Posted on 02/18/2014 5:03:49 PM PST by wonkowasright
Bojangles Blanchard, an ordained Baptist minister in Louisville, Ky., says denying same-sex couples the benefits of marriage treats them as second-class citizens.
A Kentucky Baptist minister and gay-rights activist filed a lawsuit Feb. 14 claiming the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Maurice “Bojangles” Blanchard — who with his partner, Dominique James, was fined 1 cent for trespassing in November for refusing to leave a county clerk’s office after being told they could not apply for a marriage license — asked U.S. District Judge John Heyburn to build on his finding two days earlier that Kentucky must recognize same-sex unions performed legally in other states.
Blanchard leads the True Colors Ministry, founded in 2011 at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., as an outreach ministry to members of the LGBTQ community.
He and James and another couple denied marriage licenses by the county clerk in Louisville claim denying them rights available to others violates the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which says that no citizen can be denied equal protection under the law.
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I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you In worn out shoes With silver hair, a ragged shirt, and baggy pants The old soft shoe He jumped so high, jumped so high Then he lightly touched down ....
Some “Baptist”.
You are pretty good but no SDJ. :)
BINO
ABC, probably.
He is Baptist as much as a porn star with a crucifix around her neck. Romans chapter 1 is kicking his a$$.
there's a FDRQ AIDS carrier if i ever saw one... 
1) Rights are INDIVIDUAL - COUPLES do not have rights.
2) Either one of these individuals can get married any time they want - - just not to someone of the same sex - THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION !! - the law applies EQUALLY to EVERYONE regardless of your sexual proclivities.
Did I miss anything??
That jacket looks gay
Yep. Many years ago, a man I knew, moved out of town. I heard he got in front of some people at his new church and announced he was a homo. He was promptly kicked out. I don’t know what happened after that. Southern Baptists are not known for accepting that kind of behavior. That reminds me of the church minutes I found online of the church my gggrandparents attended in SC back in the early 1800’s. They kicked people out for such things as drinking, fighting, adultery, not attending district meetings, etc. It seems that today’s churches accept any kind of behavior but they were very strict at that church.
“2) Either one of these individuals can get married any time they want - - just not to someone of the same sex - THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION !! - the law applies EQUALLY to EVERYONE regardless of your sexual proclivities.”
Exactly, and there is no way that the Supreme Court could make a decision against that reasoning.
He may want to think about his lifestyle being unBiblical instead of unconstitutional.
2. Why does CBF exist?
During the ‘70's and ‘80's, the Southern Baptist Convention moved more and more toward Fundamentalism. In 1990, the moderate Baptists, whose voice had been stifled in SBC gatherings, held a conference in Atlanta to discuss the possibility of forming a separate organization. The basic disagreement centered on three things: 1) a hierarchical structure that threatened to erase equality among Baptists; 2) an interpretation of scripture that denied the possibility that God might call women to pastoral roles; and 3) an insistence that the Bible be held to a strict literalist interpretation, denying the right of the individual to draw conclusions about scripture based on his/her own prayerful study. The support for a separate organization was overwhelming, and in 1991, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship was born. For more information, see thefellowship.info.
guess he got the look he was going for then...
Who was this guy ordained by?
Pro-gay interpretations of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause aside, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect so-called gay rights. So the states are free to make laws which discriminate against the gay agenda, gay marriage in this case, as long as such laws don't also unreasonably abridge enumerated constitutional rights.
The reason why we're seeing cases like this which are otherwise easily constitutionally resolvable is the following imo. Sadly, parents have not only not been making sure that their children are being taught how our Constitution works, particularly how constitutionally enumerated rights versus 10th Amendment-protected state powers work, but children are also not being taught the differences between legislative, executive and judicial powers. This makes it easy for pro-gay activist judges to get away with wrongly legislating gay "rights" from the bench.
“Some “Baptist”.”
I hate to do a Rush and say “I told you so” but Baptists just like other protestants paved the way for this when they allowed and started using contraception. Now I know not all Baptists use it but a good many do, in fact I’ve been in arguments with the ones who are for it about why it’s wrong.
Ask anyone up Harlem way
Who that guy Bojangles is.
They may not know who's president,
But just ask them who Bojangles is.
He's in the most entrancing business,
In what they call the dancing business,
When there's a beat up on the street,
Brother, you go and bet all your dough,
Sister, you know, that ain't no one but Bo!
Oh, Bojangles of Harlem, you dance such hot stuff!
Young folks love you in Harlem, they say you've got stuff!
Tough guys rhumba out of pool rooms
And kids start trucking out of school rooms.
Oh, Bojangles of Harlem, the whole town's at your heels
Leaving their flats, missing their meals
Running like rats, going astray,
Throw those long legs away!
I can’t read his name without laughing...lol
take it else where and don’t call yourself a baptist. simple.
of course, their goal is to destroy such organizations...
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