Baptists Versus Homosexuals
President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent, election year, reversal of his long-standing attitudes on marriage, his “evolution,” has once again raised a religious issue which has resulted in even Baptists weighing in on whether men should be legally entitled to marry men and women marry women.
I’m not an adherent of the 400 year old Baptist faith but over a hundred million other people are worldwide with 33 million residing in the United States of which half are members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
With such formidable numbers, differences of opinion are expected.
However, on one particular issue, homosexuality, Baptists used to be virtually unanimous in agreement. The vast majority unapologetically believed homosexuality is a choice, that gays recruit heterosexuals, that homosexual behavior is intrinsically evil and disordered, and that same-sex marriage is a destructive abomination.
With that admittedly cursory summation of Baptist beliefs on the subject as background, two Southern Baptist leaders recently spoke out with vastly different perspectives.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, while supporting biblical injunctions against homosexuality, nevertheless thinks Christians are guilty of “our own form of homophobia.”
On the other hand, Pastor Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., thinks homosexuals should be confined within an electrified fence to insure they couldn’t reproduce.
Aside from the apparent inconsistencies in Dr. Mohler’s position that the Bible is right yet being wary of gays is wrong and Pastor Worley’s obviously illegal, drastic measure of sequestering gays in prisons, their radical differences demand clarification. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=24398.)
President Barack Hussein Obama’s recent, election year, reversal of his long-standing attitudes on marriage, his “evolution,” has once again raised a religious issue which has resulted in even Baptists weighing in on whether men should be legally entitled to marry men and women marry women.
I’m not an adherent of the 400 year old Baptist faith but over a hundred million other people are worldwide with 33 million residing in the United States of which half are members of the Southern Baptist Convention.
With such formidable numbers, differences of opinion are expected.
However, on one particular issue, homosexuality, Baptists used to be virtually unanimous in agreement. The vast majority unapologetically believed homosexuality is a choice, that gays recruit heterosexuals, that homosexual behavior is intrinsically evil and disordered, and that same-sex marriage is a destructive abomination.
With that admittedly cursory summation of Baptist beliefs on the subject as background, two Southern Baptist leaders recently spoke out with vastly different perspectives.
Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, while supporting biblical injunctions against homosexuality, nevertheless thinks Christians are guilty of “our own form of homophobia.”
On the other hand, Pastor Charles L. Worley of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., thinks homosexuals should be confined within an electrified fence to insure they couldn’t reproduce.
Aside from the apparent inconsistencies in Dr. Mohler’s position that the Bible is right yet being wary of gays is wrong and Pastor Worley’s obviously illegal, drastic measure of sequestering gays in prisons, their radical differences demand clarification. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=24398.)
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