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Baptist group ejects church for pastor's gay rights support
WOWK TV NEWS 13 ^ | May 2, 2018 | WOWK

Posted on 05/02/2018 5:52:35 PM PDT by Morgana

Edited on 05/02/2018 6:37:08 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) - A church in West Virginia has been voted out of its local Baptist association because its pastor says gays and lesbians should be welcomed.

The Times West Virginian reports the Fairmont Baptist Association voted to disfellow the First Baptist Church in early April.


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TOPICS: Current Events; Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues
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To: Morgana

Affiliated with the liberal American Baptists instead of the Southern Baptists.


41 posted on 05/02/2018 8:09:04 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Morgana

On the link to the teachers helping students, please vote for Sue Smith of Hermes Elementary. Good, Godly woman.


42 posted on 05/02/2018 8:12:28 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: raiderboy

Kindly stop spouting BS on this forum.


43 posted on 05/02/2018 8:25:12 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

Please stop your negativism and join the discussion by addressing the actual subject with your views. What are your actual views on the subject??


44 posted on 05/02/2018 8:33:36 PM PDT by raiderboy (" weÂ’ll close down the country because we need border" DJT NOW !!)
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To: Morgana
Who else is Sick of all the LGBTQRST CRAP 💩? Go away puhleeeeeeeeease
45 posted on 05/02/2018 8:34:22 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: raiderboy; Mrs. Don-o

raiderboy is telling the truth, it used to be labeled a mental illness and treated as such. Then homos got into the mental health system and changed the codes so that it was no longer viewed as a mental illness. Just like pedos are now trying to do.


46 posted on 05/02/2018 9:04:08 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

See my post 46


47 posted on 05/02/2018 9:07:30 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

It is called morality.


48 posted on 05/03/2018 4:27:50 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
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To: raiderboy
If I may ask, could you provide some links/sources/documentation for these assertions?

With reference to the man I mentioned before, I'm quite sure ECT didn't jolt him out of homosexual promiscuity.

For those who might not know, Electroconvusive Therapy (ECT) is Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). It's not "torture" or "frying people's brains". It's is a procedure with often less side-effects than drugs in treating certain mental illnesses.

Small electric currents are passed through the brain, intentionally triggering a brief seizure. It's done under anesthesia, it's very low-voltage (unlike in decades past) and it does quickly reverse symptoms of some serious mental illnesses like severe depression, severe mania, and catatonia.

It's within ethical medical practice to do ECT for these maladies as a last resort.

I think this is not so for homosexuality.

But I am open to countervailing evidence, if you can supply it.

49 posted on 05/03/2018 7:09:48 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I pray that your love may abound more and more in real knowledge and all discernment." - Phil 1:9)
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To: Morgana; raiderboy
I do believe that homosexual inclination is a form of mental/emotional disorder. What I am not convinced of, specifically, is that ECT can cure it. That is, without unacceptable side-effects, like loss of affect or of mental capability.

With the possible exception of saving the life of a person bent on self-harm/suicide, ECT should not be imposed on a non-consenting rational subject. That would be gravely unethical, a form of medical assault.

50 posted on 05/03/2018 7:17:08 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("I pray that your love may abound more and more in real knowledge and all discernment." - Phil 1:9)
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To: Morgana
A church in West Virginia has been voted out of its local Baptist association because its pastor says gays and lesbians should be welcomed.

Welcomed as what? As members? As clergy? As attendees?

51 posted on 05/03/2018 7:20:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: raiderboy
They are mandated to keep their heads covered and their mouths shut except addressing questions to their husbands.

I'll bet Mrs. Raiderboy is a hoot to be around.

52 posted on 05/03/2018 7:22:02 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: fungoking
even a day to have your pets “blessed”.

For Catholics that's early October. The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. It celebrates the fact that animals, too, are God's creation. What's wrong with that?

53 posted on 05/03/2018 7:29:36 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
"Welcomed as what? As members? As clergy? As attendees?"

That was my question too. Certainly they should be welcome to attend services and hear the Gospel but they are not welcome to join nor are they welcome to call themselves Christians while still openly engaging in unrepentant sin.

54 posted on 05/03/2018 7:45:07 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Morgana
"...been voted out of its local Baptist association because its pastor says gays and lesbians should be welcomed affirmed in their sin."

I hate having to constantly correct fake news.

55 posted on 05/03/2018 8:00:26 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

At university i had courses in mental disorders in my minor . At that time ,homosexuality was criminal if exhibited in public. There was not involuntary ECT even even but many were driven by fear of criminal prosecution to remove that demon. Most of those studies, like Shockley and Jensen have been scrubbed by the political correct police. But i was a good student.


56 posted on 05/03/2018 8:07:34 AM PDT by raiderboy (" weÂ’ll close down the country because we need border" DJT NOW !!)
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To: raiderboy
You have given us the benefit of your early studies, which I take into consideration. But I would still like to see evidence.

I'm not demanding that you get it for me. Maybe the research has been put into the PC black hole. I'm just reflecting that the only actual evidence I've seen was that of the homosexual person I knew, Tim, who after ECT was not suicidal but still (as he himself demonstrated) compulsively promiscuous.

57 posted on 05/03/2018 8:37:43 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (We adore thee O Christ and we bless thee; for by thy holy cross thou hast redeemed the world.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; raiderboy

Back in the old days I think they used shock treatment for everything not just homosexuality. No matter what your mental illness was. Now they just give you drugs. Same difference.


58 posted on 05/03/2018 11:42:51 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Gil4

It shouldn’t have come to that. Having a female “pastor” should have done it.


That is a fact because that is what the bible says.


59 posted on 05/03/2018 12:50:08 PM PDT by ravenwolf (Left lane drivers and tailgaters have the smallest brains in the world.)
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To: raiderboy; Morgana

I see where you are coming from now. Message received. My mistake.


60 posted on 05/03/2018 1:07:50 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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