Danny Cortez, once a Southern Baptist mister, did do more than accept his gay son: He cid to talk to his ngregatn about homosexualy, even though ultimately meant his leavg the church.
Contents:
- BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
- A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
- WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
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 gay *
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.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
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. Homosexualy-iendly regns oppose the new bylaw and have petned to reject the proposed whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, wh s church California, Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona, touched off a wave of rpons om lears of the ABC (USA). The group supports the appotment of openly homosexual misters and the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle Baptist Print Ken Perks said his anizatn has no official posn on the spl between the Pacific Southwt regn and the ABC (USA), but that he believed homosexualy should not be a dividg issue.
Perks said he did not know what other regns might do rponse to the whdrawal of the Pacific Southwt regn, but his rponse reveals the growg number of Amerin Baptist regns that wele church open to the acceptance of the homosexual liftyle.
”But the members of the Pacific Southwt regn’s board sist that they ma the right cisn by followg the teachgs of Scripture on homosexualy the church. The Southern Baptist Conventn whdrew om the BWA last year, part, after the anizatn refed to addrs the issue of the acceptance of homosexualy the Amerin Baptist church. Southwtern Baptist Theologil Semary Print Paige Patterson, then a member of the SBC’s BWA study mtee, said Southern Baptists uld “no longer afford to be aligned any way” wh any group that ndon the practice of homosexualy church.
WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
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...
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. As the only anizatn solely voted to buildg the Welg and Affirmg movement wh the Baptist tradns, AWAB has a unique ll to be The Natnal Voice for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Allied Baptists the US.