Left that church about 5 years ago and never looked back.
Maybe the leaders can now point to where in the Holy Bible it states two homosexuals can marry.
Sorry folks, my mistake here.
I read Birmingham and immediately flashed to England. I don’t hear of Birmingham, Alabama nearly as often, but I should have picked up on it. And yes, I had heard of Brimingham, Alabama before.
Later...
That Holy Bible thingy is so......so OLD.......
Well, they would find nothing that says two homosexuals can marry, but they can point to numerous examples of gay love: Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, probably even Jesus and "The Beloved Disciple." And what about that young man in Mark 14 who was wearing nothing but a linen cloth and wound up running away naked from the soldiers who came to take Jesus? As for the prohibitions in the OT, well we don't follow lots of those prohibitions anymore. The original Sodomites were destroyed because they didn't provide proper hospitality. And as for what the Apostle Paul wrote -- well, he was just a cranky old bigot and possibly a closeted gay himself. What was his "thorn in the flesh", anyway? Probably just the pain of being in the closet.
I hope I don't have to put the sarcasm tag here. But this is how a lot of mainline church people read the Bible.
You left, but their “faithful” will remain.