Current:Home > ScamsPastor Alistair Begg's podcast pulled over his advice that a woman attend LGBTQ wedding -Pinnacle Profit Strategies
Pastor Alistair Begg's podcast pulled over his advice that a woman attend LGBTQ wedding
View
Date:2025-04-13 06:20:54
An Ohio pastor was removed from a Christian radio network over his advice that a grandmother attend her son's wedding to a transgendered person.
In a September episode of his podcast on American Family Radio, Alistair Begg recounted a time when he advised the grandmother to go to the wedding.
"Well, here’s the thing: your love for them may catch them off guard, but your absence will simply reinforce the fact that they said, ‘These people are what I always thought: judgmental, critical, unprepared to countenance anything,'" Begg said on the podcast.
The comments reappeared on social media, leading the network to remove Begg's half-hour weekday program "Truth for Life" on Jan. 24, according to The Pink News.
American Family Association did not respond to USA TODAY's request for comment on Wednesday.
In a statement sent to Fox News on Tuesday, the association said that "members of our leadership team held a call with Alistair Begg’s team and were unsuccessful in convincing them of his error."
"At American Family Association, we believe it to be an act of unfaithfulness to God to attend a ceremony that celebrates any union outside of the biblical model of marriage as being between one man and one woman," according to the statement. "As a result of this, we will no longer air Pastor Alistair Begg’s Truth for Life program."
Pastor: 'I'm not ready to repent over this. I don't have to'
In a sermon on Sunday, Begg defended his advice, calling the situation, "a storm in a teacup."
"I'm not ready to repent over this. I don't have to," Begg said.
Begg said that gay marriage went against biblical teachings and told a story where he said to an audience at a Christian college: "The only place for sexual relationships is within a heterosexual, monogamous relationship between one man and one woman, for life."
Begg also said that those who condemned LGBTQ people were not practicing the teachings of Jesus.
"What happens to homosexual people is that they are either reviled or affirmed," Begg said. "The Christian has to say we cannot treat you in either of those ways. The reason that we can't revile you is the same reason why we can't affirm you because of the Bible, because of God's love."
veryGood! (128)
Related
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- These are 5 ways surging mortgage rates are reshaping the housing market
- WWE Champion Bray Wyatt Dead at 36
- Nationals' Stone Garrett carted off field after suffering serious leg injury vs. Yankees
- Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
- California doctor lauded for COVID testing work pleads guilty to selling misbranded cosmetic drugs
- Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square
- Idaho Murder Case: Why Bryan Kohberger’s Trial Is No Longer Scheduled for October Date
- Rams vs. 49ers highlights: LA wins rainy defensive struggle in key divisional game
- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join the BRICS economic bloc
Ranking
- North Carolina justices rule for restaurants in COVID
- 29 Cheap Things to Make You Look and Feel More Put Together
- Takeaways of AP report on sexual misconduct at the CIA
- Mets to retire numbers of Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, who won 1986 World Series
- See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
- CIA stairwell attack among flood of sexual misconduct complaints at spy agency
- Taylor Swift Eras Tour Security Guard Says He Was Fired for Asking Fans to Take Pics of Him
- Watch Adam Sandler and Daughter Sunny’s Heated Fight in Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah Movie
Recommendation
Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
Massachusetts man gets lengthy sentence for repeated sexual abuse of girl
COVID hospitalizations climb 22% this week — and the CDC predicts further increases as new variants spread
Chicken N' Pickle, growing 'eatertainment' chain, gets boost from Super Bowl champs
Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
Watch Yellowstone wolves bring 'toys' home to their teething pups
Slain Marine’s family plans to refile lawsuit accusing Alec Baldwin of defamation
Climate change hits emperor penguins: Chicks are dying and extinction looms, study finds