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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.

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

The explanatn ually go like this: “I have gay iends.

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

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.

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

If you don’t normally ask straight sgle adults if they’re celibate, why should you ask gay sgle adults if they are celibate?

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.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

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

The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial. "Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech.

GAY PASTOR OF MYRTLE BAPTIST CHURCH NEWTON SEEKS TO OPEN MDS

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.