Kids Pay for U Cumberlands Stance Against Gays

For Christ's sake...

This from the Herald-Leader:

Texas church choir 'uninvited' by Ky. university

WILLIAMSBURG — The Southern Baptist Convention cut ties last week with a Texas church that doesn't adhere to the denomination's stance on homosexuality, and now the church's youth choir has been told it is no longer welcome to participate in a Kentucky Baptist mission program.

The Broadway Baptist Church Chapel Choir, made up of high schoolers, was informed Monday that it was "uninvited" to participate in the University of the Cumberlands' Mountain Outreach program, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

The Southern Baptist Convention voted during its national meeting in Louisville last week to sever ties with Broadway Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Texas, because it said the church did not adhere to the language in the denomination's constitution calling for churches not to "approve or endorse homosexual behavior."

The church drew criticism from some Southern Baptists after gay member couples asked that their portraits appear in a church directory. The church later published a directory without the family portraits.

University of the Cumberlands spokeswoman Daphne Baird said Thursday that officials at the school in Williamsburg declined to comment...