Published 2 years ago

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

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College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., voted to leave SBC in 1999. SBC Executive Committee voted to remove it from rolls because of its open affirmation, approval of homosexual behavior. Southern Baptist churches are self-governing, so convention can't tell them what to do or believe.

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LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

2 years ago·United States

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The Washington Post

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

Leaders of College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, thought it was odd when the Southern Baptist Convention recently sent queries about the congregation’s LGBTQ-affirming ministry

2 years ago

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The Hill

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?” The family was attending a conservative Southern Baptist church in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area that considered homosexual activity to be sinful. “We had…

2 years ago·Washington, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a […]

2 years ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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WPLG

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?”The family was attending a conservative Southern Baptist church in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area that considered homosexual activity to be sinful. “We had been taught one thing, but we knew our daughter loved Jesus,” Joyce said. “She was very open with us during her struggle to fi…

2 years ago·Miami, United States

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Click on Detroit

LGBTQ-friendly church OK with getting Southern Baptist boot

When her teenage daughter came out as a lesbian several years ago, one of the first things Caroline Joyce did was to Google, “Can you be gay and be a Christian?”The family was attending a conservative Southern Baptist church in the Greensboro, North Carolina, area that considered homosexual activity to be sinful. “We had been taught one thing, but we knew our daughter loved Jesus,” Joyce said. “She was very open with us during her struggle to fi…

2 years ago·Detroit, United States

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