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Kentucky Equality Federation responds to the University of the Cumberlands
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Contact: Public Relations Team
(877) KEF-5775 - Ext 1 (office)
As requested by
reporters, Kentucky Equality Federation today
released the following statement regarding the
University of Cumberlands rejecting assistance
from the Broadway Baptist
Church.
The
Broadway Baptist Church Chapel Choir, a high
school group that has toured the nation and
England on concert and mission trips, has been
told that it is not welcome to perform and work
in a Kentucky Baptist mission program.
The news came just before the group was to
depart for its annual summer mission trip — and
a week after the Southern Baptist Convention
severed its ties with the Fort Worth church
because of what leaders called a lenient stance
on homosexuality.
The choir was informed by letter Monday that it
was "uninvited" to participate in the Mountain
Outreach program at the University of the
Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky. Officials of
the school, which is affiliated with the
Southern Baptist Convention, declined to
comment Wednesday.
STATEMENT FROM KENTUCKY EQUALITY FEDERATION PRESIDENT JORDAN PALMER:
The only people who will lose are those at the University of the Cumberlands and the citizens of the Commonwealth since a group of people cannot participate in the school’s Mountain Outreach program, which builds houses for disadvantaged people in the region.
PERSONAL STATEMENT:
As a practicing Christian, I must leave you with the following passages as an individual, and not as president of Kentucky Equality Federation. I get so tired of various churches turning religion against the LGBTI community.I accept all forms of religion that are based on love, and it is not my intention (or place) to force a religious belief on anyone, but many in the LGBTI community continue to believe that they cannot be religious because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and that must be challenged because it simply isn't true. I'm sure the Broadway Baptist Church also hold the following passages close to their hearts :
John
4:20: If a man say, I love God, and
hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that
loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God whom he hath not seen? The scripture is
not just talking about our natural brother, it
is speaking about our brothers and sisters in
Christ. That is a powerful statement, but the
Word says it. We cannot just agree with some of
God's Word. If we do not agree we are commanded
to do it anyway, because we are God's Children.
Matthew
22:36-40: "Teacher, which is the great
commandment in the Law?" Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the greatest commandment, and
the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments
hangeth the whole law, and the
prophets.
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