Promise Keepers Get Canceled – By Christians?

Many of you are familiar with Promise Keepers, an organization devoted to encouraging men to be godly husbands and fathers.  In 1997, Promise Keepers brought 1,000,000 men to Washington, D.C, for the “Stand in the Gap” rally. 

I was running the Family Research Council at the time, and I took my son, Zach, with me to the event.  FRC created a poster featuring the tremendous crowd at the “Stand in the Gap” rally, and I know some of you still have it hanging in your homes!

I bring this up because there is an effort underway to revive Promise Keepers by Ken Harrison, and I have offered to help anyway I can.  America needs Promise Keepers now more than ever!

A Promise Keepers event was scheduled to take place in September at Belmont University, a Christian university in Nashville, Tennessee.  But the university canceled the event after Promise Keepers issued this statement about “Pride Month:”  

“We will not stand on the sidelines and remain quiet.  As fathers, husbands, grandfathers, and young men — we see the dangers of gender ideology and the harm it causes. 

“At Promise Keepers, we affirm that God made human beings in His image to reflect Him. He created male and female with equal worth and dignity — and there was no mistake in that design. . .

“At Promise Keepers, we believe it is more important than ever to stand up boldly for what we believe as Christians. God’s Word is very clear on this topic—and we also see the way gender ideology has damaged lives, mutilated bodies, and torn apart families in our own communities.”

For holding to that Christian view, a Christian university canceled them. 

If you have a child or daughter at Belmont, you might consider finding another school.  If you went there, was it always so confused about biblical teachings? 

It’s an indication of the confusion of the age that our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ often do the dirty work of the neo-Marxist left in trying to force the rest of us to sit down and shut up, rather than standing firm.  Belmont alumni may want to reconsider where their charitable gifts go from now on.

It’s also very telling that this issue – homosexuality – is the THE ISSUE that most divides the Church today.  (Here, here and here.)