{"id":70,"date":"2008-12-11T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/richard-cizik-shifts-his-view.html"},"modified":"2008-12-11T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T10:13:22","slug":"richard-cizik-shifts-his-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/richard-cizik-shifts-his-view.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Cizik Shifts His View on SSU and Is Asked to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"R Cizik.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/198\/import\/R%20Cizik.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"360\" width=\"239\" \/><\/span>On<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97690760\"> Fresh Air with Terry Gross<\/a>, National Association of Evangelicals vice president of governmental affairs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/decemberweb-only\/150-42.0.html\">Rich Cizik admitted that his views on same sex unions are shifting<\/a>.&nbsp; While he made it clear that he does not favor same sex marriage, he did affirm the that he favors same sex civil unions.&nbsp; Cizik also admitted that he voted for Barack Obama in the primary election, although he did not reveal for whom he voted in the general.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As a result of these comments, NAE president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2008\/decemberweb-only\/150-41.0.html\">Leith Anderson asked Cizik to resign<\/a>, which Cizik did.<\/p>\n<p>Cizik has been a leading figure in the evangelical world over the past several years, battling evangelical lions like James Dobson and Charles Colson on several issues, most noteably the environment.&nbsp; As a result of Cizik&#8217;s tireless efforts, the NAE affirmed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nae.net\/images\/civic_responsibility2.pdf\">care for creation<\/a> as one of its chief concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Cizik is a loss for all progressive evangelicals who still think the NAE is a potentially potent force.&nbsp; But he&#8217;s a gain for those of us who are post-evangelical, post-religious right, post-moral majority, post-polarized politics, post-discrimination, and post-closedmindedness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fresh Air with Terry Gross, National Association of Evangelicals vice president of governmental affairs Rich Cizik admitted that his views on same sex unions are shifting.&nbsp; While he made it clear that he does not favor same sex marriage, he did affirm the that he favors same sex civil unions.&nbsp; Cizik also admitted that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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