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(RNS) Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller said Wednesday (March 16) he never would have approved a recent covenant that choir members were asked to sign urging them to be Christian and heterosexual.
\n“I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views,” Schuller told The Orange County Register<\/em>. “I’m too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It’s called freedom.”
\nThe covenant describes choir members as people who confess Jesus as their savior, consider the Bible “authoritative and infallible,” and understand the cathedral’s position that marriage is “between one man and one woman.”
\nSchuller told the newspaper he agrees with the covenant’s stance on homosexuality but “that doesn’t mean that we are going to start a crusade against homosexuals.”
\nIn a Tuesday statement on its website, the Southern California church, now led by his daughter and senior pastor Sheila Schuller Coleman, described the covenant as an attempt to explain expectations of ministry leaders. It apologized to those that might be hurt by its language.
\nAnother daughter told the newspaper the elder Schuller is bound to sometimes differ with church leaders. “But, the organization and his voice are no longer seamless,” said Carol Schuller Milner. “It can never go back to being that way.”
\nThe dispute is the latest controversy for the Garden Grove, Calif., church, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October and saw the 2008 resignation of Schuller’s son, Robert A. Schuller, as senior pastor.
\n– ADELLE M. BANKS<\/strong>, Religion News Service<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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