SBC Pastor Joel Rainey Argues ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ Laws Should NOT be Overturned
The Southern Baptist Convention continues on its path to downgrade at breakneck speed, with a recent post by Joel Rainey of Covenant Church in Shepherdstown, WV, demonstrating what it looks like when company men commit themselves to cutting the brakes.
Responding to a post from William Wolfe listing some things that should be done to restore the American family- ending no-fault divorce, ending abortion, reducing access to contraceptives, requiring men to provide for their children, ending “sex education” in public schools, ending surrogacy and overturning Obergerfel, the 2015 case that said same-sex marriage was a constitutional right- pastor Rainey pushed back on the latter point, saying that he does NOT believe Obergerfel should be overturned.
Rainey believes doing so would “invalidate” all the “economic supports” built into so-called “same-sex marriage” and would “bring harm to already established unions” that the courts have already “legitimized.”
He does not see legitimizing “same-sex marriage” as a catalyst that lubed up the slipperiest slope of all but rather an unfortunate court decision that, nevertheless, should be supported and upheld.
Thankfully, this garnered Rainery nearly universal condemnation, including analogies to slavery and asking how his logic would apply if the government legalized marriage between an adult and a nine-year-old.
Rainey doubled down, however, hell-bent on taking the SBC towards a dark path with even darker logic.
Rather than taking the view that Obergerfell is unconstitutional and will go down in history as the ‘Dred Scott’ of its era, Rainey wants “same-sex marriages” to be legally entrenched in our society, with all the harm that has done and will continue to do. This is an SBC pastor we’re talking about.
Onward we speed.
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If the powers that be are ordained of God, and that for the purpose of punishing evil and rewarding good, then they would NECESSARILY have to outlaw gay “marriage”.
It’s good that things like no-fault divorce and contraceptives are being brought up because normally those discussions are not initiated by conservatives. Yes, if they’re backed into a corner most conservatives will say they’re bad (or at least have undesirable societal consequences) but in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, conservatives did themselves a great disservice by limiting the “sanctity of marriage” to heterosexual couples but didn’t seem to really care if those couples were faithful to their marriage.
The thing on William Wolfe’s list that should be a red flag to Christians is the “Require men to provide for their children as soon as it’s determined the child is theirs” which is troubling because it legitimizes the illegitimate “child support model” of the family instead of the Biblical model which is marriage. It takes two to tango and embracing illegitimacy as a positive policy change to “restore the American family” is completely asinine and provides a cash incentive for women to become baby mammas.
In the 1960’s, welfare known as “Aid to Families with Dependent Children” was available only to women who had been married. If they were later widowed, abandoned, or divorced, did not affect their eligibility for this welfare. However, in 1968 the SCOTUS determined that it was unconstitutional to exclude unmarried women with illegitimate children.