LifeSite ‘We don’t believe this is the time or place to wage this debate’ about the Scriptural belief in marriage between a man and woman.
NEW YORK, April 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― LGBT activists are continuing to venture out into Central Park to protest the presence of an emergency hospital responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to NBC, on Tuesday a group called “Reclaim Pride Coalition” was seen “several yards” from the tent hospital in Central Park. The hospital is owned and staffed by the Evangelical Christian disaster relief organization Samaritan’s Purse.
The activists expressed their hatred for the organization through signs reading “Help not hate.” They blamed various public leaders, including NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the administration of Sinai Hospital for allowing the Christian organization to set up its 68-bed infectious disease hospital in New York.
The issue for the LGBT activists continues to be the organization’s scriptural beliefs about marriage. The staff and volunteers of Samaritan’s Purse sign its statement of faith, which includes the following passage:
We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.
The organization is also pro-life, stating that “human life is sacred from conception to its natural end.” Founded by Reverend Bob Pierce in 1970, the disaster relief foundation has offered supplies and medical help to communities suffering from natural disasters for 50 years.
