The District of Columbia City Council has changed a proposed ordinance legalizing same-gender "marriage" to supposedly add protection for pastors. The ordinance was supported by a coalition of area clergy.
One of those clergy members, Robert Hardies of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Congregation, says the ordinance "ends harmful discrimination" against homosexual couples and at the same time "preserves the sacred rights" of his colleagues. Another pastor, Dennis Wiley of Covenant Baptist Church, says it "clearly protects clergy who disagree with me about marriage equality...." Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel, hopes the faith community is not fooled by the coalition known as D.C. Clergy United For Marriage Equality. "Well, this is just a cheap political stunt," he responds. "These are a group of leftist secularists essentially dressed up in the garb of clergy....[W]hat do you do call clergy who abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith and adopt instead the lies of the world? I call them counterfeit clergy." Barber adds that "they want to have their religion cake and eat it too." He explains. "They are going to push a leftist political agenda that runs completely counter to biblical principles," he asserts. "The ridiculous and oxymoronic notion of same-sex marriage flies in the face of every major world religion." The Liberty Counsel attorney turns to the Bible which asks what good is it for a man to gain the world yet forfeit his soul (Matthew 16:26).
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