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Friday, June 19, 2015

Southern Baptists Urged To Reject Any Laws Legalizing Gay Marriage

“Our first duty is to love and obey God, not man”

Prepare for civil disobedience.

That’s the message one prominent pastor is sending to some 16 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas, said American Christians should be prepared for massive fallout if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex unions.

“We want to stay in the system,” Graham told me in a telephone interview. “We want to work in the system. We want to support our government. We want to obey its laws.”

But...

“But there’s a coming a day, I believe, that many Christians personally and churches corporately will need to practice civil disobedience on this issue.”

The foundation for such a possibility was laid Wednesday morning in Columbus, Ohio where the current and former presidents of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination sent a strong message to the country.

“We strongly encourage all Southern Baptist pastors, leaders, educators and churches to openly reject any mandated legal definition of marriage and to use their influence to affirm God’s design for life and relationships,” the statement declared.

While affirming their love for all people – regardless of sexual orientation, the former Southern Baptist presidents said the “cannot and will not affirm the moral acceptability of homosexual behavior or any behavior that deviates from God’s design for marriage.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good stand up for morality.

Anonymous said...

Should have stuck with it several years ago and maybe it wouldn't be in Maryland and other states.

It was the black church leaders who started giving in first.

heear that PALS of Salisbury said...

Love it and screw Obama and the LEFT Democrats...

Anonymous said...

"It was the black church leaders who started giving in first.."

The black church leaders were among the few who were actually speaking out AGAINST it. (BRAVO!!)

The Methodists and Episcopalians were the ones embracing it. (White liberal folks)

Anonymous said...

Black people voted gay marriage down in California and is why judges are going around the voters.