article_snippet: But as I survey the battlefield a year later, I can't help but wonder if even the most strident culture warriors would consider the World Vision campaign worth the World Vision campaign many casualties.
article_snippet: Then there are the many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, (especially LGBT Christians caught in the middle), for whom the campaign represented yet another blow to whom humanity.  
article_snippet: And then there are the many Christians and former Christians for whom the World Vision campaign was the final straw in a drawn-out disillusionment with organized religion.
article_snippet: This is the tragic irony of the culture wars: The casualties tend to be the very people Jesus went out of Jesus way to serve: the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the outcasts, the people ostracized and deemed "sinners" by the religious elite.
article_snippet: And when the world sees Christians hurting rather than helping such people, in the name of political gain, our testimony is profoundly diminished.
article_snippet: our have lost the way of Jesus when our are more committed to self-preservation than service, more occupied with waging war than washing feet.
article_snippet: So to the culture warriors, I plead: Before you wage the next campaign, assess the potential collateral damage and ask yourself if it's worth it.
highlights_snippet: The casualties of the culture wars tend to be the very people Jesus went out of Jesus way to serve, says Held Evans .