First Baptist Church to Ordain Gay, Transgender Ministers

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First Baptist Church to Ordain Gay, Transgender Ministers

http://www.charismanews.com/us/51020-first-baptist-church-to-ordain-gay-transgender-ministers 🔗

Charisma News
4:00PM EDT 8/13/2015 Jessilyn Justice   

A former Southern Baptist Church has decided all are welcomed in their pulpit, going so far as to ordain gay and transgender ministers.

First Baptist of Greenville, South Carolina—the church home of the first Southern Baptist Convention president—has taken a bold move in "embracing the complexities of gender identity."

"What I heard was, 'We need to do the right thing, regardless of what anybody thinks or says about us,'" Senior Pastor Jim Dant tells Greenville Online. "There were a few people who said, 'Are they going to start calling us the gay church in town?'"
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I am in shock and so glad to see. Now if other Baptist Churches would learn to understand "Love" it would be a giant leap forward.

This is a church I think I could like!

[Lady Smith]

Wow! I never would have predicted that a Baptist Church could be so accepting.  Just as well I didn't bet money on it then  😉

[gennee]

This is wonderful news! In South Carolina, too.

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