Billy Graham’s Magazine Takes Aim at “The Life of ‘Progressive Christianity’”

A pair of articles in the most recent issue of Decision explores what the authors see as the problems with Progressive Christianity. The articles particularly focus on comments made by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic Presidential candidate who is openly gay and married to another man.

At a CNN Town Hall in April, an audience member asked Buttigieg if Mike Pence represented the views of the average person in Indiana. Buttigieg responded, “Please don’t judge my state by our former governor.” Buttigieg then went into a long and sustained attack on Mike Pence’s understanding of Christianity, the Bible, and ethics. He first brought up the 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Buttigieg said was “a license to discriminate, provided you remembered to mention your religion as an excuse for discriminating.”

Then, Jake Tapper pushed Buttigieg further, asking, “do you think Vice President Pence would be a better or worse president than President Trump?” Buttigieg used the question to draw a distinction between his view of Christianity and Pence’s before attacking Pence’s faith and personal morality. He said his “understanding of scripture” is about “protecting the stranger and the prisoner and the poor person and that idea of welcome.” Buttigieg continued, “That’s what I get in the gospel when I’m…