Baptist Church Sued When Active Homosexual Barred from Wedding Party

[ruggerson]

An active homosexual? One who goes to the gym and gets out of the house?

I wonder if this church bans fat people and divorced people from wedding parties, as well.

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06031407.html


SARNIA/LAMBTON, March 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Observer, the local paper for Sarnia/Lambton Ontario, reports that the pastor of a local church is in hot legal water for his defence of Christian principles.

Tamara Bourgeois, 29, and Jerry Condie, 34, were to marry in June 2007 at Sovereign Grace Community Church and have told the Observer that they are considering legal action against Pastor Glenn Tomlinson when he refused to allow an active homosexual to be part of the wedding party.

Tomlinson said he believes that allowing an unrepentant homosexual in the ceremony is tantamount to sanctioning homosexuality. "I'm OK with a gay person attending in the congregation. We are all sinners," Tomlinson told The Observer. "But the key to me is that a gay man is standing up in an official capacity. If we allowed that, we'd be sanctioning something in the actual ceremony."

Sovereign Grace church bills itself on its website as a church that "believes, teaches, and rejoices in the historic doctrines of Christianity."

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