Seems pretty hypocritical to me

This post pretty much originates from something Ashley told me several weeks ago. Awhile back, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a rule or law or declaration which effectively "banned" homosexuality if I remember correctly. Yet, there was an article on CNN talking about sexual abuse by ministers in the Baptist church. In this case they said they had no legal authority to form an independent board to investigate these crimes.

So I'm having a discussion with a guy online and he's basically agreeing with this. I wondered where the scriptural justification is for making homosexuality the #1 worst sin that can be committed. He never really answered me. But he said homosexuality was a sin (which I agree with if you're reading strictly from Christian theology standpoint). But he agreed because issues like murder and sexual abuse are against the law and gay marriage wasn't. I then pointed out the statement above not having legal authority to investigate and he agreed saying that Baptists are very decentralized and they can be part of a convention or remain independent.

I think that's an outrageous argument.

So even though they're decentralized they can band together to ban homosexuality. But when their own priests are molesting young children, they can't do anything because of legal issues? That's pretty disgraceful. The fact that some religious groups want to go around and condemn homosexual as being immoral and unnatural (although homosexuality seems to occur naturally in the animal kingdom) and scream non-stop about abortion being a 9/11 every day and being similar to the Holocaust, but then keep their Goddamned mouths shut when their own priests are hurting children who are trusted in their care, well if it doesn't make you mad, then you're not human.

Oh but the guy I was debating said they made a public statement in 2002 to discipline ministers that abused children and urged churches to cooperate with law enforcement. Of course the victims' rights advocates say that they are basically being stonewalled when they make any effort to confront the perpetrators. So that's all the Baptist Convention made. A goddamn public statement.