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.
Contents:
- 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 PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN HIR NASHVILLE GAY PRI SPONSOR AS NEW LEGAL COUNSEL
- 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
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.
SBC ROLUTN CHALLENG CHRISTIANS WHO SELF-INTIFY AS GAY
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.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
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...
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.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN HIR NASHVILLE GAY PRI SPONSOR AS NEW LEGAL COUNSEL
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.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
Jim Conrad: In May of 2019, a man emailed me and said that he and his partner were gay, they were gog to be movg to the area om out of state, and they were lookg to provi for their three sons the kd of experienc church that they’d had growg up. I grew up South Florida durg the time Ana Bryant was leadg [anti-gay] protts, and I was a teenager jt wonrg why this one s was garnerg so much more attentn than others. The Southern Baptist Conventn is now on rerd disuragg e of the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who experience same-sex attractn but choose celibacy bee they believe the Bible perms sex only between a man and woman the ntext of marriage.
An SBC rolutn adopted this week Birmgham, Alabama, “On Sexualy and Personal Inty” addrs Christians who “have tried to affirm God’s sign for sexualy while embracg a personal inty as ‘gay Christian’ or a ‘sexual mory.