Dudley Rutherford

My wife and I didn’t see them, but there were some protesters at the North American Christian Convention in Cincinnati yesterday. Some people from the Westboro cult (they are neither Baptist nor a church) were protesting the fact that Christians claim that God loves everybody. In spite of John 3:16, the Westboro people maintain that God hates homosexuals. They even had little children holding up signs with their message of hate.

Some homosexuals also showed up. They were there to protest against the Westboro cult. (Who says we don’t have exciting conventions?).

Dudley Rutherford, the president of this year’s North American Christian Convention, went outside to see what the excitement was all about. He chose to stand with the homosexuals. He told some of them that he had preached at the convention earlier this week about God’s definition of marriage being one man and one woman. He said that Christians don’t condone the homosexual lifestyle, but they believe that God loves everybody. Dudley informed them that none of the nearly 10,000 Christians gathered for the convention agrees with the Westboro people.

Rutherford said that as he walked away, the homosexuals began singing, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!”

If these homosexual people ever do turn to Christ for salvation, it will not be in response to the hateful and untruthful message of the Westboro cult. They will be won over by the graceful, loving truth of the gospel message.