Cizik ousted at NAE

I first heard about this controversy a week ago, and now it's come to fruition:

A prominent evangelical lobbyist resigned yesterday over his remarks in a National Public Radio interview, in which he said he supports permitting same-sex civil unions.
The Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), later apologized for the remark . . .
More than two dozen evangelical leaders -- including James C. Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family, and Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council -- complained in a letter last year to the NAE leadership that Cizik was "using the global warming controversy to shift the emphasis away from the great moral issues of our time," which they defined as abortion, homosexuality and sexual morality.

Some evangelicals would rather be "relevant" than right. But this is how the mainstream denominations drifted away from the Bible decades ago, and it's sad that some evangelicals think it's a smart idea to follow them.