Ebenezer pastor says gay marriage shouldn't be sgle electn issue
Contents:
- THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
- BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
- WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?
- HOW BRISH BAPTISTS HAVE SORT OF ALLOWED GAY MARRIAG, BUT STILL AREN'T ALL THAT KEEN ON THE IA
- CHRISTIAN NATN SERI: A CHRISTIAN SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- BAPTISTS AND GAY “MARRIAGE”
- EBENEZER PASTOR SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE SGLE ELECTN ISSUE
- BRISH BAPTISTS AND GAY MARRIAGE: WILL SPL THE NOMATN?
- BAPTIST CHURCH TAK STAND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
In an historic cisn on Friday, June 6, the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the Uned Stat. This is amazg news for gay people across the untry, whose right to get married was prevly geographilly hibed;… * baptist church gay marriage *
The church has long clud members who are openly gay and two years ago ordaed a gay an.
BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
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It was one of the church the area to part ways wh the Southern Baptist Conventn over disagreement wh polici such as the nventn’s membership ban on church which “act to affirm, approve or endorse homosexual behavr. In an historic cisn on Friday, June 6, the Supreme Court stck down gay marriage bans across the Uned Stat.
This is amazg news for gay people across the untry, whose right to get married was prevly geographilly hibed; prevly, gay upl uld only get married 37 stat. While there are no longer geographil boundari to same-sex marriage, there are still a few rtrictns on where same-sex upl n get who n relig spac n still refe to marry gay upl if is agast their church's beliefs.
"In other words, while church every state are now legally allowed to perform gay marriag, they are not legally obligated to perform those marriag. The Evangelil Lutheran Church of Ameri has a siar are many church that more universally accept gay marriage. Gay upl have been legally allowed to get married the Uned Church of Christ sce 2005.
WHAT CHURCH CAN GAY COUPL GET MARRIED IN?
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 church gay marriage *
For an ia of which specific church marry gay upl, the webse is a helpful rource, though thanks to this credible SCOTUS cisn, the webse will now have to expand s directory. 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.
HOW BRISH BAPTISTS HAVE SORT OF ALLOWED GAY MARRIAG, BUT STILL AREN'T ALL THAT KEEN ON THE IA
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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.
CHRISTIAN NATN SERI: A CHRISTIAN SE FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Wh the U.S. Supreme Court set to take up gay marriage and potentially legalize this summer, church that host weddg ceremoni or other events for tradnal upl should exame their bylaws and shield themselv om the impact of possible ligatn, says an attorney who specializ relig liberty issu. * baptist church gay marriage *
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.
“I believe is possible to mata uny the ABC whout doctral agreement over homosexualy, ” Perks said. 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.
BAPTISTS AND GAY “MARRIAGE”
He said the letter that “homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.
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.
EBENEZER PASTOR SAYS GAY MARRIAGE SHOULDN'T BE SGLE ELECTN ISSUE
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.
This was sufficient for Premier Rad to n a story headled "Baptist Unn to allow gay marriage ceremoni". 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.
BRISH BAPTISTS AND GAY MARRIAGE: WILL SPL THE NOMATN?
As the SBC webse stat: “Christians n, and should, mister to homosexuals a kd, yet firm manner. The church should never turn s back on homosexuals who are searchg and seekg to heal the hurts wh their liv.
BAPTIST CHURCH TAK STAND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Homosexualy is not a ‘valid alternative liftyle.
The same remptn available to all sners is available to homosexuals.