http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/06/19/southern.baptists.ap/
The denomination made a special plea to its more than 42,000 churches to befriend gays and help "liberate" them from homosexuality. Gay rights groups said the initiative promoted hatred. ... The denomination acknowledged the severity of the global AIDS crisis and expressed support for President Bush's $15 billion initiative to fight AIDS overseas. Bush addressed the meeting in a videotaped message calling the 16 million Southern Baptists "faithful servants" and asking God to bless them. The denomination also came out against distributing condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. Abstinence education programs that emphasize "a Biblical view of sexuality" would be more effective, they said. --- "Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of agreement in their teachings. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its side." - Celsus (2nd century C.E.) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
