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

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. * baptist lgbt *

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.

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...

The Natnal Baptist Conventn USA Inc., has issued no public statements on s attus or polici toward gay, lbian and bisexual people and the issu that affect them. * baptist lgbt *

5-ln member parent nomatn after s lears refed to addrs plats about the membership of “welg and affirmg” church, or church that accept as members unrepentant homosexuals, the nomatn.

However, November 2005, the General Board voted to amend the document entled We Are Amerin Baptists by statg that Amerin Baptists are a people who “subm to the teachg of Scripture that God’s sign for sexual timacy plac wh the ntext of marriage between one man and one woman, and acknowledge that the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Biblil teachg. 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. 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.

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