Southern Baptists wrestle with gay hoax
(RNS) Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the
victims of a hoax in which a group claiming to be the denomination's
Executive Committee announced it had started to support gay marriage.
A website of the "Southern Baptist Convention of America" features a
"`welcoming and affirming' resolution on homosexuals" that it claims was
drafted by the committee in an "extraordinary emergency session."
The supposed resolution concludes that "the sanctity of marriage for
all unions joined in love under God's grace is holy and should receive
marriage rights by the Southern Baptist ministry regardless of sexual
orientation."
