp.
Just like fellow liberal J.D. Greear, Mohler’s trainees skew to the left as well.
REVOICE PUSHES FOR HOMOSEX ACCEPTANCE INSIDE THE SBC
ReVoice “supports LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer) & SSA (same-sex attracted) Christians to flourish in traditional Christian communities.”
The push from within the Baptist Establishment for more homosex acceptance is pervasive and penetrates far and wide within Mohler’s SBC.
At first, Dr. Russ Moore, who heads the SBC’s lobbying firm in Washington called the Ethics and Religious Life Committee (ERLC) feigned ignorance about ReVoice.
Baptists weren’t buying Moore’s feigned ignorance.
The problem was that well-known ERLC functionaries were openly supporting the pro-homo movement inside the SBC.
An ERLC Fellow, Dr. Karen Prior Swallows publicly endorsed the pro-homosex revisionist lipstick ReVoice was trying to put onto the Southern Baptist faith.
The ERLC finally woke up and published no small number of missives opposing ReVoice.
Most Baptists who were paying attention agreed: the ERLC’s response was too-little, too late.
In fact, a former SBTS professor went so far as to allege that Al Mohler is a ‘double agent’.
“Nate Collins was vocal about his views on gender and homosexuality when he was a student and later an adjunct faculty member at Southern Seminary,” according to Hebrew scholar and professor Russell Fuller.
“The Administration at Southern Seminary knew of Collins’s destructive views but still allowed him to teach. Tom Schreiner was a member of the administration as an associate Dean of the School of Theology when Collins was writing his problematic dissertation at Southern under Tom,” Fuller said.
Al Mohler and SBTS are “soft” on homosexuality and LGBTQ+ issues, according to Dr. Fuller.
“The truth is that Southern Seminary went soft on homosexuality years before Collins when Mohler himself accepted the secular idea of sexual orientation,” Dr. Fuller said.
“In fact, Mohler ‘repented’ that he rejected the secular teaching of sexual orientation, the lynchpin doctrine of the LGBTQ community,” Fuller said.
“Mohler’s statement of ‘repentance,’ of course, suggests that he was in sin for not accepting sexual orientation,” Fuller explains. “This further suggests that Christians are in sin who do not accept sexual orientation, a blasphemous notion.”
And Dr. Fuller does not stop there. He points out that Mohler cannot answer when confronted about this problem.
“When Mohler was pressed on this by Bryan Fischer, the host of Focal Point for American Family Radio, who asked if this means that people are born gay, Mohler did not answer,” Dr. Fuller said.
“He could not answer. Mohler cannot answer because he believes, like the LGBTQ community, that sexual orientation transcends the will and is a part of one’s nature. If Mohler does not believe that homosexuals are born gay, then will they inevitably become gay since sexual orientation is a part of their nature? Do some have a sinful orientation/nature to homosexuality that others do not have? Is this orientation/nature from birth or do people develop it later? Where does the Bible talk about this sexual orientation specifically?”
Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the American Family Association, never bought Mohler’s slithering responses when questioned about the SBC’s approach to homosex.
“Evidently, according to Rev. Mohler, if you don’t believe gays are born that way, you’re either a homophobe or right next to it. He told the delegates at the SBC that homosexuality is ‘more than a choice,’ and that it apparently borders on something sinful to believe otherwise,” said Fischer.
AL MOHLER AND SBTS INCUBATED AND FOSTERED HOMOSEX ACCEPTANCE FOR A DECADE
An honest review of the timeline for ReVoice’s founders tenure at Mohler’s school proves that Mohler’s institution – the SBC’s flagship seminary – incubated and encourage ReVoice development, and both educated and employed it’s founder Collins for years.
Collins was at SBTS from 2003 through 2017, and remained there after he “came out “and publicly self-identified as “Gay”.
This is according to Nate Collins’s own biography, his online CV, and his social media.
Mohler finally voiced mild opposition to agitators for homosex acceptance from within the gay-friendly environs he helped to create.
Mohler’s soft stance against homosex seemingly encouraged heightened acceptance levels of homosex within the church.
The American Baptist Churches USA, the fifth-largest Christian denomination in the United States, with approximately 1.3 million members and 5,000 congregations worldwide, is considered one of the most inclusive and radical Protestant bodies by the Human Rights Council.
PEW reports that 30% of the SBC’s members believe Homosexuality “should be accepted.”
And just this May, The Washington Post heralded a Southern Baptist preacher who ended up leading an LGBTQA+ affirming church.
In 2022, Mohler continued to flip-flop with his position on sexual orientation.
Earlier this year, after more pressure from conservative Baptists, Mohler finally caved in, sort of.
While refusing to come out and definitively state where he stands on same-sex marriage, he managed to voice his circuitous opposition to same-six unions.
“This isn’t hard. This isn’t really hard at all,” was as close as Mohler got.
It remains unclear why it took hundreds of words for Mohler to utter a response that should have amounted to, “No,” or “The SBC has been, and remains opposed to same-sex union.”
Mohler disputes the claim that the SBC has been drifting toward the left.
National File will continue to cover the church’s leftward lurch led by charlatans masquerading as shepherds.
