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Max Lucado Apologizes For Hurting LGBT Community Amid Outrage Following Sermon At National Cathedral

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Max Lucado Apologizes For Hurting LGBT Community Amid Outrage Following Sermon At National Cathedral
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The evangelical author who faced backlash last week after being invited to preach at Washington National Cathedral despite opposing homosexuality apologized for disrespecting and hurting the LGBT community.

Max Lucado, who is pastor of the nondenominational Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, was invited by the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Paul in the City and the Diocese of Washington, D.C., to preach earlier this month, but his public opposition to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage outraged many members of the liberal Episcopalian denomination to which the National Cathedral belongs.

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