Baptist lear: Christians should boytt gay weddgs

Contents:

• BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE
• THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• BAPTIST LEAR: CHRISTIANS SHOULD BOYTT GAY WEDDGS
• BAPTISTS AND GAY “MARRIAGE”
• HOW BRISH BAPTISTS HAVE SORT OF ALLOWED GAY MARRIAG, BUT STILL AREN'T ALL THAT KEEN ON THE IA
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

BAPTIST CHURCH VOT TO OK GAY MARRIAGE

The church has long clud members who are openly gay and two years ago ordaed a gay an. 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.

THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON 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. 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.

As the SBC webse stat: “Christians n, and should, mister to homosexuals a kd, yet firm manner.

BAPTIST LEAR: CHRISTIANS SHOULD BOYTT GAY WEDDGS

The church should never turn s back on homosexuals who are searchg and seekg to heal the hurts wh their liv. Homosexualy is not a ‘valid alternative liftyle. The same remptn available to all sners is available to homosexuals.

BAPTISTS AND 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... 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.

HOW BRISH BAPTISTS HAVE SORT OF ALLOWED GAY MARRIAG, BUT STILL AREN'T ALL THAT KEEN ON THE IA

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. 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.

“I believe is possible to mata uny the ABC whout doctral agreement over homosexualy, ” Perks said.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.