- Richard Land
Not surprisingly, the Southern Baptist Convention has approved a resolution opposing the repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell.”
Richard Land, president of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, told those attending the denomination’s annual meeting in Florida this week that repealing DADT would “destroy” the military, according to the Associated Press.
“I’m told that there will be massive resignations … if we try to impose this social experiment on our military forces when we’re in the middle of two wars.” Land says in a video from the meeting posted on the SBC website. “We will end up with a military that will have a higher than national percentage homosexual population rather than a lower than national percentage homosexual population, and it will lead to discord and disharmony in the ranks, and it will destroy the finest fighting force that the world has ever known.”
The Baptist Press notes that Land also talked about the church’s efforts to defend Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban.
The SBC resolution opposing DADT states that,”No government should implement standards or policies regulating the lives of military personnel based on nothing other than indulging sexual desires, however strong …”
Can’t churches lose their tax exempt status for attempting to persuade their congregations on a political issue, since the separation of church and state, of course? So if he’s behind a pulpit in a church (tax exempt, thanks to Uncle Sam) spewing his hate and attempting to sway voters, couldn’t that church no longer be considered “tax exempt”?
Churches cannot endorse political candidates because of their tax exempt status. But they can take stances on moral issues. I didn’t hear any “hate” in the SBC’s statement. Their intention is not to “sway voters”, but to teach people what the Bible says about life issues and affirm what the Bible teaches.
The bible was written by man for man. Get over yourself.
Their intention is to teach people what they think their Bible says about life issues and affirm what they think their Bible teaches. Although they think they speak for God they do not and they do not come between me and God.