"Just accept me for what I am." OK, what are you?

Satan has a disfigured and distorted view of what love is. He thinks it's the same thing as "universal acceptance", and now he's got Bill Gaither doing his dirty work.

The following excerpt was taken from this message board, where at least some people can still read the Bible.


In late 2002, Bill Gaither and Mark Lowry met with and encouraged Marsha Stevens, the lesbian author of the popular gospel song "For These Tears I Died." Stevens, who has a ministry called BALM (Born Again Lesbian Music), attended the Gaither Homecoming concert in Phoenix in December 2002, with her lesbian partner. Mark Lowry, who has sung with the Gaither Vocal Band for many years, approached her and said that he was proud of what she is doing. Surprised, she said, "You know what I'm doing now?" He replied: "I sure do and I wish the fundamentalist would find Jesus. They're going to have a lot to answer for, leaving out people that Jesus died for". (Marsha Stevens, New Years Eve 2002 with Bill Gaither," www.christiangays.com). Bill and Gloria Gaither then came over and told her that they, too, appreciate her ministry today. A photo at Stevens' web site shows her and her lesbian partner with Bill Gaither and Mark Lowry. In the last part of the concert later that night, Gaither invited the crowd to sing along to "For Those Tears I Died." He then said: "You know, the young woman who wrote that song is here with us tonight, and maybe you're like she was and you've heard about a God who would reject you for who you are or who might turn you away for something you've done or where you've come from. Well I want you to know that I don't know that God. The only God I know is the one in this song that she wrote. The one that says, 'I am right here for you.' The one who sent His son. The one who says, 'You are my child, I love you, come stand by my side.' So sing with me again!"


That sounds so nice and loving doesn't it? Unfortunately, Bill Gaither's message (do whatever you want, God loves you anyway) is not the Bible's message ("I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.", Luke 13:30).

As Abraham Lincoln so aptly stated, "Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong." I'm purging my home of any Gaither music I have laying around.

Click here to see a photograph of Bill Gaither, Mark Lowry, Marsha Stevens and her lesbian "partner" together during New Years' Eve, 2002.

Click here for more about Marsha Stevens, quoted as being the "mother of contemporary Christian music". Shiver me timbers.