Pastor Leads Christian Movement Opposing Homosexual Agenda in NC Schools

American Family Association ^ | December 15, 2003 | Jim Brown

[Kuksool]

A coalition of evangelical Christians has successfully fended off a campaign by homosexual activists in one North Carolina school district.

Members of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) have been pressuring the Winston-Salem/Forsyth School Board to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" in the district's nondiscrimination policy. However, the board recently decided not to revise its policy.

Pastor Ron Baity of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem led a coalition of Christians that opposed the pro-homosexual effort. He says for a long time homosexual activists, and especially the GLSEN crowd, have been coming to the school board meetings and pushing their agenda, while not a single church in the area came and spoke out against their movement.

When his group finally got organized to start attending the board meetings and making their voices heard, he says members of the board said "We've been wondering where the churches are at." But Baity says as a result of the coalition speaking out, things started to change immediately.

"It's been a real burst of spiritual energy for our people because they've been encouraged to see that if you do get involved, there is a possibility that you can make a change," the coalition leader notes. "It's amazing what you can accomplish if you get a group of people together of like mind and just approach the authorities," Baity says.

The pastor contends that the people pushing the homosexual agenda in America are in the minority, but he says, "they speak as if they are the majority -- and the majority of Bible-believing people need to rise up and get actively involved."

Baity believes Christians today are suffering the consequences of having been silent too long on important societal issues.

[ArGee]

So the Rev. Baity supports discrimination against gay students.

How did he support discrimination against gay students?

I wonder if Jesus Christ, who spent much of his time with the sick, the poor, prostitutes,criminals, drunkards and other outcasts, would take the same position?

He spent his time healing and helping them, not rejecting the idea that they need help.

True compassion for homosexuals demands they receive treatment, not tolerance.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

If you think Jesus would condone the persecution of gay teenagers, you don't understand His teachings at all

If you think that refusing to grant special status to gay students is the same thing as persecuting them, you don't understand the English language at all.

Jesus would never have persecuted gay students. He would have healed them, then told them, "Go and sin no more."

Shalom.

[ArGee]

I'm not surprised that you're running away in embarrassment since it's obvious you don't know the scriptures as well as you claim to and have been proven wrong

I don't know about whether templar knows the scriptures, but you have not proven anything except that you know how to throw out an empty challenge.

Shalom.

[ArGee]

Jesus condemned all sex outside of marriage, both hetero or homosexual and you know it,

He also clearly reinforced the definition of marriage as one man and one woman for life, as defined in Genesis 3.

Shalom.

[ladylib]

Who is persecuting gay teenagers? Today, states have anti-bullying policies in effect in their schools. That doesn't mean that they have to invite gay groups into their schools.

[ladylib]

At one time churches did speak out on community affairs and even what went on in the public schools. Churchgoers send their children to these schools. Now churches are too afraid to because they don't want to seem anti-PC. They want to be "inclusive." They have just as much right to speak about issues as far as I'm concerned, at least as much of a right as the ACLU does and GLSEN.

[AppyPappy]

Adultery - Sex outside marriage. See the story of the woman at the well.

[AppyPappy]

Christians aren't covered under laws about clean and unclean. You really don't know much about this subject, do you?

[scripter]

Here, the synpotics

Whoops. That's synoptics - I have no idea what synpotics are :-) and after a quick google, I see I'm not the only one who transposed two letters to make that very mistake!

[Zack Nguyen]

Surely Jesus Christ would not be in favor of the homosexual lifestyle being legitimized. Homosexuals need to be forgiven (just like everyone else), not told that they are a special group with a normative lifestyle.

[Zack Nguyen]

Romans 1. All Scripture is God-breathed, so the words of Romans come from the mouth of God every bit as much as anything else.

[Zack Nguyen]

The question is :would Jesus be for or against a policy of treating gay teenagers the same as other students?

Ah, but that's the point. The "anti-discrimination" statute will give them special rights by giving them the same status as ethnic or religious minorities, which is simply wrong. Kids who are engaging in homosexual conduct shouldn't be hurt or persecuted, but they should be counseled.

[Michael2001]

Christians need to be active. This is proof that it does work.

[Hat-Trick]

There is no such thing as a 'gay' teenager. There are teenagers who are afflicted with Same-sex Attraction Disorder (SAD) (evidenced by the practice of homosexual behavior) but there are no teenagers who have homosexual behavior as an immutable characteristic. This behavior occurs as a result of mental disease caused by trauma and is totally curable.

Exactly! 1st Corinthians 10:13 says: "No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what your are able, and with every temptation will provide a way of escape so that you will be able to endure". In other words, we have no inherent, pre-disposition that renders us powerless to overcome sin (practicing homosexual sex or anything else defined as sin).

Hat-Trick