The Natnal Baptist Conventn USA Inc., has issued no public statements on s attus or polici toward gay, lbian and bisexual people and the issu that affect them.
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 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 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, 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.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN PASS ROLUTN ON GAY MARRIAGE
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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. 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.
BAPTIST LEAR: CHRISTIANS SHOULD BOYTT GAY WEDDGS
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. 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.
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.
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. 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.
HOW BRISH BAPTISTS HAVE SORT OF ALLOWED GAY MARRIAG, BUT STILL AREN'T ALL THAT KEEN ON THE IA
I rarely hear the vrlic or nasty nmnatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people. 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.
Boyttg weddgs of gay iends and loved on will be excciatgly difficult, R. ”Even if scientists prove people are born gay, the “sfulns of homosexualy” would not be elimated bee bee human s tats the world, Mohler said addrsg other topics of sexual inty.
He ntend that transgenr people who are "saved" should nsult wh their pastors about whether to have surgery to return to their origal activists and some clergy nounced the book, to be published by HarperColls Christian Publishg, sayg will further divi gays and their fai. Activists prott Baptists' semar on homosexualy“Dr. 3 ln 2003, acrdg to Relign News no official tally of the number of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins exists, a Gallup poll released May timat the natnal average at 3.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Attendg a same-sex weddg don’t imply approval but stead personal support and love for the marryg uple, acrdg to the Chigo-based Mar Foundatn, which works to build bridg between the gay muny and Catholic bishops have urged parishners not to attend gay weddgs while others have not addrsed the marriage spls Oh relig munyWhile J regularly ate wh sners, Mohler said that “his nstant ll was to repentance” and no se did he endorse said he never has attend a same-sex weddg and wouldn't even if one of his children or grandchildren were marryg. In an terview, he said he addrsed the qutn the book bee stunts and grandparents had asked about even before the June 26 Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage. In an afterword, Mohler, who has led Southern Baptist semary for 22 years, said the cisn vilifi those wh a tradnal view of marriage and plac every relig stutn Mohler don't propose that nservative Christians isolate themselv om gay muny.
Southern Baptists ld marriage, only not for gaysIn one chapter, Mohler asks and answers what he lls hard qutns about gay sexualy, such as whether is OK for Christian parents to let their kids play at the home of children wh gay parents. Timothy Love, one of Kentucky's platiffs who who won the Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage natnwi, said Mohler's advice on boyttg weddgs is ironic.
"Q & A om We Cannot Be SilentOther qutns Mohler asks his book and the advice he giv:Qutn: Are people born gay? Don’t this mean God ma them gay? Answer: Even if science eventually prov that blogy homosexualy, the "disvery of a ‘gay gene’ would not force the church to abandon s posn on the sfulns of homosexualy, " nor would nullify the teachg of Scripture or validate same-sex attractn bee even the natural world is "tated by human s.