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• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH
• CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH
• EBENEZER PASTOR SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE SGLE ELECTN ISSUE
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH
• GAY PASTOR OF MYRTLE BAPTIST CHURCH NEWTON SEEKS TO OPEN MDS

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

This is an important lson for church and nomatnal bodi to learn as they nsir one of the most challengg qutns of our time: how to addrs the cln of persons who are gay, lbian, transgenr or otherwise nonnformg to tradnal rol. The explanatn ually go like this: “I have gay iends.

An example on each si: One iend believ the church should allow gay ans bee a an body should reprent the life of the church, where there are undoubtedly gay members. But this iend draws a le at ordag gay misters. If you don’t normally ask straight sgle adults if they’re celibate, why should you ask gay sgle adults if they are celibate?

CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH

Crics of LGBTQ cln the church often talk about a “gay liftyle” as a broad assumptn that all people wh same-sex attractn are livg promiscuy and bchery. This is problematic, however, if the church expects a standard of sexual relatns only wh marriage but do not acknowledge marriage as a realy for gay and lbian Christians.

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. " Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s. At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil.

""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH

Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty. Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime.

The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.

"Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech.

EBENEZER PASTOR SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE SGLE ELECTN ISSUE

The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. As the only anizatn solely voted to buildg the Welg and Affirmg movement wh the Baptist tradns, AWAB has a unique ll to be The Natnal Voice for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Allied Baptists  the US.

The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century. In a 1996 “Rolutn on a Christian Rponse to Homosexualy, ” the SBC clared that “even a sire to engage a homosexual relatnship is always sful, impure, gradg, shameful, unnatural, cent and perverted.

In the 2000 Baptist Fah and Msage statement, the SBC equat "homosexualy" wh adultery and pornography, clarg, “In the spir of Christ, Christians should oppose … all forms of sexual immoraly, cludg adultery, homosexualy and pornography. The SBC lls on s members to a “love the sner but hate the s” approach and affirms the possibily of reorientatn om same-sex attractn and supports “ex-gay” mistri. As the SBC webse stat: “Christians n, and should, mister to homosexuals a kd, yet firm manner.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

The church should never turn s back on homosexuals who are searchg and seekg to heal the hurts wh their liv.

BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE

Homosexualy is not a ‘valid alternative liftyle. The same remptn available to all sners is available to homosexuals. It lled on "Southern Baptists not only to stand agast same-sex unns but to monstrate our love for those practicg homosexualy by sharg wh them the fivg and transformg power of the gospel of J Christ (1 Corthians 6:9-11).

In June 2010, a rolutn (On Homosexualy and the Uned Stat Milary) passed that stat: “we oppose changg current law to normalize the open prence of homosexuals the armed forc, and sist on keepg the fdg of Congrs that stas current law, which stat that even ‘the prence the armed forc’ of persons monstratg ‘a propensy or tent to engage homosexual acts’ creat ‘an unacceptable risk to... “I mean, if someone walks to a homo bar and shoots a bunch of homos and kills all of them, you know how many tears I’d shed for that? Raphael Warnock, pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Atlanta, broached the subject of gay marriage on Sunday.

Warnock said he had been asked where he stands and where the church stands on the issue after Print Barack Obama exprsed his support for gay marriage last didn't say whether he was for or agast gay marriage, but Warnock urged parishners not to make gay marriage the only important issue the 2012 printial electn.

CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS EXECUTG GAY PEOPLE, DENI HOLOT PURCHAS BUILDG FOLLOWG MULTIPLE EVICTNS FOR HATE SPEECH

"Warnock told the ngregatn no matter what si they are on regardg gay marriage, the church is about beg clive. "There are gay sisters and brothers all around , " he told the ngregatn.

GAY PASTOR OF MYRTLE BAPTIST CHURCH NEWTON SEEKS TO OPEN MDS

Shanan Jon, assistant pastor for muny affairs at the 39 percent of Ain-Amerins favor gay marriage, pared wh 47 percent of whe Amerins, acrdg to a Pew poll nducted this April.

Black support has risen dramatilly sce 2008, when only 26 percent of black people favored gay marriage and 63 percent were opposed, acrdg to Rev.