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CHURCH BATE BLSG GAY UPL
"The church has historic ti to the Southern Baptist Conventn, the natn's largt Prottant nomatn, which nsirs homosexualy a s, but disassociated self om the Southern Baptists 1999. "There were a few people who said, 'Are they gog to start llg the gay church town? "In some ways, 's gog to open up a space for evangelil gay people to have a place aga, " Dant told the paper.
First Baptist of Greenville is now ordag gay, transgenr misters. A former Southern Baptist Church has cid all are weled their pulp, gog so far as to orda gay and transgenr Baptist of Greenville, South Carola—the church home of the first Southern Baptist Conventn print—has taken a bold move "embracg the plexi of genr inty. 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. ***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.