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From the Washington Post:

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon a couple of years ago, we entered the sanctuary at Covenant Baptist Church and took our places in front of the altar, just as we had countless times before in our more than 20 years as partners in ministry. We had been united in holy matrimony ourselves in the same spot where we now stood to unite others.

As the couple walked down the aisle, we recalled the previous evening’s rehearsal, when we commended all the participants for their courage and prayed that God would be in our midst at the ceremony. When we pronounced the couple “partners for life,” we felt our prayers had been answered. It was the same feeling we had experienced so many times before when asking for God’s blessing of the union of a man and a woman. Only this time, the union was of a man and a man.

Our church is the first and only traditional black church in the District of Columbia to perform same-sex unions. We conducted our first two union ceremonies, one gay and one lesbian, in the summer of 2007. The rapid political developments that followed in our nation and our city have made us optimistic that by the summer of 2010, same-sex nuptials will be not only blessed by churches such as ours, but also sanctioned by law in the District.

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    Whooo hooo!! Way to go!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mahogany_goodies06/ mahogany_goodies06

    God did not make it to be Adam and Anthony or Eve and Evonne. These being two Pastors they should have known better but that just shows that not everybody who says they believe in God really do. I cant believe they think God is in that relationship. Im not judging because thats not my job God doesnt hate the man he hates the sin and im nowhere near better then God so im not about to judge but yall know yall wrong.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/corneilusgreen/ corneilusgreen

    God will deal with homosexuals himself. its an abomination. DC will be destroyed. I don’t like Adrian Fenty. I dn’t consider him as mayor. the pastors might as get ready to go to HELL. Thank God for his word and don’t let f****ts and dykes desecrate it

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Fly098/ Fly098

    I agree that gay people need to be in church like all of us do. We all need the blood of Christ over our lives to help us walk in the Spirit and not according to the lust of the flesh. At the same time, the gay agenda is a very bold one. The Bible speaks expressly about homosexuality and marriage. And they have the nerves to call the church COVENANT BAPTIST?! Marriage is a COVENANT between MAN, WOMAN, and GOD. The Bible says in Genesis 2:23-24 that the man said WOMAN was Bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh and later says that for that reason a man would leave his father and mother and Cleave to his WIFE!!! WIFE!!! WIFE!!!!. Not man leave his parents and cleave to his husband or lifetime partner of the same gender or woman leave her parents and cleave to her partner of the same sex. The Bible says that Homosexuality is one of those lusts of their heart that God gives them over to when they continue to do as they please. Romans 1:21-28 (v26-28 are the key reference). It says that they gave up their knowledge of God as well! Read it for yourself.

    Why do I bring all that up? Because this is not just about gay people. This is about the Church and God’s word and gay people in the church trying to make it so that homosexuality is not looked at as a sin and also profaning Marriage which is a sacred covenant! When our pastors allow gay marriage in the CHURCH, there’s something wrong! Once again, I’m not saying gays shouldn’t be in church. They need the Word of God like we all do. But their agenda is to infiltrate and break down the church from the inside out and to be inclusive, pastors are watering down the gospel and letting them. THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS!!! TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE AN EAR TO HEAR…HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS SAYING! THESE OUGHT NOT BE SO!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Msladyk45/ Msladyk45

    AMEN, Bro. Fly098. You have said it all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Monte_Brown/ Monte_Brown

    Oh God. Kill the self rightious indignant hypocritical bulls**t. Stop it with this ” blood of Christ” nonsense. Jesus Christ was a gay vampire ritual canibalist. Jesus told dudes to eat him and to drink his blood. The only reason Judas betrayed Jesus is because Jesus found another lover, that woman, Mary Magdeline. Shakespeare wrote many Sonnets about his lover leaving him for a woman. S**t happens. In fact Steely Dan wrote a song about it too, “Dr Wu”. Great song.

    I don’t care too much about marriage period, but I would not go against gay marriage. I just think there are more important issues to deal with today. Forget about it.

    The Christians need to shut the f**k up about the gay issue because most pastors and members of the ministry are gay men in denial. Those are the worse kind, the self loathing kind. F**k the Bible. It was written by a white man. How could any rational person go to white people to find divinity? These people have killed and stolen all of their lives. They have sucked the life out of many people. No white man can help me find God, if there is one.

    Stop going to church. It is a waste of time and money. Stop believing that hateful stuff. Mostly everything in the Bible is a crock of s**t and there are still idiots who absorb that nonsense like sponges.

    Gay people should put gay marriage on the backburner and focus on AIDS research first. A cure for AIDS would diminish the hateful rhetoric of the Christian idiots and would make gay marriage more ascertainable.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Monte_Brown/ Monte_Brown

    … and Fly098, shut the fug up, you babbling idiot. You know damn well you are gay. Come on out.

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    @corneilusgreen – Please. America was built on Slavery, Sex, Theft, Homosexuality, Murder etc and it’s still here doing quite well! If that is the case then ALL AMERICANS would of been resigned to hell a long time ago, back when we invaded Korea, or Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan etc, etc. But no everything is fine.

    On top of that no one follows the Bible anyway, if we all followed the Bible then we would all be living like the Taliban! But we don’t! Americans pick out of the Bible what they want to follow. People don’t like that people are Gay so they pull that out. But when you say “Well the bible says woman cant be preachers and are not supposed to even talk in church unless married and their husbands speak for them” Oh well then people tell you that you took that part out of context?? Whatever, people are full of sh_it! If you don’t like it then don’t worry about it. You not the gay person, then you not affected by it anyway!

    I am not Gay and I really don’t care, I am just sick of people making it a big damn issue like the world is coming to an end! Let who ever wants to marry, marry. Then you wont hear about it anymore and we can all move one.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jack_Stephen1/ Jack_Stephen1

    f’n holy rollers! they’re the worst.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Queen09/ Black_Queen09

    “Monte_Brown” YOU NEED TO STOP TELLING GOD”S PEOPLE TO SHUT UP… DON’T YOU KNOW THAT GOD SAID… WE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD… FIRST OF ALL I AM OF GOD’S HOUSEHOLD… AND I DON’T EXCEPT MAN MADE LABELS AT ALL… WE ARE HERE TO SPREAD OUR FATHER’S WORD… WHETHER YOU LIKE OR NOT… BECAUSE I REFUSE TO BE PART-TAKER OF HOMOSEXUALS SIN… (YOU BECOME A PART-TAKER WHEN YOU SIT BACK… AND SAY NOTHING WHEN YOU KNOW THAT IT IS AN ABOMINATION IN GOD’S EYE SIGHT)… NOW HERE’S THE BOTTOM LINE… WE CAN TALK ABOUT THESE WORLDLY THINGS… UNTIL WE ARE ALL BLUE IN THE FACE… BUT THE TRUTH STILL REMAINS THE SAME… WE HAVE TO ELIMINATE THE ORIGINAL SOURCE… HERE IS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS… “IT IS SIN”… PLAIN AND SIMPLE.. WE WOULDN’T HAVE HIV/AIDS… IF MAN HAD NOT STARTED SLEEPING WITH EACH OTHERS… WHICH IS AN ABOMINATION IN THE EYE SIGHT OF GOD… WORTHY OF DEATH… AND IF HETEROSEXUALS HAD NOT VENTURE OUT… HAVING SEX WITH DRAG QUEENS AND OTHER MEN… THEREFORE CREATING A WHOLE NEW BREED OF GAY PEOPLE… KNOWN AS BI-SEXUALS AND BRINGING IT BACK… TO THEIR GIRL FRIENDS AND WIVES… SPREADING THE DISEASE EVEN MORE… AND DON’T LEAVE OUT THE INFECTED BLOOD… THAT WAS DONATED TO THE BLOOD BANKS… WHICH ULTIMATELY MADE IT’S WAY INTO THE HOSPITAL OPERATING ROOM… AND INFECTED SOME UN-SUSPECTING INNOCENT PEOPLE… WHO UNDER WENT BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS DURING SURGERY… AND THESE PEOPLE… NOT EVEN KNOWING THAT THEY WERE INFECTED… ENDED UP SPREADING IT TO THEIR GIRL FRIENDS AND WIVES… LET’S NOT FORGET ABOUT THE DRUG USERS – PROSTITUTES – AND THE JOHNS SPREADING THE DISEASE AS WELL… AT THE SAME TIME THE VIRUS… IS MUTATING (MEANING IT IS CHANGING INTO NEW STRINGS ALL THE TIME)… “BUT HERE IS THE CURE… STARING US DEAD IN OUR FACES: IT IS TO STOP COMMITTING THE SIN OF FORNICATION… HETEROSEXUALS GOD GAVE US A WAY TO AVOID THIS SIN AND THE HIV/AIDS DISEASE ALL TOGETHER… HERE’S HOW WE DO THAT: FOR EACH MAN AND WOMAN… TO EACH HAVE THEIR OWN WIFE AND OWN HUSBAND… AND IF IT IS JUST THE HUSBAND AND HIS WIFE HAVING SEX… ONLY WITH EACH OTHER… THEN THEIR WOULD BE NO HIV/AIDS OR SEXUALS TRANSMITTED DISEASES LIKE: GONORRHEA AND ETC… NOW YOU MAY SAY THAT THE DIVORCE RATE IS HIGH SO BEING MARRIED DON’T WORK… THIS IS WHY MOST MARRIAGES DON’T WORK: IT’S BECAUSE MOST MARRIED PEOPLE ARE UN-EVENLY YOKE… GOD NEVER TOLD A MAN OF GOD… ARE A PERSON WHO IS TRYING TO GET THEIR LIFE RIGHT WITH GOD… TO GO OUT AND MARRY A JEZEBEL, A GOLD DIGGER OR A WORLDLY PERSON… (A WORLDLY PERSON IS A PERSON WHO CARES MORE ABOUT THE THINGS OF THE WORLD THAN GOD)… THIS MAKE YOUR MARRIAGE UN-EVENLY YOKE… AND THE MARRIAGE WON’T STAND… THEREFORE IT WILL END IN DIVORCE… THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO MARRY… A PERSON THAT IS EVENLY YOKE WITH YOU… A PERSON THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU… BECAUSE IF YOU AND YOUR WIFE IS EVENLY YOKE… THEN SHE WON’T CHEAT ON YOU… AND YOU WON’T CHEAT ON HER… THEREFORE YOUR MARRIAGE WOULD LAST UNTIL DEATH SEPERATED YA’LL…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Queen09/ Black_Queen09

    THERE IS NO SUCH THANG AS A GAY MARRIAGE IN THE EYE SIGHT OF GOD… IT’S AN ABOMINATION… HOMOSEXUALS HAVE CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIEE… SHAME SHAME SHAME THE DEVIL… REPENT WHY YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE…

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    All the gays are gonna kill themselves off anyways because they are all aware that they transmit HIV to each other….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NMACDC/ NMACDC

    Hello,

    @Black_Queen09: It is partaker not part-taker.

    People who are gay are not “partakers” in some lifestyle. They will tell you that they have always been gay – from birth. This is suggested in the recent data analysis from the CDC, which estimates that men who have sex with men (MSM) account for only 2% of the entire U.S. population.

    A press release from the National Minority AIDS Council on the analysis states:

    “The rate of HIV diagnoses among MSM is more than 44 times that of other men, and more than 40 times that of women. MSM syphilis infection rates are high as well; 46 times that of other men and more than 71 times that of women.” (See: http://tinyurl.com/ybwxcvc)

    These rates do not reflect some sort of sin; but the ignorance and fear of people like you. The stigmatization of homosexuality and people living with HIV/AIDS has created almost insurmountable barriers to prevention, treatment and care – especially in under-served communities that have needed them the most.

    You should not think for a minute; however, that HIV is a gay disease – or something happening only abroad. The CDC announced in August 2008, to little media attention, that new HIV infection were 40% higher in the U.S. than originally believed, with over 56,000 cases occurring in 2006 alone.

    In the late fall of last year, the World Health Organization announced that AIDS is the number one killer of women of childbearing age worldwide – almost all of whom contracted the disease through heterosexual contact.

    In the U.S., African American/Blacks account for over half of all HIV/AIDS cases – and over half of the AIDS deaths that occurred since the epidemic began in 1981.

    Most women living with HIV/AIDS in the country today are African American/Black and Latino. Like their counterparts abroad, they contracted the disease through heterosexual contact with straight men – not “men on the down low.” AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African American women of all ages, and is the number of killer of Black women aged 24-35.

    I think I will stop there; I’m sure it won’t make a difference to @Black_Queen09 anyway. But she and her friends should keep in mind that if there is an evil entity in the universe, surely it appreciates the work they’re doing to spread ignorance – and fueling HIV infections.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gene-Carl-Maquar/100002377162247 Gene Carl Maquar

    Black Queen09, it looks like you read your Bible and you are right on the money, Thanks

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