Unsure...

I can't work out what I think about this article on the religious right in Kansas in the US.

Is the article applauding the Christians in Kansas for stopping holding to what the Bible says? On the other hand, the kind of things that have come out of Kansas (God hates gays for example), are pretty dispicable and un-biblical in the extreme. God hates sin, that's for sure, but anyone homosexual is no different to anyone else in that we're all sinners, and God loves everyone enough to have sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross to take that sin upon himself so we can know God.

However, it seems the undertone of the article in the BBC is rather like most articles that come in the Economist - Christians are ok so long as they believe what everyone else believes - so long as they take evolution as the only plausible way we have got to where we have got, so long as they admit that, really, abortion's absolutely fine, so long as they don't have "outdated" views on sex, etc.

Yet what makes Christians distinct if they do that? Nothing. And what is a Christian, if it is not someone who follows Christ, hence believes in the Bible, hence takes his lead from the Bible? Now if that Bible states God created the world, and everything in it (like life - who are we to decide when to end it?), and states that sex is an amazing thing - but for marriage alone, then shouldn't Christians believe and argue in these things?