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LISTEN: Florida Pastor Equates Gays With Serial Killers, Child Molesters

Posted 01.08.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Homophobia, LGBT Rights, Anti-Gay, Florida Anti-Gay Pastor, Florida, Gay Rights, Anti-Gay Pastors, Baptist Church, Anti-Gay Statements, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Gay Voices News

A Florida pastor equated homosexuality with serial killing, molestation and rape in a recent sermon, Good as You's Jeremy Hooper is reporting. Pas...

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Church Apologizes For Banning Black Marriage

AP | JEFF AMY | Posted 08.06.2012 | Weddings
Read More: African American Wedding Banned, Charles Wilson, Black Marriage, Te'andrea Wilson, Racist Church, Wedding Banned, Black Wedding Banned, Racism, Charles and Te'andrea Wilson, Baptist Church, Crystal Springs, Weddings News

JACKSON, Miss. -- A predominantly white Mississippi church has apologized for its refusal to allow a black couple to marry in its sanctuary, though th...

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Elise Foley

Evangelicals Unite On Immigration Reform Push

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Immigration Reform, Video, DREAM Act, Same-Sex Marriage Immigration, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Evangelicals Immigration, Immigration Equality, Focus on the Family, Baptist Church, Sojournors, Evangelicals, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A number of evangelical leaders announced on Tuesday they will speak to their congregations and to their lawmakers in a push to convince...

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North Carolina Baptist Church Votes To Back Same-Sex Marriage

Posted 11.21.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Lgbt, LGBT Issues, Gay Rights, Nancy Petty, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, LGBT Rights, Baptist Church, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, North Carolina, Gay Voices News

The congregation of a North Carolina-based Baptist church is taking an assertive stand in favor of marriage equality, prohibiting their pastor from le...

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WATCH: Ex-Students Describe Brutal Abuse At Baptist School

CNN | Danielle Cadet | Posted 11.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Fairhaven Baptist Church, Roger Voegtlin, Video, Child Abuse, Fairhaven Baptist Academy, Indiana, Baptist Church, Fairhaven Baptist College, Impact News

Former students of Fairhaven Baptist Academy in Indiana are speaking out about their experiences of abuse, including incidents of humiliation, hitting...

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Questions Of Identity Dominate CBF's 20th Anniversary Assembly

Alan P. Sherouse | Posted 08.27.2011 | Religion
Read More: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Identity, Baptists, Christianity, Christian Denominations, Baptist Church, Religion News
Alan P. Sherouse

CBF was birthed by a bold and prophetic spirit. The movement organized around Baptist principles of freedom, belief in the right of every individual to relate to God apart from institution or creed.

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After Controversy, Baptists Affirm Belief In 'Eternal' Hell

Posted 08.15.2011 | Religion
Read More: Southern Baptists, Southern Baptist Convention, Beliefs in Hell, Christianity, Baptist Church, Rob Bell, Baptist Belief in Hell, Hell, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service (RNS) Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 14) called hell an "eternal, conscious punishment" for...

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School Re-Segregation: How Faith Has Re-Ignited the Struggle for Justice

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Wake County Schools, School Integration, Baptist Church, Wake County, Naacp, Brown v. Board of Education, Martin Luther King, Wake County School Board, Rally, Nonviolent Action, Christianity, Integration, Tea Party, Raleigh, Rev. William Barber, Hkonj, Civil Rights, Religion News
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

The radical faith that inspired the prophetic leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. is now igniting a contemporary civil rights movement in North Carolina, led by the Rev. William J. Barber.

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Horror in the Bronx: How They Could Have Done It

Mark Olmsted | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Catholic Church, Misogyny, Tea Party, Anti-Gay Violence, Teapublicans, Bronx, Criminal Justice System, Baptist Church, Rascism, Homophobia, Prisons, Carl Paladino, Politics News
Mark Olmsted

In part, the events in the Bronx are a symptom of this trickle-down fear. It remains to be seen if this ugly virus spreads further or, perhaps, is instead serving to immunize the host.

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CDOT Turns Nazi Adopted Highway Stretch In Brighton Over To Baptists

9 News | Dan Boniface | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Adopt a Highway Program, Brighton, Baptist Church, Colorado Department of Transportation, Neo Nazi, Denver News

DENVER - The Colorado Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday that due to an error in processing an Adopt-A-Highway contract, a Nazi group...

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Obama Speech Addresses Homophobia, Anti-Semitism Among Black Americans

New York Observer | Jason Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Xenophobia, Martin Luther King Jr., Homophobia, 2008 Campaign, 2008 Elections, Baptist Church, Politics News

In a speech today at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.served as pastor, Barack Obama talked about the existence of i...

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