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.
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.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
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. Some Southern Baptists, havg read the stori, have wonred out loud if the Conventn is the procs of changg our stance regardg homosexual ERLC nference monstrated that while the ways which we as Southern Baptists engage the culture may change as culture self chang, our fundamental mment to biblil ethics regard to human sexualy has not, and will not, change.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
Chang RhetoricPanelists speak durg the Southern Baptist Ethics and Relig Liberty Commissn’s nference on “The Gospel, Homosexualy and the Future of Marriage, ” held October 27–29, 2014, Nashville, Tennsee. While some claim that homosexualy is a chosen liftyle, others believe there is an nate predisposn or blogilly-programmed orientatn volved, who feel as if they are born wh this particular orientatn.
Still others argue that the biblil nmnatn of homosexual behavr such as that found Romans 1 appli only to those volved promiscuo those who say the thgs, I say this. Views about homosexualy18-2930-4950-6465+Sample sizeShould be accepted22%28%31%19%511Should be disuraged8%28%33%30%1, 169Sample siz and margs of error vary om subgroup to subgroup, om year to year and om state to state.