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Posted on 08/09/2013 4:04:46 PM PDT by wonkowasright
A misdemeanor trespassing trial for a gay Baptist minister and his partner who refused to leave a city clerk’s office after being denied a marriage license was postponed Monday when attorneys were unable to come up with an impartial jury.
Attorneys for Maurice “Bojangles” Blanchard and Dominique James and prosecutors questioned prospective jurors Aug. 6 in Jefferson County District Court in Louisville, Ky. After people were eliminated for various reasons, not enough remained in the jury pool for the trial to proceed. The trial was rescheduled for Nov. 25.
Blanchard and James tried to apply for a marriage license in January in defiance of a state law that bans gay couples from marrying. Then they staged a sit-in that led to their arrest on a charge of third-degree criminal trespassing. If convicted they face a $250 fine.
Blanchard, a local gay-rights activist, is a student at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and an ordained Baptist minister who leads True Colors, a ministry begun in January 2011 as an affirming outreach ministry to those in the LGBTQ community at Highland Baptist Church.
I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you in worn out shoes Silver hair, ragged shirt and baggy pants, that old soft shoe He'd jump so high, he'd jump so high, then he lightly touch down? Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, dance.
Gay Baptist Preachers on the next Geraldo...
Post of the day.
Considering there is no governing body that controls independent Baptist churches, anyone can claim their church “Baptist”. Receive ordination (online or otherwise), rent a building space and hang a sign outside cliaming your building to be a Baptist church ... that’s all it takes.
Anyone can call themselves a Baptist.. unfortunately... I mean look at Al Gores friends in Westboro
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Ping
Are you trying to make some kind of point with this comment?
If so, what is it?
Are you trying to generate some type of discussion by posting this article?
If so, what is it?
What is being hidden? Postponed?
What a freak
The yankee baptists have infiltrated KY.
No surprise that he attends the flagship seminary of the PCUSA.
It’s Cooperative Baptist - the Jimmy Carter group.
You can't make this stuff up.
In my youth I went out with a gal named Dominique. She was a wild one. Last I heard she opened a gun store.
When I saw the name Dominique, I thought of Dominique Francon, Howard Roark's (eventual) lover in Ayn Rand's Fountainhead.
(And a quirky relationship that was, indeed.)
“Gay” Baptist?
So in his worldview, sodomy is not a sin but baptizing a baby is? :?
remember anyone can call themselves a “Baptist”
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