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• ANALYSIS: Why gay marriage wouldn't surprise Paul

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, June 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  Ancient writings “refute the claim of LGBT advocates that adult, monogamous, loving homosexual relationships were unknown in the ancient world.”

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- It's common for proponents of gay marriage to claim that Scripture condemns only promiscuous, predatory and pedophilic homosexual behavior, as if the biblical authors had no knowledge of consensual, adult, monogamous homosexuality. In some cases, LGBT advocates state explicitly that the ancient world was ignorant of modern forms of homosexuality.

  But that claim is false. And believers should be prepared to engage its advocates in the ongoing cultural debate over same-sex marriage. Read More

• Gay marriage festering in CA, AL, PCUSA

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, March 19, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "The crux of the matter is this: Does the Bible define morality or does our experience define morality?"

  -- Jeff Iorg

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- From churches in California and Alabama to the largest Presbyterian denomination in America, gay marriage continues to prompt concern in the larger evangelical community. Read More

• 'Inclusive' Ala. church may be disfellowshipped

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, February 19, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP) -- The officers of an Alabama Baptist association have recommended that the association's executive board withdraw fellowship from a church whose leaders have given their pastor freedom to perform same-sex weddings. Read More

• More Ala. counties OK gay marriage

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 17, 2015 (9 years ago)

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- Following a week of tumult in Alabama concerning gay marriage, most of the state's counties are now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But the chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court continues to argue that state judges who issue marriage licenses are not bound by the federal court ruling that declared Alabama's gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Read More

• Ala. minister backs gay marriage 'enthusiastically'

  by David Roach, posted Tuesday, February 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (BP) -- Following a federal court's legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, a volunteer minister at a Southern Baptist church has begun performing gay weddings. Read More