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Glendale's half-century associations with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention have been dissolved over the past month because of Baker. Baptist officials said the church's choice to support Baker, currently its only full-time minister, left them with no choice.

When I read the title, I wondered why the SBC hadn't already disassociated itself. Good, they didn't waste any time.

Jesus died for all the lost, gays as well as straights. But the scripture is clear. Continuing in the gay lifestyle is incompatible with Christianity. It's a failure to submit to Jesus as the Lord of your life.

Ask any gay and he will tell you something like "I have to be true to myself". Forget his maker, he's focused on self.

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of people who identify themselves as Christian simply on the basis of "being loving." I know a woman in my former church who came out of a lesbian lifestyle and decided to go back into it a few years later. One of her roomates, a straight but silly and emotionally weak woman, all of a sudden up and married a woman one day. Took everyone by surprize, because she had been married to a man a few years prior and had dated men after her divorce. Looks like there was a different kind of evangelism taking place.

I am 47 and single. I have never been married and believe me, there are a lot of things I wish that Scripture didn't explicitly state. I fall short as we all do, but I'm not about to excuse my sin and call myself Christian because I have some cockeyed notion of "love." Nor will I comfort myself with the fact that Jesus loves me, or with the fact that He hung around sinners. The fact of the matter is that God loves every person equally....even the ones to whom He will say, "Depart from me, I never knew you." I cannot fathom how people think they are safe because they hold to some silly notion that not judging people equates with love. Jesus also said to the woman caught in adultery, "go and sin no more." He in no way excused her sin. A righteous God makes demands of us.....darn it!