[LARRY] KING: What’s your take on the fundamentalist church, the evangelicals in America?

JAY BAKKER: Well, I think we’ve gotten a little off track. I think there’s a lot of great evangelicals out there too. I mean, we’ve got people like Tony Compola (ph), who is amazing, Peggy Compola (ph) who is amazing, Brian McClaren (ph), Philip Yantzy (ph), Jim Wallace (ph). And so I think there’s a lot of great progressive thinkers out there right now, but also there’s some of the guys who are kind of old school and still worrying about fictitional characters being gay and pointing the fingers at people, and almost creating a moralistic club, you know, that you have to be very moral to be in our private country club. And to me, that’s kind of sad, because Jesus said to whom — whomever will come, you know, all have sinned, all fall short.

KING: Yes, and the gay area, do you know why they’re so adamant against the gay concept?

JAY BAKKER: Well, I mean, I know the arguments. I know the scriptures. And the scriptures are very — you could argue on them all day. I believe they’ve been taken out of context, and I don’t believe that, you know, we’ve researched enough of the background on those scriptures. But I think it’s also that we, as Christians sometimes, we’re getting the idea that we have to do something in order to be accepted by God. And that if we’re not telling other people how to live or we’re not trying to live a certain way, that God doesn’t love us. I think we get caught in this idea of pleasing God rather than trusting God. And I think once you learn to trust God, it’s a lot easier to please God. And I think what we do is we put the cart before the horse. (Online source)

See also:

“GAY-AFFIRMING” PASTOR JAY BAKKER TO SPEAK FOR ELCA GATHERING

Q&A FOR “GAY AFFIRMING” EMERGING CHURCH PASTOR JAY BAKKER

POPULAR EMERGING CHURCH WEBSITE THE OOZE SLITHERS OUT OF THE GLBTQ-AFFIRMING CLOSET

OXYMORONIC ‘HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTIANS’ FOCUS OF BARNA REPORT

MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM NOW ON THE RAPID SLIDE TO APOSTASY

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS, AND QUEERMERGENT’S ADELE SAKLER