Monday, November 21, 2011

NC: A first: Baptist Church Votes "No Marriages Until Gays Can Marry Too"

38403_418268259247_511089247_4403474_8091591_nBaptist church in Raleigh, North Carolina has voted to prohibit her from signing marriage certificates until gay couples can marry too.

The congregants said in a formal statement that current North Carolina law - and the language proposed for a vote next year on an amendment to the state Constitution - discriminates against same-sex couples "by denying them the rights and privileges enjoyed by heterosexual married couples." "As people of faith, affirming the Christian teaching that before God all people are equal, we will no longer participate in this discrimination," the church's statement says. The vote was unanimous and brought tears to the eyes of some of the 100 or so members who stood to vote in favor of the "statement on marriage ceremonies."

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