“Albert Mohler was right about homosexuality not just being a choice,” Friedeman said. “He was right about homosexuality requiring a Savior. He was right about the church being homophobic towards homosexuals. And he was also right about homosexuality being a sin.

A prominent conservative social activist has accused the Southern Baptist Convention of pandering to gays and illegal immigrants.

Bryan Fischer, radio talk show host and spokesman for the American Family Association, commented in a blog that the recent SBC annual meeting in Phoenix “was not a great week for the Southern Baptist Convention, as one of its leaders appeared to pander to the homosexual lobby and the convention itself pandered to lawbreakers, all in the space of two dizzying days.” [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.]

Fischer, whose Focal Point radio program on American Family Radio is broadcast on nearly 200 stations and reaches about 2 million listeners, criticized Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler for urging convention messengers to “repent” of a “form of homophobia,” without explaining exactly what he meant.

“Evidently, according to Rev. Mohler, if you don’t believe gays are born that way, you’re either a homophobe or right next to it,” Fischer said. “He told the delegates at the SBC that homosexuality is ‘more than a choice,’ and that it apparently borders on something sinful to believe otherwise.”

Fischer said he could see no way to understand the statement except that Mohler was urging Southern Baptists to “accept the bogus claim that homosexuality is innate and that people can be homosexual from birth.”

“Perhaps that’s not what he meant to say,” Fischer acknowledged. “If it wasn’t, then it’s important for him to clarify exactly what he did mean.”

Fischer contrasted Mohler’s statement with comments by SBC President Bryant Wright, who met privately with representatives of several gay-rights organizations during the annual meeting but “did not budge an inch” in their demand for an apology for the convention’s strong message that homosexuality is a sin.

“Obviously, we don’t feel that there can be an apology for teaching sexual purity,” Wright told the activists.

Fischer said if Mohler’s objective is to get gays to like him or the SBC: “Good luck with that. They will accept nothing less than total abject, surrender, and Rev. Mohler didn’t offer them that. He still calls homosexuality a ‘sin,’ and that will make his position completely unacceptable to the folks he was trying to appease.”

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