[upchuck]

Southeast Christian Church first opened its doors in 1962 with 53 charter members in Louisville, KY. It has an average weekly attendance of 22,000 and a membership of over 30,000. It is the largest church in Kentucky and fifth largest in the United States.

Having lived in Louisville for a number of years, I can attest to this.

Their second church was pretty large and right down the street from me (when Southeast Christian sold it, it turned into a black church, can't remember the denomination).

Now the church is a typical megachurch. Physically large with a hugh membership. Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want to attend a church where you're a number.

It's interesting that the article doesn't explain Southeast's original desire to exit the BSA:

The church’s board of elders just voted to not renew their charter with Boy Scout Troop 212. Their decision wasn’t completely based upon the Boy Scouts’ vote to accept gays into their midst. In fact the church had notified the Boy Scouts earlier this year that they would not renew the charter for 2014.

When the issue of gays in the scouts first came up as a national issue, Southeast Christian Church began discussing the possibility of removing itself from the Boy Scouts so as not to be caught up in the debate.

Sounds like they were going to bail anyway and used the queer thing as an excuse.

[Mister Da]

This section is poorly written.

I read that SCC was deeply disturbed that the BSA would even CONSIDER allowing gays. This is why they were ending their charter with BSA. To the SCC, there was NO debate - gays & scouts do not mix.

This is the way to deal with perversion - there is NO debate, it is evil. When you agree to debate, you are tacitly agreeing there is something to debate, & place yourself at peril that you may lose that debate, not because you are wrong, but because you are out talked.

Fundamental morality is not debatable & cannot be changed by clever words.