When her teenage dghter me out as a lbian several years ago, one of the first thgs Carole Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?”
Contents:
- SBC ROLUTN CHALLENG CHRISTIANS WHO SELF-INTIFY AS GAY
- A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
- THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
SBC ROLUTN CHALLENG CHRISTIANS WHO SELF-INTIFY AS GAY
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. * southern baptist gay policy *
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.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
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... 23, 2021Updated June 15, 2021The Southern Baptist Conventn’s executive mtee voted on Tuday to expel four of s member church, otg two for polici that “affirm homosexual behavr” and the others for employg pastors who are nvicted sex offenrs.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
Matthews Baptist Church Louisville, Ky., for church polici emed acceptg of homosexualy, vlatn of the nomatn’s statement of View’s nversatns about beg an “affirmg” ngregatn, and s cisn to accept two gay upl as members 2019, st the church at least 30 percent of s membership, Jim Conrad, the pastor, said on Tuday eveng. Photo by Van recent nference hosted by our Ethics and Relig Liberty Commissn, entled “The Gospel, Homosexualy and the Future of Marriage, ” drew great attentn to the issue of homosexualy and homosexual behavr.