As Covenant Network co-moderator Deborah Block says, We are moving to a vision embodying the hospitality of Christ. Bohl has actively campaigned against fundamentalists whom he feels are essentially after political control of the church. The Right has pushed forward their initiatives very skillfully. Everything is based on the inerrancy of scripture. That sounds good to most people, but when you actually read the Bible you ll see the contradictions in it.
Inerrancy of scripture is another way they mask their attempt to gain power.
The Layman , an ultra-conservative Presbyterian newspaper affiliated with the Lay Committee, has been central in the fundamentalist effort to uphold biblical authority against criticism. Executive Editor Parker T. Williamson countered, Bohl and Buchanan advocate the Imperial Self-it means the god they worship is a god of their own making. It s paganism. If this one is shot down it will be a shot heard round the ecclesiastical world, Bohl said. Amendment O s implications range much farther than same-sex unions.