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.
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- BAPTIST CHURCH FOUND BY FIRST SBC PRINT ALLOWS ORDATN OF GAY AND TRANSGENR MISTERS
- BAPTIST CHURCH FOUND BY FIRST SBC PRINT ALLOWS ORDATN OF GAY AND TRANSGENR MISTERS
- TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
BAPTIST CHURCH FOUND BY FIRST SBC PRINT ALLOWS ORDATN OF GAY AND TRANSGENR MISTERS
The South Carola church that was found by the Southern Baptist Conventn's first print has adopted a new non-discrimatn policy that will allow for the ngregatn to not only marry same-sex upl but also orda openly gay, lbian and transgenr misters. * first baptist church gay *
That is our goal at FBC Gay Geia. ” The state ernment recently passed “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn effectively outlawg LGBTQ tn public schools; has also targeted racial mori by banng the stctn of “cril race theory” and even blockg enrollment a Black Studi Advanced Placement urse. “It do le out the LGBTQ array of ss, ” he says, but sists the impact is even broar: “Rape, ct, polygamy — all sorts of thgs are led out jt as much as homosexualy.
BAPTIST CHURCH FOUND BY FIRST SBC PRINT ALLOWS ORDATN OF GAY AND TRANSGENR MISTERS
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The board’s actn mak fal the separatn of the 300-church regn om the Amerin Baptist Church (USA) Valley Fe, cisn after eight months of discsn and a vote on the part of the regn’s church late April to remend that the board whdraw over the refal of the ABC (USA) to al wh the acceptance of church wh lax polici on homosexualy the nomatn. Many of the nomatn’s self-erng regns, such as the Evergreen Associatn Washgton and the Rochter-Genee regn New York, openly accept church disassociated om other regns bee they accept unrepentant homosexuals as members.
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
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The Indiana-Kentucky regn has also proposed a change the nomatn’s bylaws that will not allow church to transfer to another regn when removed over the issue of homosexualy. Homosexualy-iendly regns oppose the new bylaw and have petned to reject the proposed whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, wh s church California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona, touched off a wave of rpons om lears of the ABC (USA).
The group supports the appotment of openly homosexual misters and the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle Baptist Print Ken Perks said his anizatn has no official posn on the spl between the Pacific Southwt regn and the ABC (USA), but that he believed homosexualy should not be a dividg issue. “I believe is possible to mata uny the ABC whout doctral agreement over homosexualy, ” Perks said. Perks said he did not know what other regns might do rponse to the whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, but his rponse reveals the growg number of Amerin Baptist regns that wele church open to the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle.
”But the members of the Pacific Southwt regn’s board sist that they ma the right cisn by followg the teachgs of Scripture on homosexualy the church. He said the letter that “homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg. The Southern Baptist Conventn whdrew om the BWA last year, part, after the anizatn refed to addrs the issue of the acceptance of homosexualy the Amerin Baptist church.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
The South Carola church that was found by the Southern Baptist Conventn's first print has adopted a new non-discrimatn policy that will allow for the ngregatn to not only marry same-sex upl but also orda openly gay, lbian and transgenr misters. * first baptist church gay *
Southwtern Baptist Theologil Semary Print Paige Patterson, then a member of the SBC’s BWA study mtee, said Southern Baptists uld “no longer afford to be aligned any way” wh any group that ndon the practice of homosexualy church.
To orda gay misters? “There were a few people who said, ‘Are they gog to start llg the gay church town? ’”The dialogue culmated to a nsens — the kd that, by the earlit tradn of Baptist discernment, rulted a public affirmatn by each prent ll wasn’t to renr a verdict on whether homosexualy is right or wrong.
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***This isn’t the first time the church has found self examg anew what means to be Baptist — and found self embarkg on a journey largely on s 1999, First Baptist disassociated self om the Southern Baptist Conventn — the send-largt Christian anizatn Ameri behd the Catholic Church — amid ncerns that the aln had bee too rigid and too tied to a hierarchil s, the Southern Baptist Conventn has nmned homosexualy as a s and has lled on followers to enurage week before the Supreme Court’s June 26 cisn, the SBC affirmed a rolutn that same-sex marriage “will ntue to weaken the stutn of the natural fay un and ero the relig liberty and rights of nscience of all who rema fahful to the ia of marriage as the njugal unn of hband and wife.