‘An Unfair Comparison’: Southern Baptist Convention Passes Resolution Claiming Gay Marriage Isn‘t a ’Civil Right’
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In this June 19, 2012 photo, participants in the Southern Baptist Convention, listen during a debate about changing the name of the organization, at the convention in New Orleans. The nation's largest Protestant denomination has voted to adopt an alternative name for churches that feel the title "Southern Baptist" could be a turn-off to potential believers. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
NEW ORLEANS (The Blaze/AP) — A day after electing their first African-American president in a historic move that strives to erase its legacy of racism, Southern Baptists passed a resolution opposing the idea that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue.
(Related: Meet the Southern Baptist Convention’s First Black President)
Thousands of delegates at the denomination’s annual meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday were nearly unanimous in their support for the resolution that affirms their belief that marriage is “the exclusive union of one man and one woman” and that “all sexual behavior outside of marriage is sinful.”
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination is attempting to broaden its appeal beyond its traditional white Southern base. At the same time, leaders said they feel it is important to take a public stand on their opposition to same-sex marriage — an issue that has been at the forefront of social debate.
The resolution acknowledges that gays and lesbians sometimes experience “unique struggles” but declares that they lack the “distinguishing features of classes entitled to special protections.”
Elizabeth Luter, wife of Fred Luter, Pastor of the Franklin Ave. Baptist Church in New Orleans, reacts as he is elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, at the convention in New Orleans, Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Luter is the first African-American to be elected president of the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Photo: Gerald Herbert / AP
“It is regrettable that homosexual rights activists and those who are promoting the recognition of `same-sex marriage’ have misappropriated the rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement,” the resolution states.
Another resolution passed on Wednesday is intended to protect religious liberty. It includes a call for the U.S. Justice Department to cease efforts to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act and for the Obama administration to ensure that military personnel and chaplains can freely express their religious convictions about homosexuality.
It also condemns the administration’s mandate requiring religiously affiliated institutions, but not houses of worship, to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees.
Leaders of several other faiths and Christian denominations, especially Roman Catholics, have also organized and filed lawsuits against Obama administration policies that they see as threatening religious expression.
The Rev. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, was one of the authors of the gay marriage resolution.
“It’s important to sound the alarm again, because the culture is changing,” he said in an interview after the vote.
McKissic, who is black, said it was “an unfair comparison” for gays to equate same-sex marriage with civil rights because there is not incontrovertible scientific evidence that homosexuality is an innate characteristic, like skin color.
“They’re equating their sin with my skin,” he said.
David W. Key Sr., director of Baptist Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, said that as gays and lesbians become accepted in the larger American society, the Southern Baptist Convention is trying to separate itself from some of the more hateful rhetoric while still staying true to its beliefs.
The resolution includes a statement that the SBC stands against “any form or gay-bashing, whether disrespectful attitudes, hateful rhetoric, or hate-incited actions.”
But even with those disclaimers, Key said statements like this could hurt evangelism because they are likely to be objectionable to many people who are “not necessarily affirming, but also not rejecting” of gay rights issues.
Key said the Southern Baptists have continued to be outspoken on issues regarding gays and lesbians where other denominations with similar beliefs have not made the same type of public statements. He noted the SBC’s previous eight-year boycott of The Walt Disney Co. for its gay-friendly policies.
The civil rights resolution comes at the same time the 16-million strong Nashville-based denomination is taking stands in other areas that will help it reach out to new members.
Rev. Fred Luter
The election of the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. on Tuesday as the first African American president of the SBC was hailed as historic by denomination leaders who see it as a sign that Southern Baptists have truly moved beyond a divisive racial past.
In a news conference after the vote, Luter said he doesn’t think his election is some kind of token gesture.
“If we stop appointing African-Americans, Asians, Hispanics to leadership positions after this, we’ve failed,” he said. “… I promise you I’m going to do all that I can to make sure this is not just a one-and-done deal.”
Delegates to the annual meeting also voted to adopt an alternative name for churches that feel the “Southern Baptist” title could be a turn-off to potential believers.
Supporters of the optional name “Great Commission Baptists” argued it would help missionaries and church planters to reach more people for Christ.
And the Southern Baptists have been less provocative on gay issues than they once were. The denomination ended its Disney boycott in 2005 and this year, as outgoing President Bryant Wright passed the gavel to Luter, the new president asked about Wright’s plans.
“I’m going to Disney World!” Wright said.
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Comments (73)
4QU
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 3:32pmThis is why religion is so dangerous. Gays must be granted the same same opportunity to be miserable under marriage as the rest of us. Christians proclaim some type of moral high ground yet they divorce at the same rate as non Christians. Where is your loving God in your marriages? Maybe it is because your God is a sexist?
How do you, as a woman, feel about all of this sexism?
Keep in mind that God’s misogyny as portrayed in the Bible has affected society for centuries. The United States constitution, for example, was originally drafted to specifically deny rights to women. Women could not even vote in the United States until 1920, and only then after decades of battle in the women’s suffrage movement.
If you think about it, you will realize that something else is odd. In spite of the Bible and its far-reaching effects, and in spite of the fact that the Bible is supposed to be God’s eternal Word, modern human beings have advanced well beyond the Bible’s teachings. In fact, we totally reject God’s sexism. Modern human beings completely ignore God:
You make women the CEOs of major corporations.
You elect women to high government offices.
You appoint women as presidents of universities.
You fill our schools with female teachers.
You allow women to speak freely in church.
You do all of this in direct defiance of God’s Law in the Bible because we know God and his eternal word is wrong.
Why do do you completely defy the Bible like this?
The Bible hat
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 6:26pmRight is right and wrong is wrong. These people made the decision on their own no pressure from anyone but what’s in their heart. Nothing political. And as far as Gods word being accurate that is your choice to believe in what you want no pressure it is what is in your heart. This one is for Obama Psalm 109 verses 6-20
Report Post »RAMJR
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:02pmThere is an awakening, within many churches. For God, and against God. The values on the issue of sexual sin, is not a one sided issue. It is something we all struggle with. To some that struggle is in trying to tell God, their not in sin, and the clever tactics of using the Bible, taken out of content and context. Proverbs 17 (all of it) is a good place to start in showing God isn’t concerned in our issues. He is only willing to present WHOLE TRUTH. The issues we have, presenting our belief to substitute Gods, has been addressed by nations more ‘religious’ than us. The Pharisee’s got called out for hypocrisy, and it is the hypocrisy of many within the church, that gives an open door to immorality justified. Christians calling out homosexuality…but bringing blind eyes to premarital sex and divorce. As a Christian, I have found myself loving…and hating God. From a little boy secretly wanting to be a pastor, to hating God for the bullies, the loss of my father, my looks, the cancer I fought, the injuries throughout my life, leaving me partially handicapped, but in that time, coming back to God. Through all the hypocrite posing ‘christians’ that told me if I didn’t go to church, I’d go to hell…and seconds later see them gossiping about someone, cutting them down. My path to God has put me with many homosexuals. Some I grew up with as a child, some I went to a church to and some that mock me. The same as many ‘christians’ do. Read Proverbs 17. Blessings.
Report Post »jwt
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:29pmthe state can do what ever it wishes. the followers of the way have no interest what the govermnet does. render unto the goverment what it owns (your body) and unto God your spirit. Lincolin put all in slavery to the national goverment. He drafted to fill the army saying all owed their bodies to the Nation, except those who could buy their way out. He also turned corporations into people and releaved stock holders of responsibilty for any loses
Report Post »RAMJR
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 3:15pmJWT@
The founders who gave us the First Amendment, also passed the Northwest Ordinance, which states, “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” Government use to know God was the means to an end, in all values of life, all venues of our lives and the foundation of our government, based on the Commandments/Word of God.
When George Washington was sworn is as President of The United States of America, he said “It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe.”
Our Constitution, signed “in the year of our Lord” (referring to Jesus), is predicated on the Declaration of Independence, which says that our rights come from the Creator.
President Eisenhower said in 1955, “Without God, there could be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic, expression of Americanism.”
His successor, John F. Kennedy, said, “The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”
The only separation we seem to put concern on these days, is separating from Gods Word, even in our churches and clergy. Hypocrisy is rightfully called out on many calling themselves ‘Christians’ in name only, same as clergy, but it seems some clergy are waking up, and turn
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:14pm“The resolution acknowledges that gays and lesbians sometimes experience “unique struggles” but declares that they lack the “distinguishing features of classes entitled to special protections.”
Report Post »What about equal treatment under the law? Are they not entitled to that either?
Git-R-Done
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:01pmThey already have that in case you missed it. The law says that marriage is between a man and a woman and any man can marry any woman and vice versa. That’s also what civilized people believe.
Report Post »marineminer
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:40pmConsidering the filthy , gross , disgusting activities of said sodomist marriages , I do not even consider it a human right much less a civil right .
Report Post »jsciai
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:51pmWay to go SBC–now if all of the faiths and religions will take the same vocal stance we, the people of the USA, may stem the tide of this abomination. Look what happened when the Catholics and Mormons got together in Califorina on Prop 8. We just need to all speak up against that which is evil. It’s going to be tough, though, so don’t give up the fight.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:57pmto be fair– stand against all lust– and forgive.
Report Post »mcsledge
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 3:14pmIt’s certainly not natural. God has so declared it and common sense confirms that nature promotes life and the creation thereof. Concepts of creation (i.e., procreation, polination, germination, etc.) are completely lost on homosexual acts.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:19pm@JSCIAI
Umm…are you under the impression that if you just make being homosexual seem unpleasant enough that all the homosexuals will suddenly stop being homosexual? Because I don’t think it works that way…
Like, just because you’ve prevented homosexuals from having marriages, doesn‘t mean you’ve stopped them from having loving committed cohabiting relationships with members of the their same sex…
Report Post »jsciai
Posted on June 22, 2012 at 5:48am@ 3rd archy
Report Post »Actually, I don’t think that making homosexuality seem unpleasant will have any effect on those who succombe to that tempation or orientation. Certainly homosexuality has existed from just about the beginning of mankind. However, it has been at the fringe and socially unacceptable. In those cultures where it was embraced societal cohesion quickly failed and that culture was either lost or taken over by invasion, etc. When the fringe of any society becomes the norm you will find that society start to crumble. Let’s say gay marraige is approved across the country. What’s next? Plural marraiges? Surely those people deserve the same benefits/blessing of society that gay folks would have. And, hey, don’t forget about those who truly love animals–what are you–a dirty, rotten speciest? Of course NAMBLA is just waiting in the wings for their time to come around. I oppose gay marriage on, among other things, religious grounds. I believe there is a higher authority that we will all answer to, and that we were given rules and guidelines, not to punish us, but to help us live a life as happy as possible. I don’t hate anyone for their lifestyle choice, but I won’t accept that choice as normal or good for our society.
btw, the loving, kind, long-term monogomous gay relationship is mostly a myth. Since the topic is so politicized you can’t get a straight answer on what really is happening. (pun intended). I’m sure I will get many hateful replys.
PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:36pmto be fair, nobody here has made any assertion that muslims might just as well recognize gay marriages.
the big question is, WHY?
Report Post »rickc34
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 6:31pmIslam would kill them that’s why .
Report Post »Denise Matthews
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:08pmSame sex marriage is not a civil right. It is another example of how Satan attempts to disguise the natural plan of God into an acceptable way of thinking that 2 people of the same sex should be able to marry. Same sex marriages cannot produce natural children; the major reason for male/female marriage. Same sex relationships are an imitation of male/female relationships. One is feminine one is masculine. Scriptually it is repeatedly written that same sex relationships are an abomination to GOD. Most homosexuals don’t even believe there is a devil,interestingly enough. Always remember that in the past when same sex relationships became acceptable God did completely destroy it. Satan knows full well how God feels about this issue and never stops trying to convince the scriptually iliterates to think otherwise. Don‘t be deceived and don’t be guilty of offending your heavenly Father. You’re not born this way; you’re not entitled to any civil right to condone your misguided belief. You can repent and be forgiven & re-establish your life in a genuine male/female relationship & marriage. Don’t sell out for a cheap imitation of love.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:38pmAmen
Report Post »4QU
Posted on June 23, 2012 at 3:46pmYou have no heavenly father…and if you want to believe in him, realize he is a child rapist…he inseminated your Virgin Mary when she was 12 years old…A child cannot give consent, so your invisible father is not only a mass murderer but a child rapist…don’t forget his love of killing the first born of his enemies.
What a sick God you worship!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 12:55pmThis is good to see because if the Christians do not stand for God, who will. If this nation wants the blessings of God they will stand on His Word. We need to get new schools or put prayer and the Een Commandments back in schools and public places to remind people that they are not above God. Menpleasers have no part in the Kingdom of Heaven. There will be an accounting by all where they have stood while in this life.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 12:53pmThis was the right think to do. God may have mercy on this nation who will stand up for His Word.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:57pmEither God can prevent evil but chooses not to, which means he is not all-good, or he wishes to prevent evil but cannot, which means he is not all-powerful…which begs the question if God even exists. Since the only arguments against gay marriage are religious, marriage (or some sort of legal civil union) should be allowed for anyone. There is no benefit to keeping marriage heterosexual (or monogamous)…the divorce rate in the US is about 50%, not the greatest recommendation for marriage, period. That being said, I’ve been married for 38 years and have found happiness without organized (or unorganized) religion.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:58pmThe Christian NEW CONVENANT… is between Christ & an Individual… and not a Collective Agreement! GOD supports Christians as Individuals… and Christians cause a Nation to be Good and Great!
Report Post »JJBlazeReader
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 12:36pm..
The pushback, against the homosexual move to have Christianity accept the homosexual lifestyle as “not sinful”, is getting stronger and stronger.
The homosexual community cannot change God’s word. Their boasting and having “pride” in their sin exemplifies their problem.
..
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:12amG.K. Chesterton: “Having a right to do something is not at all the same as being right in doing it.”
Report Post »G.E.R
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:19am16th century ignorance at it’s finest
Report Post »drusher
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:38amThe new Southern Baptist resolution has a major error in it: “We deny that the effort to legalize ‘same-sex marriage’ qualifies as a civil rights issue since homosexuality does not qualify as a class meriting special protections, like race and GENDER”. It should read “race and SEX”. “Gender” is the liberal word used to make one’s sex an imaginary, malleable, portable ideation.
Report Post »slwrig2
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:25amamen
Report Post »sbmmomma
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:15amThank God
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:12amI love when athiests and libertarians talk about our “secular” Constitution. The same Constitution that names a “Creator” and is signed “In the year of our Lord….”. You athiests help me out, who was born 1789 years before the signing of the Constitution?
Someone famous…. think jewish….. carpenter……
Report Post »mermaid7
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:12amGood post!
Report Post »NJBarFly
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:37amWhere is a creator mentioned in the Constitution? ‘In the year of our lord’ simply means ‘Anno Domini’ and is a common way of saying the date, ie 2012 AD. It‘s quite a stretch to claim that the Constitution isn’t secular due to the way the date is written. You’re going to have to do a little better than that.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 12:31pmSquido, the salty air has rotted your mind. The secular Constitution does not mention a Creator, but it does in the establishment clause and the religious test clause limit the influence of religion on the government.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:08amGood for them for stating what they believe unequivocally. First amendment as it is meant to be used.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:07amNot a bad first day Luter, keep it up.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:46amI see this as a direct result and fallacy that we had to remove the Church from the State…I’m glad to see them taking a stand…but we as Christians have been asleep and preoccupied ..and not keeping a watchful eye on our country …We were tolerant of people that “just wanted to live their life”
But in secret they desired more…They accuse Christians of doing the very thing they are guilty of…“Force us to except their lifestyle’ …Not just to live their life…
They are not happy.. with us just living our life…They want it taught to our kids …they want it in our churches…and now if a person disowns a family member because of their choice to live in sin…The Gay community is trying to come into the home now, by using brow-beating tactics under some guise of tolerance… Turning the Word God upside-down …
They are Constantly accusing Christians for Not being compassionate or Christ-like when it comes to understanding and excepting a sinful lifestyle…When Christ himself would never condone/except a sinful lifestyle …The wages of sin is death.. And that’s all I need to know.
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:01amIt is not ‘your’ country. It belongs to all of us, not just Christians. We members of other religions have just as much right to live by our non Christian standards and moralities as you do to live by yours. You do not have the right to tell us how to live, how or who to worship, what the state morality should be, or anything else based on your religious beliefs.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:10amRealLiibertarian
IF what you say is true, then why is the federal government in the business to force christians to honor something that is contrary to the christian churches’ convictions and beliefs?
if indeed gay marriage is a civil right, why force christian churches to honor it? why cant they just get married in a CIVIL COURT and get it over with?
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:25amNobody is forcing any church to marry people. Churches have the right to live by their faith within their doors. But some churches do marry gays, as well as the civil marriage ceremonies- all all those marriages are absolutely as equal and valid as the hetero marriages performed in other churches.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:33amReal
Report Post »I cant believe you got stuck on the word “our”.. out of all that..
Are you related to slick- Willie .?.
RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:42amNo, Sawbuck, I’ve just seen too many Christians claim that this is their country, founded as such, and that they get to make the rules. I‘ve been told that if I’m not Christian, I should get out. I’ve been told that my religion should be illegal. So yeah, when I see a Christian claim anything about ‘our’, I make damn sure that I respond with the truth.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:43amOh come on REALL.. be honest..
The Gay community wants in the churches to give there lifestyle more legitimacy..
And if they could they would have any references of a gay lifestyle being a “SIN”..
“Stricken” from the Bible.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:47am“You do not have the right to tell us how to live, how or who to worship, what the state morality should be, or anything else based on your religious beliefs.”
Wow, there are so many straw men in that argument that you could start an army. First of all, I don’t think the Southern Baptists (which I’m not) is forcing anyone to do anything. There are not telling you how to live or how to worship. They are suggesting what they believe is the best way. And as far as telling you what morality should be, do you realize the insanity of that? It‘s like telling an economist that they shouldn’t suggest what economic policy should be. Someone is going to have influence over what is the normal accepted moral behaviour. Christians want to be that influence so we will not sit down and shut up. The judeo-christian standard has been that controllling influence since our founding up until the 1900′s. I think our country has faired pretty well under it. Seeing how we became an economic and military super power under that influence.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:53amRealL
Back to your first reply …
I was meaning everyone when I said “our country” …
I also said ..“We were tolerant” to others way of life too…
When was there a laws that required people to go to Church..?
When was someone thrown in prison in this country for being Gay..?
Yea ..Christians Just want everyone to conform ..
But ..you keep standing your ground….Its all the big bad Christians fault..
You will be saying the same thing… if WE don’t take this country back..
Only it will be communism … you will be referring to.
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:01amNot a chance, Sawbuck. I don’t want any sort of a nanny state, be it communist, fascist, theocratic, or ‘for our own good’. Leave me the hell alone to live my life as I see fit, without any kind of government interence.
Report Post »JimL
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 1:03pmRealLib: Orphan “placement” and “care” of victims of slavery, sex– solely the domain of the Nanny State?
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:28amhomosexuality is a chosen lifestyle by many men and women based on their lusts of the flesh, the perversion of sex.
they may deny it, but its their choice. It all starts in the mind. Once they’ve convinced themselves (don’t matter which age), it will be hard to convince themselves otherwise. A lie repeatedly told will become the truth to them.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:38amGiven the fact that societies throughout history have routinely condemned homosexuals to prison, death and torture and yet there have always been homosexuals, wouldn’t this point to the fact that its something more than just having nothing to do on a Saturday night?
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:44amThis social con is a prime example of a socially challenged idiot.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:00amto PubliusPencilman
define which society you are referring to. I know for a fact that Muslim countries do condemn and act based on their religious laws that does put to death people who do not follow the norm when it comes to sex.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:02amto THXll38
you are the very definition of a socially challenged idiot. You probably like it living down there in your mother’s basement, don’t you?
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:51am@PLUBIUS
Society had done the same with murederers, rapist, thieves, and prostitutes and yet they still exist. All your point proves is that there has always been sin.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:04am@ Publi…so murder, stealing, lying etc have been problems in all societies and haven’t been eradicated, so we should just accept those things as normal and moral lifestyle choices?
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:24amHow nice for them. This resolution has no validity whatsoever outside the doors of their churches. It is not an excuse for their members to discriminate against gays, and it is not a reason to interfere in the government of our secular nation. They may think whatever they wish in their churches and in their minds, but this resolution does not give them the right to force their outdated religious claptrap on the rest of us.
Report Post »PingPongPing
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:29ambased on precedents, gay rights does not overpower religious rights.
Report Post »GaltLine
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:36amAnd just what is it you would FORCE Christians to do?
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:38amAnd religious rights do not overpower our secular Constitution or trump the rights of nonChrisitians to believe in other religions and other moralities.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:39amBased on precedents, religious rights do not abridge other rights.
Report Post »RealLiibertarian
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:47am@Galtline- nothing except what is in the secular law. Not discriminate against gays in any manner, and respect all other religions the way you wish to be respected. Christians do not have primacy and do not get to make the rules for the rest of us. Keep your religion out of politics and I’ll do the same, fair?
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:08amNo, not fair. Secular huminism IS your religion. The desire to have sex with you’re own gender does not a race make. Sodomites have the SAME EXACT rights that a straight man has. What they want is special rights. Black men did not have the same exact rights that white men had to no fault of their own. If gays want to be classified as a distinct group of people, they have the burden of proof on them them! Since gays are black, white, asian, latino, men, women the ONLY distinction is what they like to do in their bedroom. Plus, studies done by GAY organizations show that nearly 80% of gays have had heterosexual sex in their lifetime so that blows that argument out of the water. Game over, thanks for playing.
Report Post »GaltLine
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:14amOK Methodists. It’s your turn.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:14amAmen!
Report Post »revitup
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:12amWhat if the term Jesus is a turn off?Is it the term “southern” or “baptist” thet they feel is a turn off?
Report Post »How do “Christians ” justify going to the den of sin and land of voodoo to claim Southern Baptist to be turn off?
lukerw
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:10amCivil Rights is Voodoo Law… where Minorities received Special Privileges, so they can feel Equal to people who are Successful! Liberals are IDIOTS!
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:43amCivil rights were created due to the actions of man, based on an ideology that one group of persons is better than the other and/or racially/bigotry charged or both. Social cons and ignorance is fulling the fire of this topic.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:16amAn ideology that had very little credibility until liberals invented Darwinian evolution which is used to legitimize bigotry, which is apparently defined now as any disagreement with a liberal.
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