Harmonizing the Word and the World

Highlands Church in Denver is a bit of an outlaw. It's an evangelical church that specifically welcomes gays, breaking with Fundie theology and straddling the conservative/liberal divide. Naturally, other Fundies say that is why they have to be clear about their teachings on gays. Highlands Church is a champion of social justice and sees treatment of gays as another justice issue. The pastor saw how the lives of gays in the modern world didn't fit in the standard Fundie interpretation of homosexuality. He soon adopted the pro-gay view of the bible. He notes other past evils (slavery) can be justified by the bible and says that God's word and God's world are both created by God and we must study both and bring the two into harmony.