Skilled homophobe selected to be head of the Southern Baptists, what the Dallas Morning News didn't tell you.
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Jeff Iorg has been selected to be leader of the Southern Baptist denomination.
This is the Dallas Morning News (DMN) article on his election. It is Iorg spelled with an “i”.
You will find not information on his homophobia, but you will find out that he is the head of the Gayway Seminary, which used to be known as the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, and which used to have its main campus in San Francisco until they moved to Ontario, California in Southern California in 2016.
He was elected the head of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in 2004.
https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/jeff-iorg-elected-as-golden-gate-president/
He has had long experience in running a Baptist operation in one of the most pro-Gay cities in the world. He would have expertise the Baptist will need.
Before discussing this, first some background websites.
Some websites
This is the Gateway Seminaries current website.
This is the current university page for Jeff Iorg. One of the links on this page is to his book about how to operate in an environment with social acceptance of Gays, “Ministry in the New Marriage Culture.” The new marriage culture is that it has same-sex marriage. This is also a feature of the New Homophobia. It isn’t upfront about its intentions.
https://www.gs.edu/about/president-jeff-iorg/
This is the link to their publication, The Gateway.
Their video channel is on Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/gatewayseminary
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@GatewaySeminary
https://twitter.com/GatewaySeminary
https://www.facebook.com/GatewaySeminary
https://www.instagram.com/gatewayseminary/
These are the Internet Archives of the Golden Gate Baptist Seminary and his blog.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.ggbts.edu/
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/www.jeffIorg.com
Wikipedia. (As always be cautious and corroborate what you read indedpendently.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Iorg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Seminary
We will get to what makes Jeff Iorg a skillful homophobe, but first the info about the SBC.
Gayway Seminary anti-Gay stuff.
We will be getting to what makes Jeff Iorg the skillful homophobe. But first something about his institution.
https://thegateway.press/tag/homosexuality/
From the following article, “The Plain Meaning,” by Jeff Iorg
This kind of creative biblical interpretation is a new and burgeoning field. Voluminous material is now being produced by creative biblical interpreters to validate homosexual behavior, gender fluidity, and sexual liberties. These positions have at least four problems in common: they reject centuries of common-ground biblical interpretations by both Catholics and Protestants; they find never-before-discovered insights in ancient texts; they invent new hermeneutical methods; and they ignore the plain sense of Scripture.
https://thegateway.press/the-plain-meaning/
From the following article, “Prediction Fulfilled,” by Jeff Iorg.
When Gavin Newsome infamously declared same-sex marriage legal in San Francisco in 2004, one of my predictions was that decision would lead to a complete redefinition of marriage and family in the United States. Sadly, that’s a prediction being fulfilled in one generation.
It is some what curious in this denunciation of polyamoury since in the Bible all these leaders in the Old Testament often have more than one wife, in many cases many wives.
https://thegateway.press/a-prediction-fulfilled/
Searching with the term homosexual brings up a whole series of anti-Gay articles.
https://thegateway.press/?s=homosexual
https://thegateway.press/crystal-clear/
https://thegateway.press/biblical-mindset-for-evangelism/
https://thegateway.press/statement-of-faith/
His speaking out against same-sex marriage
We will be getting to the skillful homophobe thing, but first this.
He has been a leading figure opposing same-sex marriage. This is a speech he gave in 2013. This also shows why the Internet Archive is important.
“Events of this past summer mandate a message in response to the most significant change in American society since abortion on demand was legalized in 1973,” announced Jeff Iorg, president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. “As you know, the United States Supreme Court ruling this summer have effectively legalized gay marriage in many states,” he added. “The result – the battle over gay marriage is over.”
He sees Gay marriage as part of the “downward spiral” of America.
This hearty approval is why the Supreme Court’s decisions and cultural celebrations of gay marriage are so troubling, explained Iorg. “Sexual immorality – of all types – has been part of the human experience throughout recorded history. The troubling issue today isn’t so much the rise of immorality – that cycle ebbs and flows with changing generations. The troubling issue is the applause – from kissing in the streets to White House ceremonies celebrated through every media possible.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20210515224231/https:/gsapps.org/news.aspx?item=161
The video of the lecture is still online here.
This is an article, “The Same Sex Attraction and the 2022 SBC Pastor’s Conference.”
In 2017 the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood authored a statement known as “The Nashville Statement.” This statement has been signed by 5 of our current SBC Seminary Presidents: Al Mohler, Danny Akin, Jason Allen, Adam Greenway, and Jeff Iorg, and also by many other Southern Baptists. I do not mean to impugn any person who hasn’t signed. I thought my own name was on there but I couldn’t find it. I only mean to point out that the Nashville Statement is representative of the historic Southern Baptist position on homosexuality. [Boldface added.]
https://www.servantsandheralds.com/same-sex-attraction-and-the-2022-sbc-pastors-conference/
This is his book, “The New Marriage Culture.”
Jeff Long like other Southern Baptists is anti-Gay, what makes him the skillful homophobe.
Of course the head of the Southern Baptist is anti-Gay, what makes him the skillful homphobe.
What makes him the skillful homophobe is that he is thinking of effective ways to advance the Southern Baptist agenda in a culture that is sympathetic to a large extent to the LGBT. He makes this clear in his discussion of “Ministry in the New Marriage Culture.”
This is the opening passage to his book, “Ministry in the New Marriage Culture”:
https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Marriage-Culture-Jeff-2015-10-01/dp/B01FIW4OGU
Your church sponsors its annual Vacation Bible School. A ten-year-old boy comes with a friend and hears the gosplel for the first time. He commits himself to Jesus as his Lord and Savior and tells you about his decision. … He promises to bring his parents on family night so they can also hear the good news about Jesus.
On family night your new young friend brings his parents, two men married to each other. How will you respond? Will they be welcome in your church? …
One of the men in the same-sex marraige hears the gospel at the family night service. He’s intrigued. …
After a few weeks he has committed himself to Jesus. He presents himself for baptism and church membership. Will your church baptize him? Will he be welcomed as a member while still in a legally recognized same-sex marriage?
He goes on to describe similar situations. He explains that all the contributors to this book believes that same-sex marriage is wrong.
He explains that he is not against activism for “traditional marriage” and against same-sex marriage, but that:
We are, however, insisting the church accept the reality of our present situation and address ministry issues emerging from this cultural change.
As Iorg states:
This book focuses on how to minister in the new marriage culture while upholding biblical convictions about gender, marriage, and sexuality.
He expects that there will be a “tsunami of negative results” due to same-sex marriage, and that every minister will have to “deal with the private fallout.”
But the reality is that the Southern Baptists are worried is how they will treat same-sex marriage without seeming to be horrible bigotted people when they “respond to never-before-imagined dilemmas.”
The Southern Baptists have long since realized that hostile homophobia as practiced in the past, was likely to bring down Evangelical Christianity and Christianity, and it has been bring it down, wish astonishing rapidity on a historical time scale. So they adopted the “Love the sinner, hate the sin,” approach which isn’t fooling anyone, but it does instruct Evangelical Christians not to be homophobic screamers.
There has been the instructions of parents not to be screaming bigots.
Mary Comm has a book, “Uncommon Love,” and visits churches to give classes.
https://marycomm.com/consulting/resources/uncommon-love-bible-study/
The book is for parents whose children have come out as LGBT. As the promo for the book states.
The primary purpose of this Bible study is to help parents to maintain loving, mutually respectful relationships with their LGBTQ children, offering them compassionate understanding and unconditional love without compromising their own identity, faith, and values.
They have realized that parents choose their kids over obnoxious Christianity and so are trying to come up with something. They also understand that vicious homophobic parents give Christianity a very bad name.
The selection of Jeff Iorg is to lead the Southern Baptist in a program of the New Homophobia. A homophobia that is slick and doesn’t come across as obnoxious and presents itself as caring. Jeff Lorge is ready to instruct the Southern Baptist in the New Homophobia and is thus the skillful homophobe.
Since it is less obvious, and isnt obnoxious, this New Homophobia is a much more pernicious deadly danger for the LGBT.
