Posted on 06/09/2011 3:02:36 AM PDT by Cronos
A new coalition announced that it was starting a petition today on the GetEQUAL website (www.getequal.org), calling on the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to apologize for the harm its teachings are causing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Pointing to current teachings and ministries of the SBC, the coalition is attempting to shed light on harmful teachings and actions that individual congregations, pastors, and SBC leadership have embraced, targeting the LGBT community — particularly LGBT youth. These words and actions include everything from counseling parents to kick gay youth out of their homes to the horrifying practices of its ex-gay program. In fact, the Southern Baptist Convention is one of the nations leading promoters of the so-called ex-gay industry, currently being profiled by CNN as part of a three-part series called “The Sissy Boy Experiment.”
The Southern Baptist Convention will be meeting next week in Phoenix for their annual convention, and petition signatures will be delivered there.
We call on the Southern Baptist Convention to stop misusing the Bible to promote religion-based bigotry and start recognizing the enormous pain and suffering caused by its mistreatment of LGBT people, particularly vulnerable youth, said Dr. Jack McKinney, a former Southern Baptist minister and spokesperson for Faith in America. History has not been kind to the Southern Baptist Convention’s record on minorities, and it is making the same awful mistake today by perpetuating abuse against gay people.
The anti-gay teachings of the Southern Baptist church nearly led me to suicide, said Dr. Jerry Stephenson, a former Southern Baptist minister and board member for Truth Wins Out. I entered an ex-gay ministry that falsely claimed I could change my sexual orientation and this led to a deep depression. Only after I accepted my true self was I able to reconcile my faith and sexual orientation. The Southern Baptist Convention needs to apologize because its policies are hurting real people.
This petition drive is being organized by the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, Believe OutLoud, Faith in America, GetEQUAL, Soulforce and Truth Wins Out.
“Given the arc of justice and the trajectory of history, there is no doubt the SBC will offer a full-fledged apology to the LGBT community in the future,” reads a letter that petition signers will send to SBCs leadership. “We ask the Southern Baptist Convention to prayerfully consider whether the motive behind the mistreatment and harm toward LGBT individuals, especially youth, is born of political gain and agendas rather the spirit of Christ.”
“The time for this discrimination — especially the insidious bigotry that has been wrapped in the cloak of faith — to end. It’s time for religious entities like the Southern Baptist Convention to apologize for the immense harm they’ve done to our community, and to stop providing cover for politicians to disguise their political bigotry as courageous,” said Robin McGehee, executive director of GetEQUAL. “Stop it now, apologize now, and let us all move forward together.”
Further details about the petition delivery next week in Phoenix will be available in the next few days.
GetEQUAL is a national, direct action lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization. Emphasizing direct action and people power, the mission of GetEQUAL is to empower the LGBT community and its allies to take action to demand full legal and social equality, and to hold accountable those who stand in the way. For more information on GetEQUAL, please visit: http://www.getequal.org. You can follow GetEQUAL on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/getequal, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/GetEQUAL, or on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/getequal.
Faith In America was formed as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization in 2005 to effectively counter-message the bigotry, prejudice and hostility toward the LGBT community being sold to the public for several decades under the guise of religious belief and religious teaching.
Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that fights anti-gay religious extremism. TWO monitors anti-LGBT organizations, documents their lies and exposes their leaders as charlatans. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality. TWOs goal is to create a world where LGBT individuals can live openly, honestly and true to themselves.
Read the last bit of who are these guys attacking the SBC (i.e. attacking us)
Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that fights anti-gay religious extremism. TWO monitors anti-LGBT organizations, documents their lies and exposes their leaders as charlatans. TWO specializes in turning information into action by organizing, advocating and fighting for LGBT equality. TWOs goal is to create a world where LGBT individuals can live openly, honestly and true to themselves.
The anti-gay teachings of the Southern Baptist church nearly led me to suicide, said Dr. Jerry Stephenson, a former Southern Baptist minister and board member for Truth Wins Out. I entered an ex-gay ministry that falsely claimed I could change my sexual orientation and this led to a deep depression. Only after I accepted my true self was I able to reconcile my faith and sexual orientation. The Southern Baptist Convention needs to apologize because its policies are hurting real people.
Southern Baptists be warned -- the gay brigade is now targeting you. However, they should be reminded that an attack on the SBC is an attack on all conservative Christians, whether Baptist or Presbyterian or orthodoxy (Catholic/Orthodox/Oriental/Assyrian) etc.
Hey, fudge packers!
There are a couple million Muslims in this country who believe in EXECUTING homosexuals.
Sounds like some folks have their priorities out of line. But what can you expect from people who think the square peg belongs in the round hole?
Get stuffed!
Watch! Christian will be begging the sodomites’ forgiveness within a decade.
Personally, I don’t care if sodomites like the Bible or not. I am sticking with the Bible. Sodomites should leave other people’s children alone.
Over Here
They're already doing that, Hoss.
Yes, please apologize for.Jimmy Carter.
Yes, please apologize for.Jimmy Carter.
Yes, please apologize for.Jimmy Carter.
Dear ‘activists’...
Speaking for myself only, Christians believe there is a hell. Go to it.
The strategy here is twofold: to attack the SBC of course, but also to use any possible apology as evidence in crippling civil suits.
Southern Baptists want gays to apologize for their immoral, perverted,abominable lifestyle.
And they use the same tactics against every Christian group...
It’s a topsy turvy crazy world when you cannot make fun of men having sex with each other.
Freud would have a field day with these “special interest” groups dividing our country.
They humbly appear on the scene asking only to be given equal rights.
Then before you know it they’re acting like a bunch of jack-booted storm troopers, trampling on the rights of anyone who dares to have a different opinion.
There is nothing in the US Constitution that compels Americans to subsidize other people’s lack of self-esteem.
It is written ... HAS been written for a long time, and unapologetically calls for their death in the OT.
Sick demented demons be in those waters... infectious evil... demented souls... lost souls. Some may see the light but most will swim in the pit.
LLS
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 3, “Stupid Parents, Enlightened Kids”
Every fall, millions of parents drop their children off at taxpayer-funded public schools, assuming that their childrens education will provide what they need to be successful in life: strong academics, civility, and responsibility.
Unfortunately, many of these same parents have little or no idea of what is happening to their children once they pass through the classroom door. Instead of learning the three Rs or how to be good citizens like many of us were taught, they are learning how to reject the values that many of their parents have tried hard to instill in them. Sadly, many of these parents refuse to believe that this is happening, even when you produce evidence of how the radical homosexual activists are targeting children in public schools to accept, affirm, and be recruited into homosexual behavior.
In some areas of the country where homosexual activists have had free reign for years, the indoctrination of children starts as early as kindergarten. At a Massachusetts Gay, Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conference, there was a specific workshop on how to incorporate gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues into the early elementary years.1 On the GLSEN website, there are elementary school lesson plans featuring the themes What is Boy/Girl? along with books with titles such as Queering Elementary Education. 2
GLSEN is one of the most vocal pro-homosexual groups. Its efforts to indoctrinate children are relentless. On April 9, 2003, GLSEN staged its second annual Day of Silence. Students were encouraged to remain silent throughout the day and not respond to their teachers or administrators. Organizers of the event told children that they should brainstorm a list of people who stand in your way. Those people included teachers, counselors, and administrators who have denied you their support in the past and whove expressed bias against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. It also suggested that the list include other children, school board members, people in the community, and relatives who have shown intolerance of homosexuality. The organizing manual notes that people who oppose you on your issue are known as, you guessed it, your opponents.
So, GLSEN is telling little children that their relatives are the enemy if they oppose homosexual behavior. Our question (and we are afraid of the answer): Does relatives include Mom and Dad? Indeed, we will see that this is exactly what GLSEN means. It does mean mom and dad.
In St. Louis, Missouri, Debra Loveless requested her right to exempt her daughter from a GLSEN seminar at her daughters public school. Her request was granted, but she also wanted to see what was being presented at the seminar. When she arrived, an armed security guard told her that school officials wanted her to leave the school grounds.3
In Silverlake, Massachusetts, a freshman health text says: Testing your ability to function sexually and give pleasure to another person may be less threatening in your early teens with people of your own sex . . . You may come to the conclusion that growing up means rejecting the values of your parents [emphasis added].4This statement blatantly acknowledges the agenda of radical homosexual activists: convince early teenagers to experiment with homosexual behavior and to reject the values of their parents. The students who received this text were told they could not take it home.
In Visalia, California, not exactly an urban center like San Francisco or Los Angeles, the school district agreed to implement anti-harassment programs conducted by GLSEN and aimed at all students and staff, after being sued by the ACLU. The settlement called for mandatory training for all school staff and high school students. The student training was described as being peer to peer, meaning students who do not agree with homosexual behavior will be pressured by their fellow classmates to comply. In addition, the district will name compliance coordinators to help parents, students and teachers with incidents of discrimination.5Big Brother is alive and well in Visalia, California, and he is watching you and your kids.
The indoctrination that takes place in our public schools has definitely had an effect in shaping teens attitudes toward homosexual behavior. In 2001, Zogby International released a poll that found that 85 percent of high school seniors thought homosexual men and lesbians should be accepted by society; 68 percent said homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children; 88 percent supported so-called hate-crimes legislation, and two-thirds thought same-sex “marriage” should be allowed. Even 80 percent of evangelical Christians supported hate-crimes legislation, which in its many proposed forms will be used to silence religious speech about homosexual behavior.6
One of parents key religious freedoms is the ability to raise their children to accept Jesus Christ into their lives and to train them to hold biblically based beliefs. In our public schools today, this religious freedom is under daily assault. Sad to say, large numbers of children may have already been lost to the pro-homosexual efforts that have been quietly implemented in our public schools over the past decade. But harm to future generations can still be prevented. Confused children can still be redeemed. However, it is going to take an army of parents, not just one individual here and there, who will rise up in righteous anger over what is happening to our children. The day when we can trust our public school system to affirm Americas traditional values is over. It is time to take back our schools from the radical homosexual activists for the sake of our children.
Satan has been trying to eliminate harmful things (harmful to him) from The Word Of God for a long time. Don’t pay any attention to him.
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