re: Why have churches started allowing gay preachers?

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Why have churches allowed divorced ministers?

Divorce is allowed on the grounds of adultery.

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I’m “Bible Church” but we don’t allow divorcee marriages to take place in the church but they can attend and teach Sunday School.

They can’t lead ministries or small groups.

We had one incident where a minister’s wife cheated on him left the church. He refused the divorce. She solely left because she wanted to marry a rich doctor and had no fault with him. Eventually he had to accept terms of the divorce. They left him come back and minister and he married a widow. Gone now.

Im not thrilled with it but did have some compassion on the incident.

I don’t ever want to be an a-hole about it but if you cheat or get divorced (even it wasn’t your fault or you reconcile,) there is full forgiveness of that and you can be a thriving member of the body but you’re out on leadership permanently.

I have a lot of knocks on the Baptist church but they do have official “letters” and if you cheat/divorce/have habitual sinful behavior that is noted and passed along to your new church.

Growing up we would contact churches where people were coming from and they would say “he’s unrepentantly cheating on his wife and left our church” and we’d decline to let him join although he could attend.