Southern Baptist Convention Says “Gay Rights are Not Civil Rights”
Just one day after electing their first black president, the Southern Baptists Convention is making it clear that they do not consider gay rights to be the same as civil rights. The resolution was passed at the group’s annual meeting in New Orleans and states that marriage is “the exclusive union of one man and one woman” and that “all s****l behavior outside of marriage is sinful.”
The group also states that homosexuals have unique challenges but do not have the “distinguishing features of classes entitled to special protections.”
“We deny that the effort to legalize ‘same-s*x marriage’ qualifies as a civil rights issue since homosexuality does not qualify as a class meriting special protections, like race and gender,” according to the resolution.
David W. Key Sr., the director of the Baptist Studies program at Emory University, says that the group is seeking to respect the differences and rights of gays and lesbians while maintaining its core beliefs as an organization.
The group strictly forbids “any form or gay-bashing, whether disrespectful attitudes, hateful rhetoric, or hate-incited actions.”
The Southern Baptist Convention has been unique in being one of the only large religious organizations that has spoken clearly against gay marriage and civil rights for gays and lesbians. The group is 16 million strong, and has a reputation of harboring white conservatives.
Fred Luter Jr. was just elected as the organization’s first African American president. The move was applauded as a bold step toward the future for an organization that founded itself on the idea of maintaining slavery in the United States.
“If we stop appointing African Americans or Asians or Hispanics to leadership roles in this convention after my term is over, we failed. We absolutely failed,” Luter said. Luter says that, “This was a genuine, authentic move by this convention that says our doors are open, and the only way they can see that is not just putting up an African American president, but seeing other ethnic groups in other areas of this convention. Time will tell and I’ll be a cheerleader promoting that.”
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The SBC SAYING that Gay Rights is not Civil Rights reflects their inability to ACCURATELY UNDERSTAND that their beliefs are distorted by theological prejudice which impedes their ability to recognize that they are STUBBORNLY WRONG. Souther Baptists are religiously affilitated and are out of their league to speak on political and civil rights that are based upon subjective or relative biblical scriptural interpretations. Being that their is a separation of Church and State, I am dumbfounded why they feel the need to even speak on such a matter. These religious institutions should really have their non profit or non tax paying status REVOKED. The need to stay in their lane. They have enough challenges in trying to understand, interpret and live in accordance to their mythological teachings. I think that many of these Black Churches speak out on this issue because they want to feel RELEVANT, yet it makes them appear discrimnatory, contradictory to the teachings of their religious beliefs, and negligent to the ultimate aims of spirituality that lie in fostering harmony, peace, inclusion, reverence and unconditional love. THESE BLACK PEOPLE ARE A MESS!!
well said.
I agree with the Southern Baptist Convention’s position that Gay Rights are not Civil Rights. Civil Rights are not Gay Rights. Gay rights are Gay rights but not Civil Rights. Marriage is between one real man with a male s*x organ and one real live women with a female s*x organ.
Marriage is a sacred institution which has been ordained by God and any tampering with said institution is blasphemy toward the word of God. s*x between members of the same s*x is sickening and it is a sin before the eyes of God. No man or woman should lie or lay with a member of the same s*x.
Any man that doesn’t like to feel the warm tender body of a women’s b**t, and to explore the deep inner soul of her v****a is simply sick. There is no better feeling than a man and woman having s*x.
The US and the world community is largely becoming another great big Sodom and Gomorrah with its sin sick ways.
I also agree with the southern baptist convention’s position. Ronald, I could not have said it better myself.
Hmmm, some of you seem TO FORGET, this same mindset SUPPORTED SLAVERY ON BIBLICAL TERMS, SUPPORTED JIM CROW, and for the longest SUBJUGATED WOMEN…..the SBC needs to go the way of the dinasours!
Their right, it’s not.
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! FINALLY SOMEBODY SAY THE TRUTH IN PUBLIC.. STOP COMPARING GAY RIGHTS TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ALSO IDIOTS.. MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN WITH A REAL p***s AND A WOMAN WITH A v****a.. HOW YOU GOING TO GO AGAINST WHAT GOD SAY??? UNBELIEVABLE AND STOP TELLING KIDS ITS OK TO BE GAY, IT IS NOT OK TO BE GAY…STOP THIS BULLSHIT CONFUSING THESE YOUNG KIDS..
Gay issues are CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES….homosexuality is a common occurrence within the animal kingdom of species (WHICH INCLUDES MAN)…..get over your phobia, gay people ARE NOT A THREAT TO HUMANITY!!!
Along with life, God also gave humans and animals free will. Though we may sin and do things that are not pleasing in the eyes of God, that does NOT mean to continue to do them. That being said, the bible includes murders, but it also says “Thou Shalt Not Kill”, which one of those do you think is the lesson we should follow? The bible is also states that marriage is a sacred union between MAN AND WOMAN. Two men cannot birth a baby, and two women normally cannot birth a baby, so this is also a clear fact that it should not happen! Everyone proclaiming that they are wrong in this subject simply refuse to acknowledge the ideals blatantly stated in Christianity. Though I am not judging, just simply stating facts.
Also, this whole idea about separation of church and state is completely stupid when the entirety of the United States is founded upon Christian beliefs. Marriage should be in the jurisdiction of the churches. If homosexuals would like to be married, then they should go make their own churches and start start own their own non-denominational beliefs instead of trying to force them onto an already existing belief set! You don’t see the state handling Ramadon, Kwanzaa, or Bar Mitzvahs, because they TRULY have separation of church and state.
All in all, the Southern Baptist Church is right in their beliefs and like another poster said before me, this society is just becoming another Sodom and Gomorrah. I suggest people retread that chapter in the Bible.
There is mythological bird, flying foward with it’s head looking to its rear with an egg, representing the future in its mouth. Literally it means, “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot. Society by accepting same s*x marrige, which to me represents emotions [feelings] and not rational, like reading, writing and arithmatic which I thought was to assist is building up society in the forms of what society rests upon today. Emothions, have nothing to do with astrology, astrology, geometry, algebra, physics, psychology, philosophy, or as Count Volney wrote in is book, “Ruins Of Empires: “There is a race of Black people whom we owe our arts, sciences and even our very use of speech. I guess the “new bird” will have NOTHING in its mouth [TO REPRESENT THE FUTURE]. Thank GOD the birds and bees, i hope will not follow this example of same s*x marrige and homosexuality as a method to promote future civilization; be cause if they do, there will be none.
To take part of Civil Rights you have to be part of it creation with all of the horrible action that was done towards the most hated race on earth but the Gays and Lesbians wouldn’t accept that part of history for they sat by and watch how much evil violence and carnage that was done towards us nearly 500 years and still being done towards us to this day.My message is Don’t Try to be part of our suffering when most of you never experience it in your life.Let my skin and your sin stay separate forever and allow us to live our lives the way we want whether we accept you or not its our decision and our rights as free people.
Pimps-in-the-pulpits speaketh as the jack-legged, fear mongering, self-righted hateful humans we have to live with, you’d think? Ignore them, except when reading about their non-sense while consuming news reporting of the world community as a enlighten citizen. Reasoned minded enlighten people of the world should be concerned for there are weaker minds that can be consuming such hatefulness.
Civil rights are civil rights you don’t get to pick and choose who’s civil rights you will support and not in a civil society. There has to be a seperation of Church and State for a civil society to exist because most of us Christians (and other religions) cannot act with the compassion of Christ. Jesus is grace and God is judgement not anyone of us. His ultimate grace was telling us we didn’t need to judge and that all we needed to do is love. So Love First!
You CANNOT equate the right of gays and lesbians with those of blacks and women. Blacks, women and various other ethnic groups were born that way. Homosexuality is a CHOICE. They are NOT the same. Let’s distinguish that. For once the Southern Baptists are right. And they are following biblical standards.
You’re so right but they won’t listen because they’ve already condemn us for speaking out against them.My only problem is that they don’t go too far as to create a law that will force all of us who don’t want to be part of their ambition just so we could do as they say and violate our freedom of choice.The world is really going to end now with all this sin.
I agree with Juandero 100% and FYI prior to 1973 homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Now the man love boy group is trying to get petifiles removed as a mental disorder. Amazing what organization and money can do.
Hot young 19 year old black teen shakes a*s on homemade videos. Totally amateur, nothing for sale…just a freak with a*s.