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Stanley one of 2 evangelical ministers participating in "an interfaith National Prayer Service ... held in the National Cathedral to cap the [Obama] inauguration, featuring Roman Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu clergy, along with pastors from mainline Protestant, evangelical and Orthodox Christian traditions."
Stanley started and currently leads North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. With 24,000+ members, it ranked as the second largest church in the United States in 2010.
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I have omitted the numerous references to his parents' very public marital problems into which he was dragged. The Rev. Charles Stanley, his father, served two terms as the President of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. Andy Stanley was an adult when this happened and made public statements on the issue; any material added to the article on that topic should be handled carefully with an eye to relevance and our Biographies of Living People Policy.
--A. B.(talk • contribs) 20:05, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I just removed some recent additions (I missed them a few weeks ago), which are rather esoteric and primarily blog-sourced. Al Mohler's blog entry and Tim Challies' article are both self-published sources and not allowed in Biographies of Living Persons. Neither of these "controversies" (to use the term very loosely) is descriptive of Stanley's "beliefs" (a section created to house these), and thus also have issues with undue weight, along with notability.--Lyonscc (talk) 18:24, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
At this point, though, there are no verifiable sources with statements from Stanley affirming homosexuality as being congruent with Christian belief. The article in question is about Stanley using an illustration with a divorced gay man in it in which he (Stanley) focused on the divorce/adultery involved. The "controversy" (if one existed) was based on a non-statement (the perceived failure of Stanley to attack homosexual practice when it would have been easy to do so), and its inclusion in Wikipedia, at this point, would be Original Research, in which readers would be required to infer, from silence, that Stanley affirms homosexuality. Unless you've got a positive affirmation of homosexuality in a verifiable source, this really isn't notable, and attributing it to him as a belief in a new section about "beliefs" is just hearsay. With Biographies of Living Persons, there is a high bar for inclusion of controversial material, and a single opinion piece from a secondary source, critical of a non-statement doesn't really fit that bill.--Lyonscc (talk) 23:19, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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