Despite the fact that the Southern Baptist Convention rails against homosexuality, one brave North Carolina congregation opened their doors to a gay man and his family, who had been shunned at their previous house of worship. [NY Times]
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How "Christian" of all those churches that shunned that family!
What a great story. Kudos to the Times & the writer. Really well told.
I grew up Southern Baptist in the 60's & 70's in the southeast. While I don't recall it having a drag choir or anything I also don't remember it as being so hateful and obsessed with homosexuality and other such things that it is obsessed with. It seemed to be trying to move forward with the times as best it could and make going to church a place where one could make friends and feel like they had a community. Hell, Jimmy Carter was a Southern Baptist and he did an interview with Playboy back then, he got some flackbut it was not like he was condemned to eternal damnation for it. I think when Reagan became president, something shifted in the consciousness of the U.S. and not for the good. A new conservatism took place whose God is all about power, money & control through guilt and condemnation.