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“Jimmy Carter Supports Homosexual Rights, Saying Jesus Didnt Discriminate Against Anyone”
by wayoflife.org   
October 3rd, 2014

Jimmy Carter, Baptist Sunday School teacher and former U.S. President, spoke out recently in favor of homosexual rights in churches. He said, “I never knew of any word or action of Jesus Christ that discriminated against anyone. ... I’m a Baptist, and I believe that each congregation is autonomous and can govern its own affairs. So if a local Baptist church wants to accept gay members on an equal basis, which my church does by the way, then that is fine. If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn’t require them to” (“Jimmy Carter on LGBT Rights,” Religion Today, Sept. 25, 2014). The idea that Jesus would support homosexuals as church members is nonsensical. Jesus “discriminated” against every unrepentant sinner, warning that any sinner that does not repent will perish (Luke 13:3-5). Jesus discriminated between sinners who repent and sinners who don’t repent. As for sexual relationships, Christ taught that marriage is the only legitimate sphere for sex, and marriage is between one man and one woman (Mat. 19:3-6). That leaves no place for divinely-justified homosexual sex. Outside of the divinely-appointed sphere of holy matrimony, sex is called adultery and fornication. “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). Church membership requires the new birth. Some of the members of the church at Corinth had been “fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, and abusers of themselves with mankind,” but they had repented and been converted. “And such WERE some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Cor. 6:11).

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