World Vision Christian Charity Backtracks On Gay Marriage Move After Evangelicals Withdraw Cash

NEW YORK -- A Washington-based religious charity has been forced to backtrack on a pledge to allow the hiring of employees in same-sex marriages, after evangelicals denounced the move as the work of the Devil.

World Vision, the 10th biggest charity in the US, which asks donors to sponsor hungry children, said that it was to broaden its recruitment pool to include gay married Christians as a gesture of unity for a faith that has been riven by the issue of same-sex marriage.

However rather than approval, the charity received immediate censure, with the faithful declaring on social networks and in online message boards that they had cancelled their sponsorships with the organisation.

Less than two days after making the announcement, World Vision, which boasts an annual budget of $1 billion, backpedalled on the decision, calling it “a mistake”.

On reversing the move, World Vision president Richard Stearns told Christianity Today, “We feel pain and a broken heart for the confusion we caused for many friends who saw this policy change as a strong reversal of World Vision's commitment to biblical authority, which it was not intended to be."

"Rather than creating more unity [among Christians], we created more division, and that was not the intent," he added.

Speaking to the New York Times on Thursday, Stearns went further, calling the move “a mistake in judgement”. He also added that “several thousand” sponsorships had been cancelled by Christians in just two days.

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