Groups call on SBC to apologize for treatment of gays

PHOENIX (ABP) – Six groups are joining to call on the Southern Baptist Convention to apologize for its treatment of gays.

A
new coalition announced plans June 8 to hand deliver a petition at next
week’s SBC annual meeting in Phoenix asking the nation’s second-largest
faith group to “end the harm it is causing the lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT) community by offering a sincere and heartfelt
apology.”

The petition
accuses Southern Baptists of promoting “discriminatory laws toward LGBT
Americans” and “expressions of stigma and hostility” toward LGBT youth
and their families. It targets specifically “dangerous, intellectually
bankrupt and scientifically debunked ‘ex-gay’ ministries.”