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Does it change you? Does it hurt someone? What is behind the conviction?" were some of the posts he wrote. " I don't particularly care about Scriptures stance on what is 'wrong.' I care more about how it says we should treat people," and " Just curious what 'condoning a persons homosexuality' does. "I knew it was a focal topic for many people in the church, and that it was a major issue in the growing partisanship of American politics, I just had not had the opportunity to think about it much," he wrote.Īfter a few days of pondering the issue and asking questions he didn't have the answer to, particularly after watching the film "12 Years a Slave," he went to Twitter. The discussion turned to gay marriage, which he said he had "not given much attention to" previously.
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Haseltine explained that he began thinking about gay marriage after he was invited to sit in a panel discussion on moral behavior and the church earlier this month as part of a music festival in Australia. And possibly, I got what that combination of statements warranted for response. And rightly so, people were shocked and offended by my statement dismissing the value of scripture. It was picked up by bloggers and written into editorials before I could blink. "In the heat of discussion, I communicated poorly and thus unintentionally wrote that I did not care about what scripture said," Haseltine wrote Friday on his blog. He admitted he chose his words "poorly" but said he wanted to open up dialogue on a topic that he just began to ponder. Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0ĭan Haseltine, frontman for Christian rock band Jars of Clay, explained that he was not dismissing Scripture after conservatives accused him of supporting same-sex marriage in a Twitter conversation.