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The image above is powerful and joyful—Winsome Earle-Sears giving glory to Jesus publicly is exactly the kind of leadership we need. It perfectly underscores the spiritual contrast between what Salon mocks and what Scripture honors. Salon’s hit piece on Winsome Earle-Sears and her Christian endorsements is a direct assault on biblical morality.We respond with truth and love.
A Public Smear, a Spiritual Battle: Salon vs. Scripture
Salon Magazine’s June 21 article, “Fear of ‘Gay Blood’ and ‘Confused Minds’,” is not journalism; it’s a public denunciation of biblical Christianity. The article attacks Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears for her alignment with pastors who uphold God’s design for sexuality, gender, and marriage.
What Salon calls “anti-gay” is, in fact, God-honoring. These pastors and Earle-Sears herself are not preaching hate. They are proclaiming the same timeless truth that Jesus preached: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17).
Salon’s Intolerance of Truth: When Faith Becomes the Enemy
In the article, Salon fixates on the fact that Earle-Sears is endorsed by pastors and Christian leaders like Don Blake of the Virginia Christian Alliance, Craig “The Hatchet Man” Johnson, and others who have publicly affirmed biblical sexual ethics. Salon labels them “anti-LGBTQ+ clergy,” but the truth is simpler: they are Christians who still believe the Bible.
Don Blake’s comment that many LGBTQ leaders have “confused minds” is not inflammatory—it echoes Romans 1:28: “Since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind.” The Gethsemane Church and Oasis Church, also mentioned by Salon, rightly affirm that marriage is between one man and one woman—a view Jesus Himself affirmed (Matthew 19:4-6).
The fact that Salon presents these views as scandalous shows how far the culture has drifted—and how desperately it needs a return to truth.
What’s Really at Stake: The Authority of God’s Word
Salon’s article is not about Winsome Earle-Sears’ policies. It’s about suppressing the voice of biblical Christianity in the public square. It mocks Craig Johnson’s concerns about blood safety and pedophilia as “extreme,” even though his warning mirrors a very real pattern: moral decline follows when society rejects God’s design. Just like Romans 1 warns, our culture has “exchanged the truth of God for a lie” and celebrates what God calls sin. Salon’s piece reflects that rebellion—calling evil good, and good evil (Isaiah 5:20).
But here’s what Salon cannot understand: God’s truth is not hateful—it is liberating. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). That includes the truth about sexuality, gender, marriage, and repentance.
Biblical Christianity Is Not Hate. It’s Hope.
Salon portrays Christians who oppose LGBTQ+ ideology as bigots. But the gospel is not about bigotry—it’s about redemption. “Such were some of you,” Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 6:11, “but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
God’s design is not oppressive—it’s protective. He created male and female (Genesis 1:27), ordained marriage between one man and one woman (Genesis 2:24). He called all sexual activity outside of that covenant sin, not because He is cruel, but because He is holy.
Salon may scorn this, but we are not ashamed. “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
A Word to the Church: Stand Firm in Love and Conviction
Winsome Earle-Sears is right to welcome endorsements from pastors who fear God more than man. The Church must follow her example. We must not retreat in silence just because media giants like Salon choose slander over truth.
Instead, we respond with both courage and compassion. The Bible tells us to “speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15), and that’s exactly what we aim to do. We don’t hate LGBTQ+ individuals. We love them enough to tell them the truth: that there is hope, healing, and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.
Final Word: Salon Can’t Cancel God’s Word
Salon Magazine may ridicule biblical Christianity, but it cannot refute it. Polls, feelings, or editorial boards do not define truth. The Word of God defines it. And that Word still says:
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters… nor men who practice homosexuality… will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you.” —1 Corinthians 6:9–11
There is still time for America to repent. There is still room at the Cross for the sexually broken. But only if the Church refuses to be silenced.
As for Salon, they’ve made their position clear. Now, it’s time for Christians to do the same—boldly, lovingly, and unashamedly.
