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 states 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 clerks 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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Hmmmm. So this so-called “pastor” thinks that homosexuality is fine but infant baptism is sinful?
Ping.
I kind of doubt this is an SBC church :-)
Ah, it might be about as Baptist as the Westburros, only a different kind of error.
Jews don’t recognize Jesus.
Protestants don’t recognize the Pope.
Baptists don’t recognize each other in the back room.
back room... i thought that was bar room...
Ain’t that the danged truth!
Have you heard of a traitor named John Roberts? Never say never again.
Well, in this case, it’d work either way, wouldn’t it?
Nonsense. The Catholic Church has its Father Pfleger crowd who are essentially the same as this guy's crowd. One is a false Baptist the other a false Catholic. Both are false Christians.
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.
BINO
It happens.
Andrea Dworkin & John Stoltenberg
Leonard Woolf & Virginia Woolf
Vita Sackville-West & Harold Nicolson
And any number of famous (in their day) late Victorian upperclass couples.
True.
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