By Mark Singer | WASHINGTON DC -- Matt Comer, the executive editor of North Carolina based QNotes, published a press release from an LGBTQ advocacy coalition today calling on the Southern Baptist Convention, which is having its annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona next week, to apologize for the harm that their messages of intolerance and religious bias have caused the LGBTQ community over the decades.
The press release was issued by GetEQUAL, a national, direct action lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization. Also participating was Faith In America, a nonprofit educational organization created in 2005 to effectively counter-message the bigotry, prejudice and hostility toward the LGBT community being sold to the public for several decades under the guise of religious belief and religious teaching. The effort was joined by Truth Wins Out, a non-profit organization that fights anti-gay religious extremism.
Excerpt from QNotes:
“Given the arc of justice and the trajectory of history, there is no doubt the SBC will offer a full-fledged apology to the LGBT community in the future,” reads a letter that petition signers will send to SBC’s leadership. “We ask the Southern Baptist Convention to prayerfully consider whether the motive behind the mistreatment and harm toward LGBT individuals, especially youth, is born of political gain and agendas rather the spirit of Christ.”
Read the entire release here: [ QNotes ]
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